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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 81337" data-attributes="member: 277">Re: Mixing side of stage. How DO you deal with it?LOL!&nbsp;&nbsp; All of us started out that way, especially me! It is one of those things. Eventually most of us will learn to relax and let the band do their thing and enjoy the show. There are sometimes a few tweaks that need to be made as the crowd size or temperature changes, or as the band gets drunk and things like that, but for the most part ONCE YOU REALLY GET IT DIALED IN YOU CAN ONLY GO DOWN HILL. One of my favorite engineers I have ever worked with would get the sound abosolutely stellar in about 10 minutes, beyond belief good, and then proceed to mix it into oblivion and steadily go downhill and around in circles for the next hour. I finally started dragging him kicking and screaming away from the board to walk the room a little when I felt he reached that sweet spot. He eventually realized the board was not going to explode if he walked away for a minute and that the sound magically stayed good if it was already good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 81337, member: 277"] Re: Mixing side of stage. How DO you deal with it? LOL! All of us started out that way, especially me! It is one of those things. Eventually most of us will learn to relax and let the band do their thing and enjoy the show. There are sometimes a few tweaks that need to be made as the crowd size or temperature changes, or as the band gets drunk and things like that, but for the most part ONCE YOU REALLY GET IT DIALED IN YOU CAN ONLY GO DOWN HILL. One of my favorite engineers I have ever worked with would get the sound abosolutely stellar in about 10 minutes, beyond belief good, and then proceed to mix it into oblivion and steadily go downhill and around in circles for the next hour. I finally started dragging him kicking and screaming away from the board to walk the room a little when I felt he reached that sweet spot. He eventually realized the board was not going to explode if he walked away for a minute and that the sound magically stayed good if it was already good. [/QUOTE]

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