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Sound engineers

The one staff role with a login: your own schedule, your own pay, the stage plots, and covering for each other.

Bar, floor, door and security are cost records with no login. Sound engineers are the exception and get an account, because unlike everyone else on that list they need to see what is coming and what it needs.

Getting an account

  1. The venue adds you to its staff roster and sends you a claim link.
  2. Open it and set up your account. The link works once, and it expires.
  3. Your shifts at that venue are attached to you from then on.

You can be on the roster of several venues, and your shifts across all of them appear in one schedule.

What you can see

  • Your own shifts, and your own pay for them.
  • Who is playing, plus their stage plot and tech notes if they have any on file.
  • Whether the shift is marked paid yet.
  • Shifts other engineers have asked for cover on, at any venue you work.

You never see the act's fee, another engineer's rate, or anything from the settlement side. Your own pay is the only number on the page.

Covering for each other

  1. Cannot work a night? Ask for cover on that shift.
  2. Other engineers on the same venue's roster see the open request.
  3. One of them takes it, and the shift becomes theirs.

An open cover request does not show the rate. Until somebody takes it, it is still another person's recorded pay — which means you decide on the night rather than on the number.

Taking cover does not need the owner's approval, and the shift keeps the rate it was created with. You are both on the roster because the owner put you there, so they have already said either of you may work the room — and a swap between engineers must never change what the venue agreed the night would cost.

Related

Staff, and what a night costsTrack who worked, what they were paid, and what a night actually cleared. Costs only — this is not payroll.Putting your calendar in your phoneSubscribe to your venue's dates, or to your own shifts, from any calendar app.What each person can seeYour numbers are yours. Exactly who sees what, and the one figure that leaks by arithmetic.