How much money should I be making running sound?

Posted on Mar 15, 2010 03:09 am
agamble
Member Since: Dec 19, 2009

Last weekend, my former roomate's band played a two night set at a fairly large bar in Toledo, Ohio. I showed up to night one as a spectator supporting my friends and their music. There were around 300 people in the bar. The band was running bass drum, bass guitar, guitar, and vocals through a 6 channel powered mixer that was powering two ancient 150 watt Peavey 15's. The sound was bad to put it nicely. I showed up night two with my harbinger 152's and Cerwin Vega EL36C as the sound guy. The band is the most legitimate 3 peice bar band I've ever heard, so the potential to be great was there. They just needed some low end and enough channels on the board to mic the drums. I am quite pleased to say that my and my gear's contributions to the success of the performance did not go unoticed by the band, the audience, or the bar staff. I was hired by the band as the every gig sound guy. I may get more work at that bar, as well. This is all well and good, but I don't want to go into this situation and get caught with my pants down. I was offered 10% of the band's cut. I negotiated 15%, but still feel this might be a little slim. They are making $1000 a weekend. As it stands now, I get 150$ to set up and tear down once, and run two nights of sound, 4 hrs per night. So my question is this: Are my pants down?

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