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SAE Magazine 13-3

INDEX s Babara and Funtastics, bands that where humble e their talent with us. le snobby and demanding ng to expose my students he real world’. was trying to find an oppor- or show, a concert outside put what they had studied gested the building pent- a is based. d this, meaning students between both sound rein- and out. Their faces were believe how different the the wind, and even with s system the mix was not solution for some but our oop jumped from time to oblin behind the speakers ncy and control it!,” I found e to time. oved and students worked ranging from helping with with the FOH mixer. Once again Los Babara and Funtastics were there as our invited artists - the show was going ahead. However, in what will prove to be an unforgetta- ble learning curve, students witnessed the ultimate crash and burn. Oneofmydeareststudents,whoshallremainname- less, carelessly leant on the digital board, pressing the ‘recall’ button while scene zero was selected. It resulted in the student recalling scene zero from the console´s memory – our whole routing main- frame was gone and went back to zero. As nobody thought to save the console’s status to an available memory slot, all the work was gone. The band stopped playing and confusion reigned. A big mistake was made and everybody had a chance to learn from it. After all that is what the students were there for. However as the situation was critical I quickly helped to set everything back up as fast as possible. The band resumed the song, the faders went up quickly, the monitor sends were promptly set again. Everything that needed to be done was done as speedily as possible. I will never forget this show, it reminded us all of the fears and risks a live engineer faces every show. It also showed how adrenaline-filled, difficult but ultimately gratifying this job can be. For some reason I get the feeling that my students will be hitting save every five seconds from now on. n

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