Hi guys, I'm new here, hopefully this question finds you well.
I live in a small city. I work in a bar with a backroom for small parties and live acts. All the people working there are really nice and we are getting along very well. The sound guy is a really nice guy as well. Both me and the sound guy are in our mid 20s.
Recently, Im getting into DJing and played a few gigs in the room myself. I'm not properly educated on sound, and I'm not experienced in any way. But I really really enjoy a good sounding system. I'm happy with good quality 320kb mp3 on B&W headphones, or KRK Rokit, to give you a reference what good means to me. In general the sound in our back room is just not so good, I think the high gets deformed, the mids you cannot hear well and the bass is just a mess, a kick is not coherent at all. And that's actually already the case at low volumes.
A year ago there was some weird band playing with some kind of folk music, and another guy did the sound, I think he used to do it more regularly before. He is definitely a more experienced guy, and he used the same speakers but brought a different mixer. Volume was rather low. But it sounded super good! Also another time there was a party, and the organizer brought its own system, and it sounded super good as well. He build the system himself, I believe, and he had calibration equipment with him. Like a special mic with software. I asked him about the room acoustics, and he said the room wasn't too bad actually.
Before the second party I did, I texted the sound guy as friendly and politely as possible that I would like to tweak the sound a bit before the party, together with him, if that was okay by him. I wasn't comfortable with asking this, as I was more or less taking his seat and I didnt want to offend him, but yeah I want quality sound as well. He was really chill. We tried some different EQing, but nothing major. I couldn't really tell the difference. So that was that.
So, now I'm thinking about what to do again. In my ideal world an experienced sound engineer would try to get the most out of the setup. And my colleague, the sound guy, would not be offended at all. Realistically, I could ask this other sound engineer, to take a look at the setup some time and see what he can do with it.
But I really do not want to offend my colleague.
As most people in this sub are sound guys/engineers/girls, I was wondering have you feel about this. Do you have experience with other people (fucking DJs !!) interfering/meddling with you audio engineer work? How did you feel about that, and how did you go about it? Do you have any suggestions for me?
Ps. Writing this I realize I prefer to call the sound guy at my bar a sound "guy", instead of "engineer". Maybe that's already insulting? But I guess I perceive him of more being into the part of setting up a band and sound checking, and less about engineering the sound. But I guess I maybe should still call him a sound engineer, as that is what he is?