Ok, so here's the situation. Large, highly reverberant (3 1/2 second RT60) room; may as well be a gym for mixing purposes. Of course, what happens in this room but the youth service. So I find out that morning that I was going to be mixing it. Never having mixed in the room before I went in pinked it, then rang out the system. I had almost no gain-before-feedback and when the system rang it rang for a LONG time before it stopped. By the time the band finally got there I tried to get them to do a sound check with me. Their idea of a sound check apparently is to do part of a song then stop. Not the easiest way to mix. So anyways, I finally get the vocals ok, not great, but at least somewhat intelligible in that nasty nasty room, and right when I'm ready to mix the rest of the band they decide to take a break. Not cool. So while they're doing their thing, I just sit and twiddle my thumbs until they come back. They do more of the play half a song business and after a good bit of "gentle prodding" on my part they finally play a few songs all the way through. By the time the service actually starts I'm still a little nervous. But, somehow, right when they started their worship set with the congregation everything came together. So there ends my little rant. Hopefully I won't have to post another for a while