The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer

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Complete Show Notes: http://wp.me/p1sfi8-23K Interview with Brian Adler about good and bad of being a tour managing FOH engineer and how he lost his passion for audio in the recording studio and rediscovered it in concert sound. We discuss:

• Why getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to his career
• The benefits of working at smaller concert venues
• How to control your relationship with an artist (even if you work at a shitty club)
• One important demand you should make when taking tour managing gigs
• Staying healthy on tour
• Brian's industry secret for optimizing a sound system on tour ;)
• Brian's #1 trick for controlling stage volume
• How to give guitarists and vocalist plenty of volume on stage
• How to double a vocal channel at FOH for separate monitor control

And we answer these questions:

• Do the places you work affect your reputation?
• Should you go after tour managing jobs to get more audio work?
• What are the responsibilities of a tour manager?
• What's it like working at a museum?
• Where do you get the best burritos in San Francisco?

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