Where hum actually comes from
Power distro, grounds, and the sixty-cycle tax. A field guide to the noise your rig makes when nobody is playing.
Firmware watch: RIVAGE PM V7.10 lands with two known issues
Three updates worth knowing about this week. One of them you might want to skip. Yamaha RIVAGE PM V7.10 RIVAGE PM firmware V7.10 is up on Yamaha's download page, and V7.00 has moved to the previous-versions list. The additions are modest. Shure SLXD4+ and
You can't hear it when it's right: compression from the first knob to the mix bus
The Woodshed. Weekly long-form, July 2026. For anyone on the crew who owns a threshold knob. Compression is the most-used and worst-understood processor in live sound. Every channel strip has one. Most engineers learned it by copying a screenshot of someone else's settings, and a
One resistor, one capacitor, and a knob that's lying to you: how an analog EQ actually works
Forget the mixing tips. This is the electronics: what really happens when you sweep a mid, why a Pultec can boost and cut the same note at once, and the op-amp cheat hiding inside almost every console built since 1970.
Four hundred channels and one piece of dirt: how festival RF coordinators actually do the math
What festival RF coordinators actually do: the tool stack, the advancing, the unspoken hierarchy, and the intermod math. Part 1 of 3.