Great Big Sound Production

David Chichester is a bluegrass sound engineer whose profession began as a hobby that evolved into a career. He and his wife, Traci, own and operate GBS Productions (Great Big Sound) out of Ohio. He explained his audio company’s name. “Great big was a catch phrase before social media: “great big hair” or “great big” something. I just adopted Great Big Sound. My motto became ‘Life is too short, not to be heard’. “I got interested in playing music when I was 30 years old. I’m 65 now. I didn’t grow up with parents who played bluegrass. I just knew I liked it, and I wasn’t sure why. I decided I was going to learn to play guitar. Where I lived, outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia, there was a pretty good community of bluegrass pickers. They had jam sessions all summer at different places. I started going to those and liked it.”   His quest for music continued.  “I decided to learn to play the banjo, and I pretty much taught myself.” Then th