Simon Lewis Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I was setting up an audio system for a national church conference at a local venue yesterday... The hirer had a volunteer mix engineer who was helping to set up. Also helping was a lady - perhaps in her late 50s.... Said lady happily plugged up the desk, ran NL4 cables, made a note of the amprack patching, worked through the stage plot/input list and cabled the mics. I was thinking that she was good as many of the professional audio people I work with! As we discussed the merits of inserting monitor and L/R graphics into the desk, she mentioned, "I used to design these things"... Turns out she had worked for Neve as a electronics design engineer, and (amongst other things) was responsible for introducing dBu instead of dBm to the UK Pro Audio community. It was one of those rare, priviledged moments when you meet someone who obviously knows a fantastic amount about signal path design, and it was made all the better for her humility and and sense of humour. So, don't dismiss the person who offers to help - you never know who they might be! Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 It does work both ways... We were doing a series of gigs last year, and the group had a guy who should have been even more experienced. But he seems to have lost track of what modern gear is capable of, resulting in me (with only about 2 years of live sound experience) having to show him how to reduce feedback with a delay unit. He was adamant that what they were trying to do was impossible without feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lewis Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 It does work both ways... Sure does.... but it's rarer to find the good people, and it hits you all the harder when its a pleasant older lady;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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