Hey Adam. What's up? Do you have a sound check soon? I do in about 10 minutes. Really? Can you think of some

things not to do before you get there? Because that's what we're talking about today, buddy.

Let's do it. Three. One.

I'm Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast and a D-flat.

Yeah, a sonorous G-D-flat, sonorous.

I'm digging the live theme.

That's fun, man.

Yeah, yeah, that's kind of fun.

Well, I think hopefully Adam will have edited that out for the actual thing but we'll see we'll see what happens um wow what are we talking about today sir

today we're topical we're talking about i'm about to go to a sound check and we're talking about seven things

not to do at a sound check right and we did not set this up as kind of instructional for you for what you're about to do, but you can take it that way because you're about to go to a sound check. Yeah, yeah. And I was at a sound check last night that took a little bit longer than I believe it should have. Right, because we had a meeting that you were late to because of your sound check that went over, which could end up being one of our things not to do, and that is to... I have the feeling it wasn't you that extended that sound show. It was not, but now the universe is coming around because I have a sound check, but I'm definitely going to be late to today. Well, we have to demonstrate, you know, just as the great Christian McBride does in his wonderful course on Open Studio, he does a lot of demonstrating of what not to do. And the

students have gotten a lot out of that. So there's nothing wrong with that. All right. So let's go with number one. Number one thing not to do with a sound check. Rehears. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Now, this might seem like people might be like, what do you mean? That's the time to rehearse. Well, it's not actually a sound check then. I'm a big stickler about this because you can have a rehearsal or a sound check or it's

possible to do both of them together.

But that needs to be announced, I think, in advance or it needs to be organized in advance

because a sound check, you're being a little bit disrespectful to the sound engineers and really to each other.

You're supposed to be acclimating to the room, checking the sound, the sound engineer, and it

depends on how big the crew is, you know, or if you're doing the sound yourself, front of house,

monitors, whatever, big festival, small club, whatever. But it's a chance to get acclimated

with, sometimes with just your instrument. Like for us as piano, sometimes it's a chance to get acclimated with, sometimes with just your

instrument, like for us as piano, sometimes it's the only time we have to really be in there. But when you try to layer in a rehearsal on top of that, like, I hate it when people are bringing in like complicated. Oh, let's go over this real quick. Call a separate rehearsal. I'm super, super agree. Now, I will say that if like the one I'm about to go to today is a one off kind of gig, right?

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