Two Weddings And An Audio Board

Last weekend my son and I ended up working audio for not one, but two weddings.

Every Audio Tech was away at a Life Teen retreat and so they came to us, to work the gig. No big deal, we are actually getting pretty good at it.

The first wedding was on Friday afternoon at 3PM. I asked my boss if it was OK to leave work early, to give my very competent son a hand. She OKed it and off I went.

Each time we do this gig, we learn more about where to find stuff and how to make each wedding happen. This one had a quartet of 3 people. I was confused, but I guess this quartet, was missing one of their team, for this Friday afternoon gig. I was told to mic their instruments, but they did not want to do this. They felt that they were loud enough on their own. I decided that we could compromise. I asked if they had a problem with me setting up a Choir mic, just above them? They said no and so that is what I did. It gave my son options, if he felt the music was too low or if he ended up sending a line feed over to the photographer. We ended up not sending the feed, but he did use the audio coming off that mic, to supplement the audio being generated by the two violins and one cello.

Other then that, the wedding went as expected. The couple is now married. :-)

Wedding 2 was on Saturday afternoon at 1PM.

We had a visiting priest, so in addition to our normal set up, we had to make sure the priest got the wireless mic on correctly. He was one of the priests who do not want the mic on his ear and so we had to talk to him, because he had it laying on the front of his vestments. We warned him that the priest the day before had the mic pointed out and away from his face and there were some minor feedback issues. If that occurred, the priest agreed that he would then put the mic attachment on his ear, as it is intended to be worn. Thankfully for him, it did not feed back.

Bride number two was just as married as bride number one, by 3PM that afternoon and my son was out of there, $150 richer.

We would be honored to do more work, if needed.