I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at

podcast. Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast. Today we're going to give you

seven things not to do at a sound check. Wait, so if we don't do these things, then we'll sound

good? Well, if you don't do these things, you will survive the sound check and make it to the gig. Okay, well, then I'm all yours. Let's do this one. At a minimum of it. Okay. Okay. So the first one is, well, first of all, a sound check, let's just talk about what a sound check is. I mean, it's very basic. You're checking the sound. Right. So there's a purpose, you know, if there's a sound engineer and like a crew there, it's a chance for them to get the stage prepared, to really get the sound right, to basically prepare the environment for the audience. A lot of people think it's for the musicians only or for the sound engineer or for the crew, but ultimately it's the preparation of everything for the audience, I think. Yeah, that's right. I mean, you can use it to get an idea of how the room's going to sound, but oftentimes, you know, I don't know about you, but the room totally changes when an audience comes into it. Always. You have 250, 180 pound bags of water fill in those seats.

And so it changes naturally the dynamics of the room.

So it's really not the greatest place to like think this is how it's going to sound.

But you do want to get comfortable.

You want to make sure you can hear everything.

And hopefully these seven things will help you accomplish a good sound and so that you're comfortable on the performance.

Right, right. So number one is not listen, like it usually is, but it is don't be late.

This is a crucial mistake you see being made all the time.

I mean, you know what? You can come and screw a lot of things up at the sound check, but even to screw it up, you've got to be there on time in order to do that. So that's like kind of your minimum viable activity is just show up on time. Of course, you're going to want to show up to the gig on time too, but take the sound check seriously because, you know, if it's kind of a more minimalist gig where the band is doing the

sound and like preparing everything, it's really important to have that opportunity to do that

and to prepare things right. I mean, we always think like preparing the music and practicing

and playing great is the most important thing. But the reality of it is, especially for kind of different peculiar type venues, how it sounds

and how it looks is a big part of what it is.

And this is your opportunity to get that together.

Yeah, and you don't want to miss out on time that could be spent trying to get a good sound.

That's the most important thing for this performance.

You know, make it a priority

like you would a gig for the soundtrack and really use as much time as you can getting it

tweaked the best that it can be. Right. And that brings this to number two, and this kind of falls

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