Last night I attended an awards banquet with my wife. She teaches at a charter school with multiple locations, and all of the Ohio schools came together to honor the honor-roll kids. In a 1,000 seat ballroom at a downtown hotel, I heard some very unprofessional audio mistakes, and it reminded me, sometimes it can be about what you don’t hear.

Recently, a friend of mine asked about miking up a kick drum. Currently, their drums are all acoustic and not run through the system. The drummer plays fairly quietly though, so the church tried putting a mic on the kick. According to Mark, there was a rattle in the monitors. My first thought was, “A quiet drummer?? Is there such a thing?!”