Hi we're looking for one sound engineer for a seven hour call on Saturday Nov. 14, 2026 from 3:30pm to 10:30pm at a small private jazz supper club to mix and record a vocalist/pianist and a jazz guitarist playing two sets for 30 guests at dinner. Cash paid at end of night. The gear is ours and new — a Zoom LiveTrak L12next into two hung Yamaha DXR12s and a wedge, Rode M5 pair on a Kawai upright, Earthworks SR314 on the vocal, SM57 on a guitar amp, a host mic, a room pair at the back — you bring headphones and your ears. You'll mic it, sound check with the artists at 5:30, mix the room, record every channel plus the stereo mix to SD, clap a slate for the video guy, hand me the files, and strike. The room is acoustically treated and the audience actually listens, so this is a quiet, dynamic gig, not a bar. Sober on shift from load-in to load-out. Help me separate the real engineers from the posers — tell me in two sentences why we pick you: you've mixed quiet acoustic music in a small room, you know a Zoom LiveTrak or something like it, you're calm with musicians and your first word to them is yes. Then answer this one so I know you're not a bot and you've actually done this: a singer with a quiet verse and a big chorus is on a condenser mic in a 30-seat room with two speakers hung over the stage — where do you set her gain at sound check, what do you do about the chorus, and what's the first thing you check when the room starts to ring? Engineers who've recorded live jazz go to the front of the line. If you're able there's $75 for a one-hour dry run at the room on Wed Nov. 11 and $150 to mix two songs afterward for our Instagram, and this could be a monthly gig through February. I appreciate you taking the time to reply; we got buried with replies last time so I apologize in advance if I can't respond to everyone.
