Show Time and Beyond
Whether mixing a show is as comfortable to the FOH engineer as slipping into a favorite coat, or whether the engineer is mixing one of their first shows and wound so tight with anticipation and anxiety they’d vibrate if anyone thought to test the theory and pluck them, the day of the show encompasses all the technical knowledge and skills that go into being a sound engineer, including but not limited to:
• the scientific understanding needed to know how to account for the ways people hear and deal with venue acoustics;
• the practical knowledge of how to prep for a show: how to keep organized, how to load and unload safely, how to keep track of priorities and processe;
• the social skills to deal with everyone from ...
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