The Monitor Guy Blog

I actually use tools and stuff while on tour. I've slimmed it down over the years, but these have all saved my bacon several times. This is also a shameless attempt to monetize my years of bad purchasing decisions. Some of the following will be Amazon affiliate links, which means if you click on an item here and eventually buy it, Amazon will send me a few cents. RF Stuff: RF Explorer: A very inexpensive scanner that you can import into your coordination software. https://amz

A few weeks ago I got a call that probably sounds familiar to a lot of engineers. "These frequencies worked yesterday." The implication, of course, was that something must be wrong with the equipment. The gear was the same. The coordination file was the same. The frequencies were the same. The RF environment was not. That's one of the hardest lessons for people coming into wireless audio. We naturally think of frequencies as fixed. If something worked yesterday, we expect it

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