Where did yesterday go?

Things have been absolutely jam packed for me since my last post concerning sight lines at corporate events. Yesterday was a rather easy day audio wise, with the only points of stress on the day coming from having to drive all over the place. The event on Wednesday evening wrapped with great success and we received compliments from a very picky client on how well we covered the room. From that event I headed home to sleep for just a few hours before getting back on the road to D.C. for a morning focus group meeting I provide sound for every few months. A 7am load in let us get the meeting started at 8:30, we wrapped around noon and then packed up quickly and hit the road to get up north of Baltimore.

Arriving in Baltimore to help lend a hand to my good friend and sound company owner Andrew Roberts who is providing sound for a rather large and demanding church seminar program. Andrew, being into his third day on-site for this event had everything dialed in and well under control when I arrived despite the disorganized and often frantic nature of the program. We spent the rest of the day until around 10pm last night keeping track of a pile of wireless mic's and a remote feed that supplied sound coverage to an overflow room upstairs from the main room. The show wrapped around 10pm and we headed home for some much needed rest. Back up today at 5am to get back up here for the last day of the Church event. Although we had an early start this morning, the program will be wrapped by 11am leaving us plenty of time to load out and get home at a reasonable hour.

I want to finish up the topic I started on Wednesday concerning Sight Lines on corporate events. When working many corporate and/or political events, it is a regular occurrence to have someone who is completely unqualified as a sound person being the one telling you where to place your gear. This can be anyone from an event planner to the venue staff and they all have very strong opinions about where your gear should go. It is a rare occasion when one of these persons understands or even cares about the actual placement needs of your system, but they will all stand there and tell you what they think is best. So how do you accommodate these requests and still get the results YOU want? I find that with an open mind and plenty of time spent planning, you can make the best of even the most challenging events.

Set change time on this event: will post more after the break.