COVID-19
RESOURCES + Media:
AN ONGOING LIST

Dear Women in Sound community,
We are standing with everyone who is experiencing the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is an ongoing list of free and discounted educational resources, software licenses, webinars, online courses, and enjoyable media for these uncertain times.

We will update regularly. Please reach out to info@womeninsound.com with your additions. We would love to hear from you.

If you are not experiencing loss of income right now, please support your favorite artists + audioworkers by purchasing their music and merch or donating to relief funds in your area.

Love,
Madeleine + Maggie
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Lectures &
WEBINARS:

AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING:

TOURING INDUSTRY
• SoundGirls: Intro to TM/FOH, Part 1 of 3

• SoundGirls: Intro to TM/FOH, Part 2 of 3: Pre-Tour Organization, Creating a Budget and Advancing

• SoundGirls: Intro to TM/FOH, Part 3 of 3: Day of Show

• Backstage Productions + Pollstar: The Show Must Go On - Live Event Town Hall

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 1 - Introduction to Tour Managing and the Touring Industry

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 2 - Roles, Titles and the Touring Family Tree

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 3 - Building the Tour

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 4 - Advancing the Tour

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 5 - Budgeting

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 6 - Logistics

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 7 - Travel

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 8 - Day of Show

• tourmgmt.org Touring 101 Ep. 9 - Settlement

• The Production Academy: No Live Music During a Pandemic - How the Touring Industry is Affected by the Coronavirus - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 1

• The Production Academy: Tour Management and FOH Audio Together - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 4

LIVE SOUND
• SoundGirls.org: El Sonido y sus profesiones aplicadas
feat. Ximena Montenegro, Roberta Siviero, Marina Bello, Andrea Arenas y Caro Anton

• Adamson Systems: Festival Week, Vol. 4 - The Mix
feat. Maxime Brunet, Victoria Butash, Ayumi Hanano, Meegan Holmes, Rena Kozak, Freyja Lawson, Jade Payne

• Sennheiser Sound Academy: RF Basics

• Audinate: Designing and Managing the World’s Largest Single-Room Speaker System at the Royal Albert Hall

• Laura Escudé: ENVISION - Design Your Dream (Online) Live Show - Day 1

• Laura Escudé: DESIGN - Design Your Dream (Online) Live Show - Day 2

• Laura Escudé: PERFORM - Design Your Dream (Online) Live Show - Day 3

• The Production Academy: Getting Started in Small Clubs - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 2

• The Production Academy: Mixing in Large vs. Small Venues - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 3

• The Production Academy: Phase Aligning Inputs and Understanding the Mix - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 5

• The Production Academy: The Role of Audio Companies in Touring - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 6

• The Production Academy: Mixing IEMs - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 7

• The Production Academy: Microphone Technique and Audio Teams - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 8

• The Production Academy: Mixing the Big Gigs - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 9

• The Production Academy: FOH Workflow and FX - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 10

• The Production Academy: Mixing Pre-recorded Tracks in Live Music - The Pandemic Sessions, Part 11

• L-Acoustics 101
- L-Acoustics Workflow
- Soundvision Basics Update
- A Series
- Line Source Behavior and Optimization

• Rational Acoustics: Smaart Operator Fundamentals Online, Lessons 1-8

• Shure Wireless Workbench Training: Basic Setup and Coordination

• Adamson Systems Blueprint AV software overview, Part 1

• Adamson Systems Blueprint AV software overview, Part 2

• Adamson Systems: Blueprint AV software - Building an Arena

• Adamson Systems: Blueprint AV software - Room Design for Install

• Adamson Systems: Blueprint AV software - Design Techniques

• D&B ArrayCalc Training, Part 1
- You may need to hit “pause” and start from the beginning.
- Quick primer video for beginners: What is Array Processing?

• D&B ArrayCalc mini tutorials

GEAR + STUDIO SOUND
• SoundGirls.org: Post Production Surround Sound
feat. Leslie Gaston-Bird, Ai-Ling Lee and Paula Fairfield

• Moog x Femme House: The Art of Synthesis - Live on Moog’s YouTube Channel
- What exactly is synthesis? How do synthesizers work? Why do we use them for music?

• Waves Audio: Mastering Masterclass with Piper Payne

• Waves Audio: Better Audio for Content Creators

• Women’s Audio Missions: Intro to Digital DJing

• Nuts and Bolts: Gear & Marginalisation - Ale Hop, Sihtx, Sukitoa O Namau and Jessica Sligter

• Women’s Audio Mission: Home Studio 101 with WAM Executive Director Terri Winston

• Welcome to 1979: Q+A in Quarantine: Vinyl Mastering

• Welcome to 1979: Q+A in Quarantine: Live to Vinyl

• Welcome to 1979: Q+A in Quarantine: Studio Tech

• Leapwing Audio Talks: Bob Katz

• Apogee Masterclass with Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple): How to Produce a Debut Artist

• Apogee Masterclass with Laura Escudé: Live Looping Techniques with Ableton and Apogee Plugins

THEATER + SOUND DESIGN
• Association of Sound Designers: Seminar Archive

• SoundGirls and Modern Projects, Inc: Theater Sound Production Webinar

FOR PERFORMERS/ARTISTS
• Vimeo: How to plan a virtual event: Vimeo’s live production experts tell all

• Artists in a Time of Global Pandemic

• LatheCuts: Tax Deductions for Musicians, Artists and Side Hustlers

• Women’s Audio Mission: Intro to Digital DJing

• Women’s Audio Mission: Intro to Synths

• Women’s Audio Mission: Fireside Chat with Linda Perry

MISC.
• SoundGirls: Paying Yourself First - How to Financially Plan for Your Future

• SoundGirls: What Makes You Stand Out?

relevant articles:

• Recording During the Coronavirus Pandemic - Transom.org

• How to Improve Live Streaming Audio without Overcompressing - Waves Audio
- most relevant to those who use Waves plugins

FREE DOWNLOADS + SOFTWARES LICENSES:

Digital Audio Workstations + Composition
• Ableton Live 10 Suite free 90-day license

• AVID Pro Tools Ultimate free 90-day license

• AVID Media Composer Ultimate free 90-day license

• AVID Sibelius Ultimate free 90-day license

• Logic Pro X free 90-day license

• REAPER free temporary license

• QLab - industry standard for sound design and cue-based playback

• A Sound Effect: Audio Community Power Pack

• Sonido Software License for Audio Professionals - free for 30 days
- to help studio businesses work on building their business during this time when many are temporarily closing their doors

Plug-ins:
• Valhalla DSP Supermassive

• Izotope Vinyl

• AVID Plug-ins Free Trial

Theater
• Stage Research: SFX 6 Deluxe, Show Builder, RF Guru, RF Scanner

Instruments
• Automatonism: Making Music with Self-Playing Machines

• VCV Rack: Virtual Eurorack DAW

• Native Instruments Analog Dreams: Analog sounds from vintage synths of the ’70s, ’80s, and beyond

• Moog Minimoog Model D iOS app - free for iPhone and iPad only

• Korg iKaossilator app - free for iOS and Android

Video Editing
• Final Cut Pro free 90-day license

LEARNING APPS

• Quiztones ($4.99 USD)
- “Train your ears and improve your mixes with Quiztones frequency ear training apps for audio engineers, producers and musicians.”

ONLINE Lessons AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Live Sound
• Sound Design Live: Avoid RF Dropouts Through Proper Gainstaging

• Gain Media Lab: Guerilla Mixing on Digital Consoles

• DPA Microphones Mic University

• AVIXA Online Training - Free Through June 12

• AVIXA CTS (Certified Technology Specialist) online training courses:
- Getting Started with Dante 8-part video training series
- Principles of Digital Audio (3 CTS credits)
- Dante Certification Program (Levels 1, 2, 3)

• The Production Academy: Live Sound Training

• Harman Core Curriculum:
- Six-part series where students are tested on general Professional AV Industry knowledge

Synthesis
• Syntorial: A New Way to Learn Synthesis
- Free demo includes the first 22 (out of 199) Essential Lessons.

• Learning Synths - Ableton
- Ableton software NOT required!

Recorded Sound
• Cambridge Music Technology: Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio

• Lynda.com: Audio for Video Editors (1h 42m - beginner level)

• Lynda.com: Audio Mixing Bootcamp (8h 53m - beginner level)

• Lynda.com: Microphone Techniques - Essentials (1h 53m - beginner level)

• Lynda.com: Audio Foundations - Reverb (3h 5m - intermediate level)
* All Lynda.com courses are free for a one-month trial!

• Mix With the Masters free video series
- Many more videos available with membership!

Viewing + Event Streaming:

• Virtual Music Events Directory
- “My goal is to build a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for anyone seeking guidance on how to stage alternative music events in this moment of significant upheaval for the industry.”

• Audinate: The Art of the Streaming Mix for Houses of Worship

• Ways of Gathering in the Age of COVID-19
- “A guide to livestreaming of HowlRound TV”

• “Quarantine Soirees: Classical Music and Opera to Stream at Home”

• Metropolitan Opera Live Streams
- “All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30pm EDT and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. The homepage link will open the performance on the Met Opera on Demand streaming service. The performance will also be viewable on all Met Opera on Demand apps.”

• The Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall
- Redeem the voucher BERLINPHIL by March 31 and receive free access to all concerts and films in the Digital Concert Hall.

• Betty: They Say I’m Different
- “Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She ‘was the first…’ as former husband Miles Davis said. ‘Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince’.”

Books:

• Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
- “Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists.”
(Tara Rodgers, Duke University Press)

• Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques
- “Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques dares you to unlearn safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal!”
(Sylvia Massy, Hal Leonard Publishing)

• Sound Systems: Design and Optimization: Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment
- “Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides an accessible and unique perspective on the behavior of sound systems in the practical world.”
(Bob McCarthy, Focal Press)

• Women in Audio
- “features almost 100 profiles and stories of audio engineers who are women and have achieved success throughout the history of the trade. Beginning with a historical view, the book covers the achievements of women in various audio professions and then focuses on organizations that support and train women and girls in the industry.”
(Leslie Gaston-Bird, Focal Press)

• The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
(Alex Ross, Farrar Straus & Giroux)

• Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
- “The first book to explore the extraordinary career of musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, whose work combined classical rigor, avant-garde experiment, and madcap daring.”
(Joan Rothfuss, MIT Press)

• Intermediary Spaces
- “In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context.”
(Éliane Radigue + Julia Eckhart, Umland Editions)

• 33 1/3: The Raincoats
- ”In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, the Raincoats reinvented what punk could be.”
(Jenn Pelly, Bloomsbury Academic)

• Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear
- “an exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe”
(Steve Goodman, MIT Press)

• AUDINT - Unsound:Undead
- “tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead”
(edited by Steve Goodman, Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou, MIT Press)

• How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop
- “the history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon”
(Dave Tompkins, Stop Smiling Books)

• I’ll Never Write My Memoir
- “Iconic music and film legend Grace Jones gives an in-depth account of her stellar career, professional and personal life, and the signature look that catapulted her into the stardom stratosphere.”
(Grace Jones + Paul Morley, Simon & Schuster)

• Figures in Air: Essays Toward a Philosophy of Audio
- “Emerging artist and theorist Micah Silver elaborates on the impact of audio on human behavior and social space.”
(Micah Silver, Inventory Press)

• Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
(Cathy van Eck, Bloomsbury)

PODCASTS:

• The World According to Sound
- “a miniature audio show and surround sound event”

• Nuts and Bolts
- “interviews with female and non-binary artists about how gear has played a role in their work”

• Song Exploder
- “a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made”

• The Future of What
- “a podcast and radio show about the music industry hosted by Portia Sabin of Kill Rockstar Records”

• Twenty Thousand Hertz
- “a podcast revealing the stories behind the world’s most interesting and recognizable sounds”

• A Castle of Top of a Hill: The True Story of Fanny

• Cocaine and Rhinestones
- “a podcast about the history of 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us”

• The Trap Set
- “a podcast about the lives of musicians. Our first 200 episodes focused exclusively on drummers, and we’ve subsequently broadened our scope to include singers, guitarists, bassists, keyboardists, harpists, etc.”

• No Dogs in Space
- “a music history podcast featuring Marcus Parks and Carolina Hidalgo of the Last Podcast Network. On this first season, we're taking a deep dive into the history of punk rock, told through the stories of ten bands who helped define the genre”

• Roadie Free Radio
- “your VIP pass to the behind the scene’s of the music and film business”

• Sound Design Live - Podcast
- “Build your career as a sound engineer. The best tutorials, articles, and podcasts on pro audio technology and creative design.”

• New Sounds
- “Daily showcase of weird and wonderful music from artists, composers and traditional musicians — all gleefully oblivious of their genres.”

• Dolly Parton’s America
- “the story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars”

• The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo
- “Every other week, Aimee and Ted talk to friends across the creative spectrum to find out how they work.”

• Lost Notes
- “A collection of the greatest music stories never told. Music journalist and author Jessica Hopper takes the reins for season two.”