Sound Guy & Audio Engineer Hats

Every show has one person everybody looks at when a microphone cuts out, and it is the one at the desk. A ChurchLeaders piece on live sound describes the sound person as the main complaint station for every grumpy member of the congregation, someone who mainly gets attention whenever something goes wrong. The Stranger's Slog once collected the sore-point question every engineer knows, "How does it sound?", and ProSoundWeb's old-soundman piece puts the routine labour plainly: over time you will coil about a million XLR cables. These sound guy and audio engineer hats cover the badges (SOUND GUY, AUDIO ENGINEER, FOH ENGINEER) and the lines the job earns: it was fine at soundcheck, check check one two, and every XLR cable I own is a suspect. SOUND GUY I ACCEPT NO FEEDBACK is already sold on TeePublic shirts and gets a second colorway here, as does IT WAS FINE AT SOUNDCHECK. TeePublic runs a dedicated audio-engineer hat category, so the buyer is real. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Give one to the engineer at your venue, your band's sound person, or wear it behind the desk yourself.