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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Proper soundcheck + mic 2 and I've never had more than 15 seconds of dead time in past 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But you know, you, you get paid.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

As a 20+ year audio professional, the only way this happens is an engineer that either doesn’t know what they’re doing at all (so not a pro) or they aren’t getting paid enough and are very vindictive.

Literally thousands of open mic nights across the country run by teenagers getting paid nothing do a better job of preparing than this.

I applaud whoever fucked this up cause honestly, fuck that guy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why waste money on a pro when the deputy campaign manager’s cousin, who is very big in the audio, can do it for campaign merch and free soda?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, I know that’s tongue in cheek, but the results is the reason why.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, there's no way he was getting merch or free soda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

As an amateur with an audio interface and a few mics - you don't need to know all that much to avoid that mistake.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Looks like they had a second mic, but it didn't work either

My money is on someone pulling the plug mid speech