Valerie Gard

Germany/United Arab Emirates

Sound FOH ∙ Sound MON ∙ Stage Technician

I’m a highly experienced and ever progressing sound engineer and system technician. I have vast knowledge and experience in system engineering, FOH and Monitor engineering, network engineering (Dante or any other digital sound protocols). I have a lot of experience in different venues, open-airs, stadiums etc. I’ve done a lot of touring as FOH/MON engineer. I’m always trying to widen my horizons and keep up to date. I’m mobile and easy to move anywhere in the world. I’m just a huge audio nerd and feeling awesome about it .

Experience

• FOH mixing
• Desks and infrastructure support, networking knowledge
• System design, optimization and tuning, ability to work with different sound reinforcement systems (mostly d&b, but also L’acoustics, Meyer Sound, Clair) All the necessary software – ArrayCalc/R1, MappXT/Compass, Soundvision/LA Network Manager, Ease focus/Lake.
• Digico, Yamaha CL/PM series, Midas Pro series, Avid Venue, Allen&Heath professional user.
• Confident use and understanding of Dante technologies, troubleshooting. Dante certified trainer as well as the Level 3 certificate.
• Software development iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin in progress), WaveCalc sound calculator is available on AppStore
• Studio recording/mixing
• Master’s degree in sound-engineering with an average score of 5 (5-grade scale).
• Advanced English and intermediate German.

Contacts: https://valeriegard.com/ contact@valeriegard.com