Howard Page, senior director of engineering at Clair Global has served as front of house engineer for top artists such as Sting, Phil Collins, Van Halen, Paul Simon, James Taylor and many more. We spent most of our time talking about His approach on tuning and optimizing large-scale concert sound systems, a recent article on ProSoundWebJim Yakabuski joins us as well this week for the third time as this topic of system optimization is also something he cares about greatly.We also spend some time on Howards history of consoles, with his transition from analog to digital along with his work on the Studer Vista 5 SR.Episode links:Mike Green music: https://mikegreen.bandcamp.com/Tuning & Optimizing Large-Scale Concert Sound Systems: https://www.prosoundweb.com/tuning-optimizing-large-scale-concert-sound-systems/The Signal To Noise podcast series on ProSoundWeb, sponsored by Shure and hosted by Live Sound/PSW technical editor Michael Lawrenceand pro audio veterans Kyle Chirnside / Chris Leonard (the hosts utilize Shure SM7B mics for the podcasts).