Sound Technician

Hey, my name's David and I'm a sound engineer.
I deal with all the live sound aspects of a concert.
Day-to-day would be putting up speakers and using mixing consoles to turn artists' instruments and voices up and down at a show; make things sound good at concerts. So this is a mixing console.
I'm getting ready for a Troy Kingi show.
I'll be on the side turning things up and down for him and the rest of his band.
For instance, if Troy needs to hear his guitar louder when he does a solo, I'll select him and turn his guitar up for him.
So you can hear it louder in that, in that particular part, we sort of do this a little bit in advance to make sure we're in the best position, when it comes show day.
One of the most important things is how to coil a cable. You'll do it a lot.
There's a lot of cables. You're under, over, under, over.
And it doesn't ruin the cable and go like a telephone line, all squiggly.
Keep the cables in good condition and packed away nicely. There's a lot of
physical parts, but if you're smart, you can get other people to do it.
I mainly work in the concert side of my job, but it's transferable to multiple things. You've got theatre shows, there's theatre tours, you've got film that even takes on sound engineers.
You've got whatever TV show you can think of that involves sound.
Corporate events. There's a place for everyone, for sure. I've always had a thing for live music. At school, I had friends in bands. I've, I've been in a band and I sort of fell into this by my careers teacher showing me that there's more to concerts than being in the band.
I studied a live sound course, for a year that taught me a lot of the basics, and so that was a year out of high school that got me in the door.
You don't need to do a course. You could show up at the front door tomorrow
and be prepared to, to learn and, and to work hard for a bit, and you'll be able to get where you want to get.
As long as you have an interest in making things happen and following
instructions, then you can get where you need to go. Favorite thing is not being in office
and, you know, face a new challenge each day. Yeah, we work with a bunch of fun people. Really.
Everyone s got a good sense of humor. We all like to work hard.
I think that s how we all ended up here.
It s enjoyable and it s hard work at the same time.