Dix
03-24-2012, 04:23 PM
Well, today is brain fart day.
I go to a wedding & reception today at 2pm for a 6pm event... that I actually thought was a 4pm event. :uhoh: I actually checked my contract a couple of time over tha last week I know... I just know I did & it was 4 - 10... nope 6 - 11. How did I get THIS confussed? Brain fart.. :uhoh:
I get there, go thru everything with the bride & her two assistants. We get everything covered. I start to set up before getting paid. Not a problem today but just for notes, it something I never do. :uhoh:
I get set up & go for my sound check.... no sound. :uhoh:
I go thru all my system from front to back... my wife goes behind me although she isn't the electrical or sound tech here.... still nothing. I determined I have sound from the laptop to the sound card cause the little "A" light is blinking a little. But no sound is getting to the mixer. Changed the cable from the sound card to the mixer, still no sound. I checked the connections from the mixer to the amp to the speakers just to make sure. Those all look good. I shut down the laptop & restarted just to make sure the sound card was being detected although I could see the software loaded. Still nothing. So, I shut down again & installed my backup sound card.... still nothing. I double checked the software settings for the third time... while doing so, I changed to the laptop speakers just to make sure I had sound. Yep, got sound from the laptop speakers but no sound thru TWO sound cards. We went over the mixer for a third time & I noticed... AH HA!!!! there is the culprit! In transport somewhere, the line one switch got switched from line one to phono. :blank: So after going thru everything three times, changing the sound card twice & changing the sound output options three times... it was a simple switch that I over looked for about 30 minutes.
Why do I set up early? Because sometimes we just have those days where we get brain farts & just over look things that are right there in front of us.
The groom showed up about 2:30 & handed me the remaining balance, so there wasn't any problems... this time.
Why am I writing this? Cause since the wedding doesnt start for another two hours, I needed something to do :blank:
I go to a wedding & reception today at 2pm for a 6pm event... that I actually thought was a 4pm event. :uhoh: I actually checked my contract a couple of time over tha last week I know... I just know I did & it was 4 - 10... nope 6 - 11. How did I get THIS confussed? Brain fart.. :uhoh:
I get there, go thru everything with the bride & her two assistants. We get everything covered. I start to set up before getting paid. Not a problem today but just for notes, it something I never do. :uhoh:
I get set up & go for my sound check.... no sound. :uhoh:
I go thru all my system from front to back... my wife goes behind me although she isn't the electrical or sound tech here.... still nothing. I determined I have sound from the laptop to the sound card cause the little "A" light is blinking a little. But no sound is getting to the mixer. Changed the cable from the sound card to the mixer, still no sound. I checked the connections from the mixer to the amp to the speakers just to make sure. Those all look good. I shut down the laptop & restarted just to make sure the sound card was being detected although I could see the software loaded. Still nothing. So, I shut down again & installed my backup sound card.... still nothing. I double checked the software settings for the third time... while doing so, I changed to the laptop speakers just to make sure I had sound. Yep, got sound from the laptop speakers but no sound thru TWO sound cards. We went over the mixer for a third time & I noticed... AH HA!!!! there is the culprit! In transport somewhere, the line one switch got switched from line one to phono. :blank: So after going thru everything three times, changing the sound card twice & changing the sound output options three times... it was a simple switch that I over looked for about 30 minutes.
Why do I set up early? Because sometimes we just have those days where we get brain farts & just over look things that are right there in front of us.
The groom showed up about 2:30 & handed me the remaining balance, so there wasn't any problems... this time.
Why am I writing this? Cause since the wedding doesnt start for another two hours, I needed something to do :blank: