Well, to start-
Ive had techies sticking live 1/4 phono plugs into their mouths, shocking themselves on the Phantom power,
Ive had some teacher shut off the enormus 20A breaker of the auditorium, jus to 'turn the lights off'
ive found a mic cable on the floor, that was incidently plugged into a live amp that sends to our main mix speakers.
Ive seen techies use bars to 'ride up' to the top of the celing, without any safety equipment, then come back down,
Ive seen people riding a motorized projector screen up,
Ive had a techie plug our side fill speakers into a prefader aux output, then have him run back to me, wondering why it's feeding back while all the faders are down.
Ive seen sets fall,
The lighting board once overheated when the heating system in the auditorium went berserk, pumping the heat up to 100 deg F!
Ive come to the sound board, just to find a nice large blob of pizza sauce sitting on top of the EQ knobs.
Someone once had the stupidity to shove a glue stick into the bulb holder of a very hot shakespear that was turned on, and quite hot. It melted all over the carpeting below, and created this awful stench of burning plastic that still lives inside that light.
And then, the COUNTLESS occasions of floormics found backwards, phantom power forgotten to be turned on, people who spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong, when an amp was turned off, dropped mics, nasty lighting effects, and feedback feedback feedback......
Ive had techies sticking live 1/4 phono plugs into their mouths, shocking themselves on the Phantom power,
Ive had some teacher shut off the enormus 20A breaker of the auditorium, jus to 'turn the lights off'
ive found a mic cable on the floor, that was incidently plugged into a live amp that sends to our main mix speakers.
Ive seen techies use bars to 'ride up' to the top of the celing, without any safety equipment, then come back down,
Ive seen people riding a motorized projector screen up,
Ive had a techie plug our side fill speakers into a prefader aux output, then have him run back to me, wondering why it's feeding back while all the faders are down.
Ive seen sets fall,
The lighting board once overheated when the heating system in the auditorium went berserk, pumping the heat up to 100 deg F!
Ive come to the sound board, just to find a nice large blob of pizza sauce sitting on top of the EQ knobs.
Someone once had the stupidity to shove a glue stick into the bulb holder of a very hot shakespear that was turned on, and quite hot. It melted all over the carpeting below, and created this awful stench of burning plastic that still lives inside that light.
And then, the COUNTLESS occasions of floormics found backwards, phantom power forgotten to be turned on, people who spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong, when an amp was turned off, dropped mics, nasty lighting effects, and feedback feedback feedback......