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<blockquote data-quote="Kip Conner" data-source="post: 24995" data-attributes="member: 445">Re: Training young engineersI&#039;ve met several people like this I call brute force mixers, they are pretty decent at making the band sound good- but don&#039;t always know the science of how they get there. Ideally you want to be able to send someone on a show and they can handle it all. When I worked at the Fox in Atlanta I was surrounded by 50 year old sound guys who knew nothing about the rigs that came in except we push sound cases to this corner. That&#039;s what they do and there&#039;s a market for that kind of manual labor. You can&#039;t really keep them employed if they aren&#039;t going to be moving forward with with their own education. It&#039;s a tough call unless you have a need for box pushers. Most of us who are in this forum are dedicated to improving and learning on our own accord. While I consider the Yamaha book somewhat the bible for our field, it can be a little hard to read and comprehend. It was the only good periodical out there at the time I was coming up. Now there are several books that aren&#039;t as entailed, but better basic books. The bottom line is that if they haven&#039;t picked up anything in 2-3 years, they probably don&#039;t have any interest in continuing education.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kip Conner, post: 24995, member: 445"] Re: Training young engineers I've met several people like this I call brute force mixers, they are pretty decent at making the band sound good- but don't always know the science of how they get there. Ideally you want to be able to send someone on a show and they can handle it all. When I worked at the Fox in Atlanta I was surrounded by 50 year old sound guys who knew nothing about the rigs that came in except we push sound cases to this corner. That's what they do and there's a market for that kind of manual labor. You can't really keep them employed if they aren't going to be moving forward with with their own education. It's a tough call unless you have a need for box pushers. Most of us who are in this forum are dedicated to improving and learning on our own accord. While I consider the Yamaha book somewhat the bible for our field, it can be a little hard to read and comprehend. It was the only good periodical out there at the time I was coming up. Now there are several books that aren't as entailed, but better basic books. The bottom line is that if they haven't picked up anything in 2-3 years, they probably don't have any interest in continuing education. [/QUOTE]

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