5 things the worship team wishes the sound team knew

Yesterday I posted an article “6 things your sound team wishes you knew” that my friend Peter Bruce had written. Peter is one of the guys who heads up our AV teams at our church and he’s also one of our acoustic guitar players so he’s got thoughts on this subject from both sides of the stage.

Check out some of his thoughts about what the worship team wishes the sound team knew -

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Things the worship team wish the sound person knew :

1. We are a team. We need, appreciate and value honest and tactful feedback. If you hear something is wrong let us know or pull us down in the mix if it is during the service. We are trusting you so that we will not be a distraction to the worship.

2. Get to know us and make a note of what we typically need in our monitors and preset them before soundcheck. We are artists and knowing you have taken time for each of us goes a long way
3. If you explain why you want us to do something we will trust you more and follow your direction.
4. Please don’t expect us to be warmed up vocally at 7:30-7:45 AM. We know you need to get levels set on the board but we need to warm up for a few songs first.
5. If we see you on sound, set up and tear down regularly we get to know you better and trust you more. Be on time, we know that you are usually the first people in and the last to leave and we appreciate you for that but if you are always scrambling at the last minute it makes it hard for us to get comforable.

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More great thoughts from Peter on this. I love how people at our church are dedicated to serving together in team and finding ways to make the experience more valuable for people who come to our church.

Thanks for all your hard work, Peter! (And Rebecca, too – I’m sure your great wife was a part of putting this list together.)

What do you guys think? Any thoughts to add to this?