Day 308: Sound practice

This morning I got to church early to do sound. Wow, I'm a whole lot slower than I was 4 weeks ago getting around, but I had a whole lot of help with set up and tear down this time. There can often be a lot of running up and down the stairs to tweak things on the stage, so I was very grateful for the help. This will likely be the last week I do it for a long while, and I'll miss it.

Day 191: Sound check

Last week I went in to relearn how things are done, this week I got to practice on my own. I'm still a little confused as to where I'm supposed to plug everyone in, but it's getting better. These cords gave me a bit of trouble-- I didn't find out until Sunday that the cord to Nicole's djembe drum was faulty, and that was after trying 3 different microphones. *sigh*

Day 30: Sound Gal

I helped set up and run sound again today at Mother's Fellowship. There's a LOT to do for this particular venue and I'm feeling less anxious to want to take it over now. After today(which was only a training day), I think I'll only want to do it as a backup. It was tough for me to get there by 8:30, and it looks like I'd need to be there no later than 8:15 to get everything set up. There's the board, 7 mike stands, music stands and cords, recording the CD, setting up the computer for power point, setting up the guest speaker with a cordless . . . and the last few weeks there have been computer problems. Other places I've had at least part of these responsibilities done by others-- the only way I could do it is if there were others to take charge of the computer and help me set up some of the mics.

Day 24: Wednesday night at FBC

This was the first time Jamin and I have gone to First Baptist on a Wednesday night. We decided to try it out, so we went for the family dinner and then I went to worship practice to see if I could be trained in on the soundboard. I was able to do some observations by looking things over, but there ended up being no sound person to ask questions. I was really glad I didn't end up busing to church for that result. I walked a lot today-- Zaria and I started out late for the library reading, so I had to walk/run there and arrived a couple of minutes late, and I had started to walk to the bus stop to go to church when Jamin called to say he'd be home in time for us to ride there together. We checked out the nursery to find out how the timing works, but Zaria went with her Grandma so we didn't have to bring her tonight.

So two days in a row of soundboard training that ended up being a little awkward. And at church, I'll probably need to wait until Zaria's weaned before I really take up a regular role helping with sound.