Andy Green
Attended the Base Sound September 07 Weekend Training Course.
Being a musician Andy came on the course wanting to learn how to sound engineer for live gigs with a view to setting up his own rental business, providing professional PA equipment hire and engineer services. After the course Andy took the plunge and purchased a complete sound system through Base Sound and has now formed his own company called Reality Sounds. Andy had his first professional engineering gig on Saturday 6th October at Burton Town Hall in Burton on Trent. The band playing that night were Circa and they contacted Andy through one of his adverts and asked him to to provide the equipment and engineer. With just under 400 people there, this was some first gig but Andy took it all in his stride. Both the band and the crowd commented on how good the sound was and more bookings are now following. Well done Andy we wish you all the best in the future!


Drew Black
Attended the Base Sound September 07 Weekend Training Course.
Drew came on the course having spent many years playing the guitar in various bands and decided he now wanted to learn all about the world of sound engineering. Whilst attending the weekend course he quickly got to grips with all the equipment and by the end had mastered the Allen & Heath 32 channel desk, all the outboard and was doing 4 way monitor mixes. Within a couple of weeks of the course we were able to get him some freelance work with a London based sound company called Encore and almost immediately after were able to arrange an interview for him with a major London based Sound equipment rental company called Delta Sound. Although new to the world of sound engineering and up against many other applicants Drew was able to secure a full time job within the very busy sound department and all within just 6 weeks of attending the course! Well done Drew.


From Gary Follett
Hi Howard,
Hope you are ok just to let you know that I carried out my first gig as sound engineer
for the band I dep for. It was a bit nerve racking at first but I got some good
comments about the sound especially when I was all set to mic the drum kit up and
the drummer comes along with an electric kit, I thought "oh no its going to sound
horrible" as I dont like the electric kits myself although it did save a lot of time miking
it all up. Yet it sounded much better than I anticipated and the band said that I'm
welcome to do the sound again whenever I want, so I must of done something right!
Normally when I play with this band I can not hear the vocals very clearly as they are
very muffled with a lot of feed back as the singer uses a radio mic but I got them as
clear as day with little or no feedback. I was told the onstage sound was pretty good
as well. I do hope I can get a few more gigs under my belt as doing sound
engineering is great.! I dont know what's better actually playing or doing the sound.
All I know it's a great buzz!

Anyway all the best
Gary .


Scott Tancock
Scott attended the Base Sound Weekend Course halfway through completeing a two year music technology degree as he wanted to understand how to engineer live musicians which the degree course didn't cover. Having got stuck in from the start Scott completed the weekend with a new outlook on what he wanted to do and decided to take the brave move of not completing his degree course. This was totally his choice but he had got the bug for live engineering and nothing was going to change him. Straight away we found a company local to him that was able to offer him freelance engineering work and within 4 weeks had managed to arrange another interview with the Uk's largest Audio Production company Sounds Commercial. Having gone through two interviews and a week's intensive trial period, Scott impressed them so much they offered him a full time job. Well done Scott we wish you all the best for the future.