Christening — Sillamäe

Most christening halls in Sillamäe have brick or tile, and both throw sound straight back. A crying baby at one end reaches the other wall as clearly as if the child were beside you, which means every toast, every reading, and every attempt at a speech competes with itself on a quarter-second delay. You cannot fix the room, so the microphones have to.

The other risk is timing. Families span three generations, someone drives from Narva, someone else from Tallinn, and the window in which everyone is present and the infant is calm is about ninety minutes. If the sound check eats twenty of those because a cable was missed or a input gain set wrong, the afternoon is already behind.