From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Unloading the trucks and load-in

Unloading the trucks and load-in

From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Unloading the trucks and load-in

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This is the point during the day where all of the equipment, whether it be lights or audio or video elements, all have to come into the building, be put into the respective places. And are pre-assembled before they get picked up in the air. This is when you do any troubleshooting to make sure that everything goes up easy for the rest of the tour. We go into a building and we are 45 maybe 50 people counting truck drivers and bus drivers. In the morning, we have as many as 42 other people that are hired by the local promoter in conjunction with the band to assist us in bringing our equipment into the building and setting it up. We have people that in most instances are trained to work with the equipment that we are bringing into the builing. They know how to put trusses together. They know how to fly the PA. They know the equipment well enough to where when we say stage left, stage right, they've learned the terminology. These are communication safety issues that you really can't…

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