How do you handle challenges, pressure, and mistakes in Live Sound Engineering
Remember Chaitezvi addresses common questions about minimizing errors, dealing with pressure, and overcoming challenges in a live sound career.
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Managing Pressure And Mistakes In Live Sound. The speaker addresses common questions about minimizing errors, dealing with pressure, and overcoming challenges in a live sound career. They explain that mistakes are part of learning, but repeating the same mistake indicates a lack of seriousness. They emphasize the importance of focusing during the event and preemptively managing client and artist expectations to reduce pressure and increase the chances of a successful event.
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Many, many people also asking like, how do I minimize errors, you know, deal with pressure during events, and, and also overcome challenges, you know, like in my career? One thing about live sound is it is a high-pressure job. That is just the way it is. It is a high-pressure job. And, and, uh, in terms of challenges and mistakes, someone taught me you do something wrong the first time because you didn't know, that is called ignorance. You didn't know, but now you did it the wrong way. Now you learn the right way, so, so it's okay, you know. But then now you do something wrong the second time, right, but you know how to do it right, that one, it's a mistake, you know. It's okay, mistakes happen, you know. But you, you, you then do your best to do better next time. But you do the same thing wrong the third time, you're just not serious, you know. I'm like, this is something that someone taught me. And for me, uh, those things, they help me as I work as a live sound engineer. I know in the world of live sound engineering, an event starts at 2 in the afternoon, the event is going to be done at 9 PM. I know I just need to focus for this couple of hours, you know. So, so the ability to be able to focus when your event starts to when it ends, that in itself reduces the amount of mistakes you make, and it also reduces the amount of pressure you also face, you know. Because now imagine your show is not going well, clients are not happy, artists are not happy, At the same time, you're trying to run the actual event and people are constantly talking to you. You know, it makes it even harder, you know. So being able to preempt potential challenges or potential disasters before the event starts, whether it is communicating to the clients or artists the limitations of what you have so that they are— so that in a way you are basically managing their expectations. That is also very, very, very, very important, you know, so that, that way you, you minimize the amount of pressure that you're gonna face during the event, because that way now it also increases your chances to have a successful event as well. But, uh, basically that's it on that.
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