Jeff - Teacher Sound Coach - Sound Amazing LLC

Don’t wait until Tech Week to start your tech crew.

Give student repeatable jobs early in the year.
Let them practice during assemblies and concerts.
Celebrate their progress and make the crew feel like a club.
When your musical arrives, you’ll have trained helpers—not 8,000 new questions.

When could your students practice their first setup?

Grab my free checklist to quickly improve your sound through the link in my bio.

Body mics do not belong in school stage monitors.
That move usually gives you
more feedback
less clarity
and a harder show to mix
Use monitors just for pitch and rhythm help instead. Try track or piano only in monitors.

One of the biggest audio breakthroughs for teachers is finally understanding the difference between mic level and line level.

In this excerpt from my course, I walk through the various levels that may be arriving at your mixer

Part 2: Setting gain the simple way.

If you’ve ever wondered, “How loud should I set the gain?”… this is the method I teach.

The Hey-HEY method takes the guesswork out of gain staging and gives you a quick, repeatable way to get clean, strong sound before rehearsas even start.

Have you ever been taught a simple way to set gain? 🎤

Save this for your next sound check and share it with another music or theatre teacher who runs sound.

Distortion? Check GAIN first.

Gain = the “how hard is the preamp working?” knob.

If the peak/overload light flashes… back it down.

PAD button? It’s a level reducer.

What label does YOUR mixer use—Gain, Trim, HA, or something else?

The response from professional audio engineers has honestly been one of my favorite surprises on this journey.

Thank you.

I know many of you have decades of experience and could solve problems with measurement mics, analyzers, RF coordination, and years of hard-earned knowledge.

If I may… The teachers I’m trying to help don’t have any of that yet.

Most never took a single audio class. Yet they’re expected to run concerts, musicals, assemblies, awards ceremonies, talent shows, and countless other events.

My goal is to meet them where they are.

Simple wins.
Free improvements.
Confidence first.
Then a roadmap toward better systems.

If you’re a professional engineer, I’d be honored if you’d help me create the most encouraging corner of the internet for elementary teachers learning sound.

A little encouragement at the right moment can change a teacher’s entire career—and ultimately help thousands of kids be heard.

ElementaryMusic

Those numbers on your mixer are just labels for what your ears already know. 🤖➡️🎶

Here’s the EQ numbers map:
20–40 = rumble
40–80 = SUB bass punch
80–250 = warmth/boom
250–2k = voices (and 300 Hz mud in big rooms)
2–6k = clarity (“sss / tuh / kuh”)
6–20k = brightness / air

🎯 Trivia: Why did 440 Hz matter to the music industry as early as 1834?

Drop your answer in the comments 👇

Want the teacher-friendly system for learning sound (without the overwhelm)? Tap the link in my bio.

This elementary school is where it all started.

In second grade, a pair of classroom headphones stopped working. Most kids handed them back to the teacher and asked for another pair.

I wanted to know why they stopped working.

That little moment sparked something in me. It wasn’t really about the headphones. It was about discovering that broken things have reasons they’re broken… and that if you’re curious enough, you can often figure them out.

Looking back, I don’t think I was fixing just headphones that day. I was discovering the path I’d spend the rest of my life on.

Since then I’ve repaired electronics, built recording studios, designed sound systems, solved technical problems for schools, and now I help elementary music teachers create performances where every child can be heard.

Funny how a broken pair of headphones in second grade can quietly shape an entire career.

Did you have a childhood moment that hinted at what you’d eventually become?

If your school sound system still feels like a mystery, this summer could be the turning point.
Because next spring is coming.
The concert.
The musical.
The packed room.
The parents listening for every word their child says.
And if nothing changes, the same problems may show up again:
Feedback.
Mic dropouts.
Guessing at the mixer.
Stress during tech week.
Parents saying, “I couldn’t hear my kid.”

That does not have to be your story next year.
You probably were not taught audio systems in Music Ed.
But you can learn now.

My free checklist, book, and course were created to help elementary music and theatre teachers make real improvements right away.
And the course goes deeper.
Hear the Kids! A Teacher’s Guide to Sound System Mastery will show you how your sound system works, what the controls do, and how to prepare your system so your next show sounds great.

Buy it now, with school funding if you can, and learn sound over the summer.

The worst time to figure out your sound system is during tech week.
The best time is before the pressure is on.
Course, book, and free checklist are in the link in my bio.