Audio Engineering Skills – Mastering The Personality
Understanding yourself and others is as important as understanding gain structure, EQ techniques, or how to dial in the perfect effects.
By Kevin Butler • April 16, 2019I’m starting a new series here on valuable audio engineering skills I’ve learned over the years running sound and recording music. I don’t consider myself an expert, just a student going through the ranks of the school of hard knocks…
I often find myself teaching others how to “run sound”. As the lead audio engineer working and volunteering in the church world, I have the privilege (and the curse) of working with all types of people with all types of backgrounds and personalities on a weekly basis.
When attempting to impart my audio knowledge on to others, I find it comes down to two genres of knowledge: technical and personal. Technical makes sense: “This is how gain works…. this is what a compressor is… this is a microphone…” etc etc. But personality? What does that even mean?
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