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<blockquote data-quote="Max Warasila" data-source="post: 98471" data-attributes="member: 3845"><p>Re: Ways to annoy a sound guy</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In high school, they give you DVDs with this problem. Usually, I would just copied to my computer, but the last show I had to do was right after my Dell took a dump (anything but a few latitudes from them are pieces of crap- another thing that pisses me off) so I was forced to use the house CD player. I still prefer CD audio if over the ROM any day, just personal preference.</p><p></p><p>To add something to the list: As a high school level technician, I was constantly tasked with both lights and sound for some Hindu dance group that came in every few months or so because they wouldn't pay for two technicians since I was able to do it by myself, even though I was constantly splitting my time and working my ass off to try and keep up when a dozen channels and half the lighting console had to be adjusted all at the same time (bear in mind these were ALWAYS busked shows for me without rehearsal or soundcheck- I got line check in before they arrived). Those gigs as a whole were pretty much a collection of everything that pisses a generic sound guy off. Pushy people without knowledge of our craft telling us what to do, and blaming us for all the problems they caused and then further changing the entire order of the show as you were going along without proper communication because the radios (crappy ones that were supplied by the group, actually) were filled with other languages of chatter.</p><p></p><p>At risk of appearing that I am blaming it on all Hindu dance groups generically- I dealt with another group that was forced to come to our school because the convention center they were supposed to be at had a structural failure the day before. They were perhaps the second best external group I'd ever worked with, regardless of how unprepared we all were due to the venue switch, though they did try to use lavalieres (all I had, sorry) as handhelds, much to my dismay, they were still good about it when I asked them not to continue it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max Warasila, post: 98471, member: 3845"] Re: Ways to annoy a sound guy In high school, they give you DVDs with this problem. Usually, I would just copied to my computer, but the last show I had to do was right after my Dell took a dump (anything but a few latitudes from them are pieces of crap- another thing that pisses me off) so I was forced to use the house CD player. I still prefer CD audio if over the ROM any day, just personal preference. To add something to the list: As a high school level technician, I was constantly tasked with both lights and sound for some Hindu dance group that came in every few months or so because they wouldn't pay for two technicians since I was able to do it by myself, even though I was constantly splitting my time and working my ass off to try and keep up when a dozen channels and half the lighting console had to be adjusted all at the same time (bear in mind these were ALWAYS busked shows for me without rehearsal or soundcheck- I got line check in before they arrived). Those gigs as a whole were pretty much a collection of everything that pisses a generic sound guy off. Pushy people without knowledge of our craft telling us what to do, and blaming us for all the problems they caused and then further changing the entire order of the show as you were going along without proper communication because the radios (crappy ones that were supplied by the group, actually) were filled with other languages of chatter. At risk of appearing that I am blaming it on all Hindu dance groups generically- I dealt with another group that was forced to come to our school because the convention center they were supposed to be at had a structural failure the day before. They were perhaps the second best external group I'd ever worked with, regardless of how unprepared we all were due to the venue switch, though they did try to use lavalieres (all I had, sorry) as handhelds, much to my dismay, they were still good about it when I asked them not to continue it. [/QUOTE]
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