Main Problem Areas in Live Sound

To aid with the further development of my project being centred around the field of live sound, I must ask myself the following question:

What are the main problem areas in live sound?

• Size of Venue
• Too small for equipment.
• Too small for crowd, particularly with well known bands.
• Large venues need careful placing of speakers to ensure the crowd far away from the stage can hear.
• Very small venues may have bad acoustics.
• Large venues may have a lot of reverb.Performances.

• Performances
• Inexperienced bands may be harder to get a good level for .i.e turning the volume up on their instruments and drowning each other out.
• Members of a band (particularly guitarists) may have a multitude of effects. This may be hard to get a good quality sound out of the desk if levels are forever changing with each effect.
• Bands may be using very low budget/quality equipment i.e. amps, guitars, microphones etc. This may also be true of the in-house equipment. This will also prove difficult to get a qualitative sound and good levels.