Inexperienced Sound Techs...

yeah no kidding... that's not really your job! It's often enough of a hassle getting just the band set up, let alone making sure all the cables/mics/DIs are where they need to be. It's unfortunate, but everyone has to get their start some time, I suppose. Hopefully he'll learn, and if you are playing again at the venue, just try and make sure that he's not your tech!

 

This pretty much sums it up...

 

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Now that's funny!

 

Seriously... who uses a 421 on axis?

 

Yup... nothing worse than the sound tech who has no clue what he's doing but insists on doing it his way anyway. Like the guy who came up and insisted that the master volume on my head was affecting his DI level to the board but said I could change the preamp (gain) to taste (when of course the exact opposite was true).

I had just gotten a super sweet sound dialed in too, and then he comes up and turns the gain down to almost nothing and the Master to 8. What a hiss-fest.

 

Everyone has to start somewhere, I guess, we all just would like to hope its not with us!
All you can do is hope to impart some knowledge on your newbish sound tech and hope he learns.

 

I remember my nightmare sound tech. I told him I played a mix fingerstyle, slapping and a bit of pick playing thrown in and I thought the guy knew what sound I was going for because he complimented me on how much he liked it a few shows before. Turned out he was just sucking up to get work because the sound of my bass that hit the house would make Bob Marley want to turn up the treble on it. Then he tried to tell me that the it would sound better when the club was filled.... oh my it was a long night to say the least. I don't miss those days when I think of it that way.