Valuable skills for soundystem?

A sound engineering handbook would help you learn about acoustics and other books will help you know how technology has evolved, transistors, passive and active systems,  that's important for your own development,  wether this will forward you career with these fellows is not certain,  they may just want a stuff carrier 

Edited by Steve20131 - 15 December 2025 at 4:29am

I just got on with it and taught myself... none of this stuff is hard... but then, I guess you do need your own kit to play with to do that.

Edited by adamb00m - 15 December 2025 at 11:09am

Thank you for the good responses, I will continue to read up!

without any hint of disrespect.. i get the feeling you are on a learning curve for sound in general where soundsystems and the crew around it are more an instrument by itself. might be an idea to stick in the soundsystem scene for the softer and emotional skills but "regular" sound will bring you other skills which help to form your own unique sound. 

Edited by Bams - 16 December 2025 at 9:37am

Put together a well stocked tool box/ peli case, with a good selection of decent tools for speaker maintenance etc, a bunch of audio adapters/ problem solvers, cable tester, torches, tie wraps, gaffa tape, spare cables, fuses, pens/ pencils, basic first aid kit, field recorder, spare memory sticks, usb cables. Basically anything you can think of that might come in handy. There’s a YouTube channel that did a series called “what’s in your peli?” (Or similar) for what techies carry to gigs. You want to the be the guy who has the small ‘thing’ that someone forgot or the small thing that keeps the show on the road. Being that guy helps your reputation in the real world at gigs, especially festivals (in my experience) think dj in a panic without headphone adapter, or you need an adapter for a phone to play test tracks or background music etc etc. If you drive, carry a jump starter/ power bank, more tools, gloves, hiviz, spare hiviz, waterproof jacket, tyre seal. I got obsessed with my Peli while building my sound and then working out in the field and doing maintenance at venues etc. Other skills are knowing how to coil cables, how to make cables, soldering, knowing the basics (or deeper) about power & power safety, learn about multicore audio cables, signal path, matching amps to speakers. Other skills, van driving, van loading, building stages, lighting/ dmx, being tidy with gear/ cables/ tape/ not leaving any mess (snipped cable ties and used tape lying around drives people nuts) one of the greatest skills in sound is being organised.