The SC - Wedding Flippity Flop 

I just completed 30 years of DJing and I have never felt so abused by wedding coordinators as I have the last ten years. I like to have a firm sense of what to expect and I get paid for "extra." My contract is pretty firm on when I am working and what is included AND what is considered additional service. That said, it is very difficult to argue with a wedding coordinator on the wedding day over the limits of your agreement in the heat of battle. I applaud the Sound Couple for rising above and helping out but I can't help but think there must be a courteous way to upsell the service for unexpected situations. Seems like if they were outside, the house would provide sound. The venue should provide inside sound as well. Love the channel. Perhaps I missed the bit where you were paid to provide sound outside too. I don't think this wedding would blink at the additional fee. What do you think?

A classic case of the show must go on - well done for being part of the solution and not part being of the problem! It looked a great party with a lot of people up dancing - you nailed it!

U guys look great! Cheers from Costa Rica!

It is very awesome that you two are flexible, and can "roll with the punches" as it relates to changes and additions. I hope the vendors recognize such service. Nice job!

Awesome video as always guys

Awesome video guys and at 30:43 is one of my favorite songs the band played 👏

ok the best sound ever

Amazing job guys A+…great band too👌👌

Definitely a win👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Y'all handled that gig very well. Proper Preparation

Always enjoy you're videos, I feel sound guys and ladies do not get the recognition they deserve, people, venues don't get how much work it is , not just the gig but also behind the scenes. Planning ,matinence, set up ect. Plus we are the first ones that the finger gets pointed at even when something is wrong and not our fault!!. Good job as always!! Look forward to all you're videos!!

It's always interesting to see how others deal with the unexpected surprise that inevitably comes up at gigs. Way to roll with the punches, you two!! One of the reasons I charge more for weddings, is just this very thing. There is ALWAYS something that comes up!! Last spring I purchased a pair of Electro Voice Evolve 50 column systems. I put them over a pair of 18" subs and have been pleasantly surprised at what they are capable of. I've used them at several weddings and besides being powerful enough to cover a room of 500+ people, for a 5 piece country/rock band, they take up very little real estate, which, as you know, is always a premium at a wedding event. Looking forward to more. Happy Thanksgiving!!

You guys do a great Job. I wish I could find a wedding/event band to work with. My gear sits more than it’s used although I am more of a hobbyist. I would still love to do it more. Just not good at marketing myself I guess.

Another great gig for the books. I love the fact that you're as flexible as you can be. 99% of the time, I'm going into events mostly blind; I ask for information but it's seldom forthcoming, so I've gotten used to being flexible. That said, it has gotten me repeat clients and more referrals work as time goes along.

No one can doubt but that The Sound Couple has some of the most stressful, yet amazing, gigs. This time between the rain, the relocated wedding ceremony, the very compressed timeframe for load-in and set-up, and the associated production demands, the professionalism and flexibility of Bart and Stacy shines through brilliantly. Once again, the Pecron came through excellently. Watching the navigation of the many issues at this gig was most instructive. Thanks to Bart and Stacy for allowing us to ride along this roller coaster of a wedding production.

good band!

This was nice.....

Hello 👋 Bart and Stacy from South Texas 🤠 . I love your videos I have learned a lot from them, 👍✨🛠🪜🧰🎶 ◾️🔈🔉🔊 Bart you have a beautiful, wonderful partner take care of her you’ll find another like yours . God Bess keep the videos coming.✨👍👋✨Be Safe always my friends The Sound Couple.📢📢

21:25 the Stupmtskys well that's big, bright and fuzzy.

I just supplied pa for wedding and the co ordinator said could I setup on the day but as due to size of venue and the dj and band were running through my desk and was using a line array system I had to setup the pa and lighting the day before so to avoid holding up the ceremony which the Co ordinator was happy with great video

You can mic an entire (well, almost) kit with one Shure SM57 using the "Wurst" method where by you place the microphone centered just above the kick aimed at the snare. It picks up the kick snare and the toms really well. The cymbals manage themselves.

Looks like a fun wedding! Great video. Good work powering through this chaotic setup. I cannot stand venues that expect vendors to pivot without communicating updated expectations. And like you said, if the venue was planning to provide ceremony sound, then why did that change when it was moved inside? I recently had a coordinator unexpectedly ask for a microphone and speaker for an outdoor beach ceremony while I was setting up reception PA...this was 5 minutes before the ceremony was scheduled 🤦‍♂️ it's not even about compensation at that point, just communicate expectations early.

Well done both of you, quick thinking to rescue the ceremony. Well all get it. “We’ve been told you’re providing a microphone?” Err, no, but lucky for you I’m prepared for your request! Then the best yet. “We’ve been told Fr John can get up and use your guitar to sing a song during your break?” Good job it was a charity do and I was feeling generous, but the audacity of some people 😂

15:00 your set up is nice. Well yes I'm a professional.

Have you ever tried one of the Bose L1 systems? I got one for backup/ when I need to set something up in a random spot. They are so small and easy to set up for stuff like a ceremony mic on the fly. Great video once again!

Good practice on the network. I don't know if that router supports it but sometimes you can enable the guest network to have access to the main network then you can just go in and toggle that on and off and change the password. like I like to use a four letter key word and the current year and then I can just change that every year. That's a good compromise to let bandmembers connect their phones but then you can hit the reset button and next month have a different password. Of course this does require that they're using a limited app. I know with the Barringer XR series there's no security and that is rightfully so handled by the network connection. And it's so easy to do bad security I much rather they not try and reinvent the security wheel and let something that has a chance of having reasonable security handle that. but it is nice when they offer an app that only let you control monitor mixes. You do have the downside of having to onboard band members to the network but at the same time you have the opportunity to set their app to only control there mix. I would also understand not doing this when you're feeding this with a data plan!!! Although a lot of devices are now getting smart to letting you choose that it's a metered connection in the Wi-Fi set up. I've been there and done data caps. At the same time I'm considering myself lucky cause I'm now on a grandfathered Sprint plan and that was 50 gigs which doubled to 100gb and I still have rollover and I can't make a dent. It's nice to be able to set up one thing and a router and then any device I pull out is connected and not fighting for the one bar of service at the venue.

Hi Bart and Stacey, I really like your videos and envy what you do. I m in a band and we setup our own PA system. However, i really appreciate if you would give us some tips to do this for full time.

Great video as always, off topic question, what do you guys think about the New CDL 10P coming soon? Thinking of getting those since they show to be lighter, smaller, with same Clarity!

I think that you should get more Pectron power units as you don't want everything to come to a complete halt because the battery was completely drained.

Hi Sound Couple, long time viewer first time commenter…I’m not too familiar with power stations, but do you happen to get any noise through the speakers when they are plugged into the pecron?

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Great watching your videos. I'd like to unofficially pick your brain. I'm considering installing 4 cdl12P's (2 each side, hanging from the ceiling) and 2 cdl 18 subs (1 each side on the floor beside stage) in a 50x50 with 25 foot ceiling room. With your experience with the cdl's, will that fill the room in your opinion? This would be a fixed install, with live full band contemporary style music.

For a while, I've been curious about the floor monitors you use. In the videos, they seem to require a little extra stage width. Why do you use them over more narrow (portrait when tilted) wedges, low profile floor monitors like EV's PXM, or really small mic stand monitors like Galaxy PA6BT? Not criticizing or trying to persuade. I'm just curious. Love your videos.

Out of black gaffers tape what's wrong with that it's a wedding it should be White gaffers tape. Most things I go into I always plan to have some sort of MC mic cause you never know what you're gonna have going on. Especially at a wedding. And I got a fun job of live streaming a wedding with apparently musical acts in the upcoming year, they booked a year in advance. I thought they were talking about 2023 and I'm like well a month I should be able to do that and then I find out it's a year later, sooo plenty of time to prepare. Totally get the environmental stress problem. And I usually plan to at least be able to play music for myself and for break music, so if worse comes to worse picking songs off the already paid for Spotify premium is not that big a deal for me. Although suddenly becoming the full-time DJ is a bit much last minute.

I wonder is that a licence that lets you use the music that was played at the wedding stay in the recording and played on RU-vid Just wondering.

When you have to support something unexpectedly like the ceremony, do you add a fee?

When everyone is in then that should calm the room acoustics down a bit.

Just wondering for speeches you go with a bandwidth of 300Hz to 3Khz Just wondering,

You have great gear, excellent sound skills - but part of why you get chosen and paid is that can-do approach. You could have the best rig, and amazing mixing skills - but if you can’t roll with the setbacks, and you emotionally let everyone around you “feel” your frustration - you’ll be sitting at home working on your advertising campaign and not doing gigs. Cudos to you both for just doing your best and making it work.

What’s the model peckron device?!

How many hours did the pecron last

Ok, just curious. When a DJ walks into a room what does one look like😎

People have no idea what it takes to setup a pro PA setup!

You guys look like mobsters in all black I think you should change your channel name to The Sound Mobsters lol what do you think. I dont see how you guys do it thats such a last minute change to do the ceremony I hope you were paid nicely for that change.

Maybe the Bride should have had a waterproof Wedding Dress and the Groom could have had something that would keep him dry.

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how does it take 7 months to post the video?

Do you have instagram?