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From: Arny Krueger on 19 Jul 2008 21:31
"George's ProSound Company" <bmoas(a)yahoo.com> wrote in
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> "John O" <johnospamalot(a)lottaspamheathkit.com> wrote in
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>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote
>> in message news:4881C5FD.E61C6638(a)hotmail.com...
>>>
>>>
>>> Arny Krueger wrote:
>>>
>>>> Personally, the best thing yet I've read here is
>>>> George's claim that he can
>>>> train a live sound technician in a few minutes.
>>>
>>> The mind boggles. In a day perhaps (or with a really
>>> good candidate maybe half
>>> a day).
>>>
>>
>> FWIW, that claim didn't escape my notice either. I
>> develop technical training programs for a living, and
>> know exactly how to determine the time frame to train
>> for a given skill. Let's just say that in the context he
>> used, george is optimistic or he gets people with decent
>> tech skills at the start. ....ever try to explain
>> parametric eq to someone who doesn't have any grasp of
>> dB or the freq domain? What about groups or aux sends? I
>> have. Yeehaa!!! "A few minutes" requires either
>> prerequisites or teaching knob twiddling, there is no
>> in-between. BTDT.


> Running a nalouge mixing desk, say a Soundcraft lx 7 or
> mackie 1604 is hardly a challenge for even a complete
> newbie, once I explin the functions and tell them they
> have to listen and look I can not teach set up and troubleshoot, but basic
> mixing, under 10 minutes to a 14 yo kid, no problem

George starts back-pedaling.

At church, a live sound guy would be useless unless he can set aux sends for
6 monitors and work channels on 2 layers.


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