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A55M Live Production Technician

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

A Live Production Technician designs, configures, maintains, and operates concert sound reinforcement, lighting, and production systems for official Navy band performances. They work with microphones, mixing consoles, signal processors, monitor systems, loudspeakers, lighting consoles, digital multiplex systems, and audio and lighting cables while troubleshooting complete live production setups.

Core Skills

  • In-ear and onstage monitor mixing
  • Microphone placement by acoustic response
  • Audio signal routing and system troubleshooting
  • Lighting color and digital multiplex control

Civilian Career Paths

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Sound Engineering Technicians

Navy band experience configuring concert sound systems, placing microphones, operating mixing consoles, and balancing monitor mixes transfers directly to live-performance sound work.

How to prepare: Build a live-sound work sample with a stage plot, microphone input list, signal-flow diagram, and monitor-mix plan for a representative performance.

What the civilian work involves
  • Confer with producers, performers, and others to determine and achieve the desired sound for a production, such as a musical recording or a film.
  • Set up, test, and adjust recording equipment for recording sessions and live performances.

Lighting Technicians

Designing and operating Navy band lighting systems provides directly transferable experience in lighting color, console control, electrical safety, and system troubleshooting.

How to prepare: Create a sample concert lighting plot and console cue sequence that demonstrates color choices, digital multiplex control, and equipment safety checks.

What the civilian work involves
  • Assess safety of wiring or equipment set-up to determine the risk of fire or electrical shock.
  • Consult with lighting director or production staff to determine lighting requirements.
  • Install color effects or image patterns, such as color filters, onto lighting fixtures.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC A55M

    [1] NEC entry "A55M - Live Production Technician"; cached text line 1780; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: In-ear and onstage monitor mixing, Microphone placement by acoustic response, Audio signal routing and system troubleshooting, Lighting color and digital multiplex control, Sound Engineering Technicians (O*NET 27-4014.00), Lighting Technicians (O*NET 27-4015.00)

  2. O*NET: Sound Engineering Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Sound Engineering Technicians (O*NET 27-4014.00)

  3. O*NET: Lighting Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Lighting Technicians (O*NET 27-4015.00)

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