I recently had my first Live Production hand-in, which wasn’t so much of a hand-in but rather a practical test, and written test on everything I’d done in the sessions in The Engine Shed.

The written test consisted of 6 questions, these varied from how to setup the consoles for a live event using a monitor desk, and FOH desk, all the way to what colour the power plugs are for certain phase power. This was pretty easy as it was mostly just common sense, some of the stuff in the test I had read the morning of the test while doing some research anyway so it was completely fresh in my mind.

The practical test for me consisted of setting up a channel of the desk to take an input from an SM58 mic. I then had to test the monitor wedges were all working correctly, and then send the mic channel back to the correct mix group so that the vocalist could hear themselves through their monitor wedges. Once this was done I still had about 3-4min of time left so I got a “bonus” section. I had to assign a graphic EQ to the vocalists monitor wedges and take out all the high end, leaving just the low end. I did this pretty quickly also without any problems, I still had extra time so I was asked to assign talkback to a button of my choosing on the user defined key section, I assigned button 12 to use an unlatched talkback button, tested it and passed that section with still some time to spare.

I couldn’t actually get any higher points, and I came out of the test with a 95/95. The marking scheme for my university is anything above 70 is a 1st, and 95 is the highest 1st you can possibly get at Lincoln. I’m REALLY pleased to have come out of the test with the highest 1st you can get at the uni

Just have to setup a show at The Engine Shed now, and then write a 2000 word assignment on live sound production, and this unit will be over

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