Okay, before we go to work, let's just go through a few of the prerequisites that we have for our working environment. Let's start off with the health and safety or PP equipment. First things first, steel toed shoes, hard hat for them both in my bag hair. It's very important. Wear a hard hat particularly in a situation where there are people working at height, especially if we're flying lights. There it goes climbing up in the roof, very many stages these days.
It is a prerequisite that you wear a hardhat whilst there are people working in the roof, certainly in any of our large venues do to arena for example, the Albert Hall, the stage will become a hardhat environment as soon as there are people climbing in the roof. So a hardhat very important, very cheap and easy to buy this doubles is my cycling helmet actually. And that's perfectly adequate. Here's steel toe cap shoes, same kind of thing, again, very cheap, very easy, a little bit of a pain to carry around with you. But really important when you're loading a truck, or particularly, if you're dealing with state sanctioned steel deck, and it's not really having stuff, it's quite okay to put them on for your load and then take them off and work in sneakers for the rest of the day. That's entirely acceptable behavior, but you really should have them.
I also think it is a really good idea to have high vis vest like this. Just particularly if you're working at night, and you're not working in a floodlit area, particularly as the protocol of our business is that one should really wear black, high vis is a really good thing. Just to make sure that you're not run over by That crazy forklift driver up at one o'clock in the morning on the festival site just because he hasn't seen yet. Okay, that's the health and safety requirements fulfilled. There are a few other things I might say about clothing. It's a really good idea to wear combat trousers, something like Cockney like this.
Plenty of pockets. I favor these guys because you can zip the legs off, make them into shorts, saves you having to carry two pairs around. I was worried about some people like to work like my colleague, Luke here likes to wear his tools on his belt. The other things that as a sound engineer you should bring to work with you. First and most obvious pair of headphones. Secondly, some tape, some pens, some marking equipment.
I'm quite enthusiastic about marking Equipment generally. So I tend to carry around with me lots of colored tape. I also carry some cloth tape as well as regular plastic tape. This serves really well for marking the floor at the stage or the speaker cabinets, particularly when spiking a stage that is changing from one actor to another. Also, I will always carry a flashlight. This is one thing I do wear on my belt because it's really handy.
Even in the daylight you never know when you're going to need to stick your head into the back of an AMP rack or somewhere where it's not particularly easy to see well. I usually carry a selection of marker pens around with me. Different colors. This is again, my stationary obsession coming to the fore here. Lots of colored pans, different sizes and shapes, some thick some thin, something marking the stage some writing on strips. It's tight.
Spire torch or flashlights really good idea, especially if you're as good at losing them as I am. I think I usually carry a knife. But yes, there it is. This is the smallest version of the Swiss Army knife. This The reason I favored This particular one is because you can fly with it it's not regarded as a dangerous or offensive weapon. And you can have this in your hand baggage in the cabin of an aircraft, whereas Lucas knife although much more useful than mine is my patients.
Yes, it certainly is. It is actually though an illegal weapon if you carried out in a public place. I generally carry a few other little bits and pieces around with me that I know are going to be useful. I always for example, have an iPod for that emergency playback situation. I also carry a bunch of USB sticks around with me because you know Never know if you're going to need to transfer information from one place to another quickly. One of these USB sticks has got some audio on it for the testing out of cdjs.
Should that become necessary? Should you be unfortunate enough to have to do that for a living? Okay, there you go. That's generally what I've got in my bag. Justin, I'm going back to the headphones. Which one do you recommend?
Well, they use our Hd 25 those are kind of an industry standard, but whatever suits you really, I tend to go with something that's a major manufacturer of short Sony or Sennheiser really. Okay, I think that's about all we need to pick up and go to work well, we