I’d been asking a friend about opportunities for work in Toronto for quite some time. So when she hooked me up with a job interview to be a monitor tech at The Mod Club, I knew I had to take it.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Jumping Into the Hot Seat
I’d been asking a friend about opportunities for work in Toronto for quite some time. So when she hooked me up with a job interview to be a monitor tech at The Mod Club, I knew I had to take it.
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I wont pretend I understood half of the sound jargon that was being slung around in the article, but I think that feeling is universal across all technicians. The feeling of going into a new house/venue/gig whatever and not knowing what kind of tech they have, wondering if your going to know how to use whatever they have, or at least if you can make it look like you know how to use what they have in house. I’ve been there many a time at various festivals, one off gigs and venues that I had never worked before with the lighting consoles. The Eos line of consoles has done more than anything by way of reliving the stress of the technician about whether or not they would know how to use the in house gear. You could be reasonably confident that for a very wide range of scales of theaters, you would probably encounter an Eos line console, or at least something ETC that has the same programming syntax.
I like the tone that the article took, and it made me feel like I could really relate to the author. She got a big jargon-y at some points, but I was actually able to understand just about everything that she said. I’ve spoken with Mike about the fact that we use analog desks here at depth, and I think that it’s a really interesting decision not to put a digital in the Chosky. Joe Pino makes the great point that you learn sound better on an analog, which is something I totally relate to. You don’t get bogged down with too much technical stuff, so it becomes all about learning how to control the parameters that you have control over. Unfortunately, in the real world there are a lot of digital consoles, and they aren’t quite as intuitive as the analog consoles. Analog desks are all very similar, and besides subtle differences if you can use one you can basically use any one. Digital on the other hand is a bit more complex. If you can use a certain one you can use similar ones well, and be able to navigate on most, but it’s a lot harder to get used to one you haven’t used before. That’s why I find it weird that we have only two digital desks, one of which is pretty old. It would actually be really great if there was a mixing class, and every two weeks the SOD rented a different console and let us play on it, that way when we leave here we not only know how to use any analog console, but we’ll also have experience on most of the digital consoles that we’ll come across in life.
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