So I'm sitting on the couch now, but I had a pretty full week starting on wed. I have a day job so sound gigs during the week is odd... Anyway gig one, public high school gym in 40 degree weather (Celsius), no a/c. I set up a small 650 rig for a 3 piece act from Scotland (Isla grant). I'm at the point of powering up my mh2 out front and rack, then blip, no power!
I headed up to the amp rack area where I'm pulling foh power from a motion lab rack pack in the amp rack. It's only indicating power on one leg...hmmmm so I check the breaker that's feeding my stove plug to 30 amp twist, reset it, and check the connections. I find the twist lock had suffered some physical damage (dragged and scrapped the connector to the point of disfiguring it causing the internal pin to be loose. So I cut off that end change it, fixed...
The rest of the show went well except for the extra heat generated by the 300 or so attendees.
Thursday we head to the next venue which was playing the width of an old drill hall.
So I hang 4 boxes of kf730 and use the 650s as out fill and 4 ev fri 2082 as front fill. That in goes well, nice coverage, but while I was playing some music before the band showed, the whole building goes dark, then surges up, then dark again...F#€*. Brown out from hydro overload in town, probably for everyone using a/c.... Earlier when I metered the stove plug initially it read low, like 219 across the hots... So Once the power came on for a steady 15 minutes I powered up again, only one of my plx was now generating a buzz in the high end section of the array.... Great, right when the band BE shows up. So I explain we had low power, and lost power and had to re-patch the highs (from two bridge mono amp, to one in stereo). So I do that, and they complete sound check... I place a call to the town hydro provider and they send someone over, turns out the town was getting fed "low" from the provincial provider, so they bump up the voltage somehow, and I really did see my Furman change from two yellows LEDs (about 105) to showing three green. Anyways couple minutes into the show, another power loss, this mutes the DBX drive rack so I bolted to the stage to unmute the monitors....
I'm hating hydro at this point, but the show goes to the end, and we load out rather quickly considering there was only 3 of us.
Friday, the show is in a public school theatre, soft seater so back to the 650 rig, we load in and setup without incident. I play in a bar band, so I head back home and leave that rig with my dad to babysit the BE. I play my show and get in at 2am with text updates from my production show, all good.
Saturday, 9am setting up for a three piece national blues/ rock act, David Wilcox, an arena show ( playing the width of the arena against my advice). So we load in and set up my full A rig. There were challenges here, the house man lift had contact issues, the extreme heat, and being tired from what has transpired to date, Oh ya forgot to mention I put my back out sat past, and could only stand properly Wednesday. After the band was settled I went back to my to my playing gig sat night with text updates from my dad, the show was a success. Went back this morning to finish loading it out. I don't feel guilty writing this from the couch...mind you my back is killing me again, chiro at 5 tomorrow...
Hope everyone else had a great weekend. This weekend is Canada day( your version of July 4th), thank god my gig is in one spot, doing classic country bands.
I headed up to the amp rack area where I'm pulling foh power from a motion lab rack pack in the amp rack. It's only indicating power on one leg...hmmmm so I check the breaker that's feeding my stove plug to 30 amp twist, reset it, and check the connections. I find the twist lock had suffered some physical damage (dragged and scrapped the connector to the point of disfiguring it causing the internal pin to be loose. So I cut off that end change it, fixed...
The rest of the show went well except for the extra heat generated by the 300 or so attendees.
Thursday we head to the next venue which was playing the width of an old drill hall.
So I hang 4 boxes of kf730 and use the 650s as out fill and 4 ev fri 2082 as front fill. That in goes well, nice coverage, but while I was playing some music before the band showed, the whole building goes dark, then surges up, then dark again...F#€*. Brown out from hydro overload in town, probably for everyone using a/c.... Earlier when I metered the stove plug initially it read low, like 219 across the hots... So Once the power came on for a steady 15 minutes I powered up again, only one of my plx was now generating a buzz in the high end section of the array.... Great, right when the band BE shows up. So I explain we had low power, and lost power and had to re-patch the highs (from two bridge mono amp, to one in stereo). So I do that, and they complete sound check... I place a call to the town hydro provider and they send someone over, turns out the town was getting fed "low" from the provincial provider, so they bump up the voltage somehow, and I really did see my Furman change from two yellows LEDs (about 105) to showing three green. Anyways couple minutes into the show, another power loss, this mutes the DBX drive rack so I bolted to the stage to unmute the monitors....
I'm hating hydro at this point, but the show goes to the end, and we load out rather quickly considering there was only 3 of us.
Friday, the show is in a public school theatre, soft seater so back to the 650 rig, we load in and setup without incident. I play in a bar band, so I head back home and leave that rig with my dad to babysit the BE. I play my show and get in at 2am with text updates from my production show, all good.
Saturday, 9am setting up for a three piece national blues/ rock act, David Wilcox, an arena show ( playing the width of the arena against my advice). So we load in and set up my full A rig. There were challenges here, the house man lift had contact issues, the extreme heat, and being tired from what has transpired to date, Oh ya forgot to mention I put my back out sat past, and could only stand properly Wednesday. After the band was settled I went back to my to my playing gig sat night with text updates from my dad, the show was a success. Went back this morning to finish loading it out. I don't feel guilty writing this from the couch...mind you my back is killing me again, chiro at 5 tomorrow...
Hope everyone else had a great weekend. This weekend is Canada day( your version of July 4th), thank god my gig is in one spot, doing classic country bands.
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