10 Things a Sound Guy Wants You To Know

1. Don’t be a dick. Most audio guys are dicks and have control issues. If you walk in the door with a shit attitude, your day is fucked.

 

2. Don’t make a mess. Nobody wants to shove your empty cases into a corner 5 minutes before doors, or clean up your Starbucks cups and water bottles with two sips out of each. 

 

3. Be nice to the staff at the venue. Don’t tried to bang the servers.

 

4. If you are Corey Feldman and you let your dogs run around in the venue and the shit on the floor, clean it up, motherfucker. 

 

5. Soundcheck is what you do at the gig, to set levels for the performance. Rehearsal should be on your own time. If you want to go through your entire set and cause the tech staff to miss dinner, you are a piece of shit and you should give the monitor and FOH techs $50 a piece. 

 

6. Don’t send your girlfriend or wife to FOH to “help” the sound guy. If she’s so smart, have her mix the fucking show. 

 

7. If your group is carrying engineers, know that management approved the installed PA, and if you don’t like it, talk to your guy. 

 

8. Your manager okayed slashing the catering budget by 60%. 

 

9. Your manager agreed that three house techs and a security guard would be ok, instead of the 6 stagehands, requested. 

 

10. If you’re on you’re way up, there’s a 99% chance that you’ll be here again, on your way down. We can be enemies or old friends.