In a move to make us more potentially useful, a grip of us non-audio-nerds got shoved into a one-day seminar held by Yamaha's commercial audio training crew.  Full hands-on training of the super duper PM5D digital board, culminating with a nifty little paper handout stating I'm certified to touch one "for reals" now!

Shot was taken in a fairly dim room and I asked my buds there to stay still for a third of a second while I burned an image onto the CCD gained up to 1600 ISO.

The class was pretty great for me, while I already knew a fair amount of "I know what I want, so I poke shit till I get there" common tasks, the class gave me a ton of shortcuts and proper procedures.  I've been using digital Yamaha boards for years now, so I wasn't really too timid to begin with, but now I can't wait to dive into the FoH board and pester the real audio nerds with suggestions on how to make my video production audio signal from them "better".