Training

The fun part of our training now began. After the crew had set up their mock gig, I would send them away for ten minutes. Then I would proceed to unhook, miss-patch, swap a few cables with a special set I had that were not soldered in the connectors, change settings on the EQ's and compressors, and other amusing things.

Now when the crew came back from break they performed a second sound check. In this manner they got to learn all about trouble shooting in the most methodical manner ...

As the Sound Chief NCOIC of Marine Band San Diego it was my job to continually train/retrain myself as well as to train all new Marines on my crew. We had several big dang whiteboards that we would utilize. I would give out a reinforcement scenario and then the first board listed all the gear, cables, power center, etc that was needed. This board also gave specific assignments to members of the crew-FOH, MON, amps, mic's, main snake, gig liaison, etc. Some folks obviously might have more than ...