Rockin' Your Stage Sound is designed to help musicians understand what they will be facing onstage during a performance and how they can best use their gear in service of the overall sound. Combining the observations of a professional live-sound engineer with the perspectives of 40 successful players such as Bobby Rondinelli (BLUE OYSTER CULT/RAINBOW), Dug Pinnick (KING'S X), Nick Menza (MEGADETH), David Garfield (GEORGE BENSON), Mitch Perry (MSG), Jaime St James (BLACK n' BLUE), Bjorn Englen (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), Frankie Banali (QUIET RIOT) and many others, the book provides a wealth of tips and viewpoints unique to live-sound tutorials. Fast-paced and easy to read with multiple illustrations and diagrams, Rockin' Your Stage Sound offers conventional and radical approaches to solving stage problems and gives musicians multiple strategies for achieving the best sound in any venue. Rockin' Your Stage Sound is a book that arms musicians with all the knowledge they need. A very useful, detailed and thorough guide for any performing musician. --m-magazine.co.uk/reviews/rockin-your-stage-sound-rob-gainey/ Rockin' Your Stage Sound is an important book that gigging musicians and engineers should check out. --premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2011/May/Book_Review_Rockin_Your_Stage_Sound_A_Musicians_Guide_to_Professional_Live_Audio_By_Rob_Gainey.aspx One would probably never think of an audio guide as being a thrilling page-turner, but here's one that is exactly that; Rockin' Your Stage Sound is an engaging, well-crafted book. --allaccessmagazine.com/2011/04/21/rockin%e2%80%99-your-stage-sound/ In short, Rockin' Your Stage Sound is a smart, useful book for any rock musician starting to swim in the pro or semi-pro waters, and likewise, it's an illuminating read for beginning to intermediate audio pros entering the world of rock club sound for the first time. prosoundnetwork.com/Default.aspx?tabid=69&EntryId=268 Rob Gainey is a Los Angeles-based live-sound engineer and author. A native of Greenwood, South Carolina, he began playing guitar and bass professionally at age 17 and soon began focusing on live sound, which has been his specialty for over 25 years. He has mixed dozens of national acts in Los Angeles' top showcase venues.