Why do you need a sound man?? Why can't you just do it all yourself... Then you don't have situations like that...... I do all my stuff unless a venue that I'm playing has their own sound man... In that instance... they know more about the venues sound system than I could pretend to... so I yield to them... But yeah, I don't need someone to tell me how to set my own equipment... Lose the extra baggage, I guess that's what I'm trying to say... haha.