07/14/2026
I often say education is the most important tool in my gig bag: it's not true (it's actually a Qbox), but I like the quote because it reminds me that audio is an always striving effort to be be better at my gig.
A key part of that effort are workshops and formal training on the protocols that underlie our system architecture, such as this one by Dante (and co-presented by Yamaha Audio) the last couple of days at this new campus housing a dizzying array of elite contributors in the live music industry.
It's been the ideal place to reach maximum nerdiness while probing the depths of networked audio. Certainly the highlight was a deep discussion session with Goose FOH Eric Loomis (on right), fresh off tour and sharing the exacting details of his gear, methodologies and experience mixing what's likely the hottest jam-band on the planet. It's fair to say we absolutely ate it up, and didn't leave a single db of crumbs.
