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The only way to know your venue is to conduct a site visit. These site visits can provide valuable insight such as: - Venue Dimensions and layout. - Venue Acoustics. - Complexity of sound reinforcement and treatment required.

Site visits can be extremely useful for technical directors informing audio team on the venue. If you can't do an in person site, ask your venue contact to do a virtual site visit with you. Big rocks to know about your venue: 1. Rigging points- are you able to rig or is all gear ground stacked? 2. Where does power come from/what power do you need? 3. How does venue labor work? Any limitations with bringing in crews? Labor penalties around hours or meals? 4. Site lines from audience to your proposed stage position 5. Dead case storage area 6. Truck loading dock and push path- How far is this from your room? Is it a hard push requiring more labor? 7. Preferred vendors- do you have to use their in house AV? 8. Venue access & security

Also, realize that the size of your audience will dictate your audio requirements in terms of acoustics. = I've seen people think the audio sounded great, and it did, when the venue was empty. But put several hundred bodies in the way of the subs and around the speakers, suddenly everyone toward the back gets a terrible experience because every bit of audio sounds muted, dead, and lifeless. Bodies affect audio, especially when they're staged right in front of the speakers or subs. Remember that. (Pro Tip: When in doubt, raise your speakers and subs higher. Hang em high boys. ;)

The room & what goes in the room will dictate most of your audio package. Work with trusted professionals on what your audio package will look like. From an overall event standpoint, stay close on what types of microphones you want your speakers to wear (DPA, handheld, wired mic, lav, etc.) and how you want the PA to look in the room (discreet, rigged, ground stacked, etc.) Ask your audio vendor for a sound plot to ensure all audience seats can hear. This comes into play most frequently when the PA cannot be rigged and creates challenges of getting sound to the middle seats.

The type of event hosted in said venue needs to be considered. Larger music performances such as DJs and live acts will require more LF devices. Clear and audible MF/HF speakers will be more in line with smaller conferences and or presentations.

The best way to ensure you get the correct audio package is to walk your trusted audio vendor through your show flow, calling out moments when a DJ may be playing, audience interaction is needed to be captured, live band onstage, etc. Ensure site lines from your first row audience seats are not impacted by downstage edge monitors or big subs (if you can help it)

Testing your audio equipment should ideally be done as much as possible in advance so that you have time to obtain replacements, allowing for logistics of that small item that gives you the biggest headache

Your audio team will test all audio gear during pre-show rehearsals. The most common gear failure tends to be with wireless microphone frequency interference of a battery dying. Work with your audio vendor to understand and document their recommended protocol.

The BEST way to ensure a good show is to hire and work with trusted audio vendors. Be intentional about building relationships with audio teams at different events and consider traveling them to your shows. You will sleep better at night knowing you have an A1 who you can trust and who knows your speakers and brand. If you are in a new city, ask your venue lead for vendor recommendations and spend time vetting them.

Something that gets overlooked quite frequently is to not only cater for the size of the audience but to have adequate headroom within a live reinforced sound system. If the audio system is catered for a specific size and scenario, it might not be adequate during emergency announcements or evacuations, considering the audience might overpower said system. The longevity of the sound system should also be considered. Operating a system at 90% for extended periods will result in earlier failure of equipment, compared to operating at 60% of the scope of the PA.