You realize that the "A" in "AV" stands for audio, right? AV is not an abbreviation for video.

You can call yourself a professional anytime you want. But unless you know the fundamentals of troubleshooting, you are not a professional.

You are sound hostile if you speak at full voice during tech, hum loudly during a hold, or whistle while walking around the theater.

What is it that drives the assumption that sound doesn't need the same level of crew support during tech as the other departments?

Here’s some free advice for event venues: if 1/2 of your ground stacked line array is pointing at the floor 6’ away, you’re doing it wrong.

There’s a big difference between “doesn’t work” and “doesn’t work for me.” It can usually be found through proper troubleshooting.

There’s no such thing as “just discovering” that you have a show. Failure to plan causes confusion, not mystery.

I just don’t understand why people have trouble with this: quiet time needs to be quiet, exactly like focus needs to be dark.

Why don’t we just start calling production meetings “props meetings?” That feels a lot more honest.

If you cannot adjust your schedule and you cannot adjust your budget, then you have to adjust your expectations.

Producer, you have hired me to care about things you don’t care about. If you’re not going to trust me on that subject, what am I here for?

Directors: it is never, ever appropriate to answer a direct, practical question with “let’s just try it and not talk about it.” I don’t ask questions in tech that I don’t need answers to.

Oh how I wish someone out there would really give Clear Com some serious competition. The state of theatrical intercom is just tragic.

Sound design cannot magically fix your set changes. If they’re clunky and stupid, all I can do is make them clunky and stupid with nice music.

Prepositions are pretty damn important in audio. You really shouldn’t confuse whether sound is going INTO or coming OUT of a device.

If your designers are begging for a production meeting, have one. We don’t enjoy them. We’d never ask for one if we didn’t need it.

Stage Managers: if a designer asks you when they can come to rehearsal, don’t wait a week then say “oh we’re having a designer run through tomorrow.”

Quiet time is not the time for the crew to finish setting up the sound system. That’s supposed to have happened already. Do we wait until focus to do soft patch? No, we don’t.

Anticipation is the key to success in tech. If you know what going to happen next, get ready for it now. Don’t wait.

Please start by assuming that I’ve made my design choices on purpose. Please do not manually stop cues from playing because you just thought you ought to. I know how to program a fade out.