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How you communicate with the sound engineer is key to a rapid, trouble-free soundcheck. Top tech Chris Lawson says: “The classic one with a small band is that everybody’s talking at once – that’s the one thing that no monitor engineer can deal with. If you’ve got a five-piece band on stage and they’re all asking you for stuff at the same time then you can’t do anything. When you get to your monitor point, everyone else should shut up and, likewise, you should shut up when they’re doing their mix. One at a time and you’ll get there much quicker and you’ll get what you want.”