52 Tweaks to a Stronger Team: #18

#18. Create a true Sunday morning sound check.

I would venture to guess that the average Sunday morning “sound check” is just a re-rehearsal with the sound guys dialing in all the more-me requests in the monitor.

Here are a few suggestions to start steering in a new direction:

• Work with your team (techs and musicians) to have a true sound-check. That means your band needs to have a “ready to play” time and stick with it.
• Stagger the sound check. Bring your instrumentalists in at 7:45 and your singers in at 8:00. By 8:10, you’re ready to roll with less stopping for monitor adjustments.
• When you sound check the band, go without monitors for a song (see #36). This lets the tech get a great FOH mix. Then add into the monitors only what you need to keep the band on time and on pitch.

Is this easy?
No.

Will it frustrate your band?
Oh yeah.

But it will force them to listen to each other in a brand new way?
Yep.

And they just might realize they need less of themselves.

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