Freida Olds
FOH Mixer
Trinity Chapel
Powder Springs, Ga.
Trinity Chapel.org
678.333.5485
freida.olds@gmail.com
Services Provided: Front of house mixer
Clients: Family Force 5, Trinity Chapel Church (12K people)
Quote: “Front of house is seldom seen, but always heard.”
Personal Info: Been in music all my life — not as an engineer, but as a musician. By default, I became an engineer, although music was always my passion. My husband is a writer and singer and all three of my boys are in a band, Family Force 5.
I’ve worked in different venues: many churches, large festivals, CBGBs, Viper Room, The Roxy and Hard Rock. I guess I'm quite a novelty. When I am out with the boys, people assume I am just mamma — never that I can kick butt and take names all at the same time.
Women are great multi-taskers and have great ears. I’m not a technician, but I consider the board an instrument that can be played. The picture is of me working and watching my grandson, Cash, at the church during New Year's Eve 2007. I very much enjoy what I do. They call me “Digi woman.”
Hobbies: Music — my passion, reading, antiquing, playing piano, my grandson.
Equipment: I love my Digidesign Venue with the big package plug-ins, SLS line of arrays, EAW subs, Lab.gruppen power amps, Neumann, Beyer, Sennheiser mics, Shure IEM, Aviom personal mixers.
Don’t leave home without: “A sharpie, board tape and now my thumb drive. Was always analog, but baby look at me now!"
