Yesterday I got to do something I rarely do: run sound at church. It's not that I can't, I'm just always doing something else [playing bass, singing, supervising our TV production crew, doing TV audio, MBWA (management by walking around)], etc.
Our PA engineer hasn't had a weekend off in a long time, and all of the other engineers we use were busy, so I got the call. Here are the pics:
From my vantage point to the stage:
And a little lower so you can see the console:
Here's a shot of this past weekend's lighting operator, George. He's a smooth Romanian who just became an American by marrying into the fold. Great guy.
Here's Jeff. This was his first weekend training on Presentation, and he nailed it on the first go-round. Welcome aboard Jeff!
On my other side was the other Jeff, my boss, the pastor of the church. He's a great singer, and big-time music lover, and he knows what sounds good. No pressure there!
By the way, he's playing shaker with a small tin of Altoids.
The Yamaha LS-9 is a GREAT little console. We just added some channels on the digital side with two Presonus DigiMax LTs (you can see them in the rack) running through an ADAT card. Our eight wireless mics sound amazing through the LTs, as do our eight tracks lines.
All in all, I thought things went pretty well. I got a few compliments, and no glaring looks.
That counts for something, right?
4 comments:
Oh, snap. Guess I wasn't important enough to get photographed this weekend.
Michael, I think you were busy tying your shoe.
Busy until I learned how to dodge the shoe untying fairy ;-)
Yeah ~ I didn't get in the pictures either and I was sitting in front of you! :)
Just wanted to comment to "throw you something!"
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