Sound Engineer Blues

This is what happened.

Years back I was front of house sound engineer for my church. I loved it but you always get picked on from critics from church.

“It’s too loud!”, “I can’t hear the singers!”, blah, blah, blah.

Having a tough skin is crucial when your the ” sound guy”. Learning from my experiences has led me to the point that you can’t please everyone and sometimes you also gotta learn to ignore others if necessary. I got some pointers to make sure your critiques are dumbed down as much as possible as long as your prepared. For all my sound engineering buddies.

Now if you follow these basic tips and make them your own.

Most likely your experiences will be a lot smoother. Keep an open mind but keep your guard up as well. You’ll soon get over the sound engineer blues!

I also got this cool tip on how to hook up a mic for your music director to communicate to the team. Click Here.

As always thanks for reading and I’ll see ya next time

Roland