SoundGirls.org: In any normal year, early spring is when the staffing process begins for tours going out in the fall. You probably won’t have a contract in hand yet, but your resume has gone off to designers and production companies, or (if you’re currently on tour) you’ve had a conversation with your design team or production manager about the shows going into production, and what they might have in mind for you.
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I actually really loved prepping shows for sound, so this article really brought me back to past shows I've worked on as a sound designer or engineer. In my opinion, so much of sound design relies on proper preparation, including script analysis, script annotation, research, microphone plots, frequency analysis, and of course practice! Overall I actually find this process rather soothing; it's kind of like a big puzzle you have to solve! I really like how Heather spent so much time actually practicing on a fake board to see what improvements she could make to her DCA layout. This is something I feel like we don't often have the chance to do before we are thrown into a mic'd up tech rehearsal. Doing the prep work is one of the most important parts of really any theatre discipline, and only serves to reduce the workload and stress during tech. And as she points out, any little bit of preparation will help in the long run.
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