David Budries is sound engineer at The Grove House in Mariposa, CA, and he told us all about it... How long have you been running sound? How did you get into it?. I've been running sound since I was a sophomore in High School (1968). I was in a rock and roll band (keyboards) and we needed a sound guy. I loved the work, even though I knew very little at the time, I persisted. There were no sound mentors available to me at the time. I had to learn on my own, reading books about loudspeakers by Harry F. Olson and continually experimenting. My first "professional" gig was doing sound for Peter, Paul, and Mary at my high school in Port Chester, New York.