soundboard mishaps

This week was my first time setting up the entire soundsystem for our Sunday Celebration. I was the only person at set up who knew how to do any of it. I've been in training for about a month. Naturally I wasn't exactly feeling qualified for the position of "expert" last night as we set it up. :S

I had to call Josiah, the real expert who is gone, and ask him how to set up the stage and the soundboard. Funny, he's taught me how, but the longer I stood there looking at it, the less confidence I had that I could actually set the whole thing up by myself.

Well this morning at practice it mostly worked. I had done something right. However, during worship I couldn't get Becka's bass turned down enough to keep it from being slightly overwhelming. I also couldn't hardly seem to get the reverb low enough to make it sound normal. Then during the (very) short break before the teaching I couldn't get the translation up and running. That one everyone noticed and of course curiously turned back to see what the problem was. We ended up just sitting someone beside those who needed translation and doing it that way.

Tell me again, why did I volunteer for this....