Touching.

well, that's two minutes of my life I won't get back. (I didn't watch the whole thing).

Dave T2

I predict it will become the anthem at controlbooth.com, home to more unemployed teenagers than anywhere on the net . . .

I spent 25 years doing front-of-house mixing for concerts and if I was doing my job well, I was absolutely invisible and I liked it that way. This video offends me on so many levels! :)

I like it.

i was once asked to work a desk at a large 'private' function, (four piece band and two singers), simply because i was there (as a guest!) and was known to be working for decca records at the time.

after the second song this guy (all hair and attitude) came up and 'directed' what i should be doing through the third song.

since he was still standing next to me at the start of the fourth song and still giving me advice i simply stood up, told him the desk was his and went off to the bar.

i have never enjoyed myself so much in my life ;-)*

*to be honest he didn't do too bad a job, but it certainly wasn't 'professional'

Wow - so many thin-skinned responses to the content without any comment about the production itself. Other than a few (OK, a lot) of cheese and a couple of green-screen errors, there's a lot of interesting editing here.

Oh, the irony of satire.

OK, I'll give you that the production was interesting, however, being the pedantic, stickler for technical accuracy that I am, there are some errors in terminology in this video. First of all, audio engineers operate "faders" not "levers." Certain types of toggle switches incorporate levers, faders do not. Secondly, audio engineers protect from "feedback", not "negative feedback." In electronics, negative feedback is used in many types of amplification systems to stabilize and reduce non-linearity and distortion in the audio circuit. Negative feedback is desirable, feedback is decidedly not. Lastly, they suggest buying the sound guy a six-pack of beer. In the history of music, NO ONE has ever played or mixed better after consuming alcohol. I know many people who have _thought_ they were playing better, but they were also drunk at the time. One thing is true, however, sound guys are often attracted to the female singer, my own romantic history proves this quite clearly.

Ha Leslie,
Reminds me of our big band set at a huge outdoor festival a few years back. Our self-anointed audio person, who has the IQ of a rabbit, walked out to the booth, puffed up his chest, and announced that he was the TD for the band. The two guys at the booth said, "Great, we'll see you after the set" and left him standing at the 56-ch(?) board like a deer in the headlights. If was fully twenty minutes into the set before he got the stage mics unmuted.
;?)

I used to be a soundman for Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. While I was there it went from being one of the coolest jobs in the world to one of the worst. When I started, it was before CDs, and we would have these great shows with pit orchestras everywhere. Talent scouts scoured the world for the best talent. You'd do two or three high energy shows in a night and it was an absolute blast.

Fast forward to the present and you have a couple of ok looking minimum wage teenagers posing as talent which is fine I suppose because they are only lip syncing and they are only in supporting roles to animatronics. There might be 10 to 15 of these "shows" in a day and all the audio guy really has to know is how to change batteries and crossfade between audio source A and B. How it went from being world class entertainment to about the level of Chuck-E-Cheese is beyond me. I bailed out about 15 years ago.

Now I do sound for a couple of large churches. In another hour I am heading off to Tampa to do sound for a Penticostal style faith healing service. Fortunately the band rocks. Not exactly what I thought I was getting into years ago when I was a Music Engineering major at the University of Miami, but in this economy you do what you have to do. Plus, I seem to have plenty of video work right now.

...being the pedantic, stickler for technical accuracy that I am, there are some errors in terminology in this video.

You mean like the people who come up to you while you're on a shoot and ask you what you're "filming"?
30+ years of working with students has taught me to ignore my wishes for technical accuracy. Instead I just gently correct them and move on.
I consider it an off-the-cuff look at what a sound guy does, wasn't expecting anything really good (especially when I saw how it started) and wasn't disappointed :)

Mike

Well... I'm not a sound guy, I'm an old guy. I don't see why anyone would take offense. Video quality is good.

I thought it was funny, and I'm going to pass it on to my eclectic group of hobbits who run the sound board at my church. At last - some recognition!

Funny but a bit long. They have a live show that could be fun, especially after a few drinks.

I'm a sound Guy and I loved it! The technical inaccuracies were especially funny because I encounter it that sort of thing all the time from musicians.

I also loved the group. I've never heard of them before, so thanks for posting the link!

Guy