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<blockquote data-quote="Francesco Sgambellone" data-source="post: 19418" data-attributes="member: 347">Re: Speaking of VarsityI&#039;m going with no on this Dave. &quot;You get what you get&quot; keeps the regional sound companies regional. If you can&#039;t, at the very least, honor what you have sent out in paper, you deserve to have guys, &quot;who can&#039;t mix paint&quot;, burn your shit to the ground.&nbsp; Being a engineer does not make you a mixer and being a mixer does not make you an engineer. They are 2 varied skillsets and need to be thought of as such. I have had the pleasure and pain of having to deal with mixers who thought that playing with the pa drives was how they fixed thier mixes. And some other idiotic approaches to things such as basic system tuning, time alignment, fill systems, the list goes on. Just because you are a band mixer doesn&#039;t mean you know anything about the PA in front of you. Especially at a radio festival. If the sound vendor plants some guy who has no interest in the event or the idea that he should be helping the younger guys get a better result, he should promptly kill himself and let someone who will take over.&nbsp; On the other hand, there are a few system engineers who really are not good mixers. But are fantastic system engineers. It&#039;s a fine line between the two disciplines. There are few guys who are good at both. And mixing someone under the table? Really? This is an artform. You are bringing an artists vision to fruition, not facing a showdown at the OK corral. Relax. Have fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Francesco Sgambellone, post: 19418, member: 347"] Re: Speaking of Varsity I'm going with no on this Dave. "You get what you get" keeps the regional sound companies regional. If you can't, at the very least, honor what you have sent out in paper, you deserve to have guys, "who can't mix paint", burn your shit to the ground. Being a engineer does not make you a mixer and being a mixer does not make you an engineer. They are 2 varied skillsets and need to be thought of as such. I have had the pleasure and pain of having to deal with mixers who thought that playing with the pa drives was how they fixed thier mixes. And some other idiotic approaches to things such as basic system tuning, time alignment, fill systems, the list goes on. Just because you are a band mixer doesn't mean you know anything about the PA in front of you. Especially at a radio festival. If the sound vendor plants some guy who has no interest in the event or the idea that he should be helping the younger guys get a better result, he should promptly kill himself and let someone who will take over. On the other hand, there are a few system engineers who really are not good mixers. But are fantastic system engineers. It's a fine line between the two disciplines. There are few guys who are good at both. And mixing someone under the table? Really? This is an artform. You are bringing an artists vision to fruition, not facing a showdown at the OK corral. Relax. Have fun. [/QUOTE]

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