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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Manchester" data-source="post: 4906" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>Now that the cable trunks are unpacked at the shop and I'm in my air conditioned office, I thought I would share about one of my July 4th shows and see if anyone else had any good ones. This year I was providing reinforcement for the Delaware Symphony Orchestra at one of the riverfront parks in Wilmington, DE. I opted for 5 of my S-Line line array loudspeakers for main cabinets, and 1 D&B B2 per side. The S-Line was all powered by macrotech 3600's and Lake processing. Unfortunately the budget didn't allow for flying of the cabinets, but with a seated audience and some ~4' tall stage deck helped. Because the park is sort of a half-bowl layout with the stage at the bottom, I was actually able to get a few degrees of curvature on the line which was nice. At one point a guy from the audience came up and told me he was impressed by the coverage of the rig!</p><p></p><p>What little frontfill I needed was handled by a pair of my proprietary 12+2" boxes. I had a few of my proprietary B-rig wedges on stage so a few of the actors reading the declaration of independence could have a little "confidence monitor" and hear themselves over the crowd noise.</p><p></p><p>Out at FOH I had my trusty DM2000. I opted to bring this board out because the orchestra plays with no soundcheck, and having the large meter bridge and analog gain knobs I can grab quickly really helped get things rolling.</p><p></p><p>I kept it simple and ran a little over a dozen inputs for the orchestra with some of my nicer mic options. Input list as follows: </p><p></p><p>Speech Mic 1: SM58</p><p>Speech Mic 2: SM58</p><p>Conductor vox: SM58</p><p>Violins 1: SM81</p><p>Violins 2: SM81</p><p>Flutes: KM184 </p><p>Woodwinds: KM184</p><p>Cellos: C414</p><p>Violas: Beta 57</p><p>Double Bass: C414 </p><p>Trumpets / Horns: SM57</p><p>Trombones / Horns: SM57</p><p>Harp: SM57</p><p>Percussion section: C535</p><p>Tympani OH: MD421</p><p></p><p>All in all it worked really well. The hardest part for me was the dynamics of the orchestra. We had a very noisy crowd of kids and chattery people so I had to use a little comp on the main output so I could keep the level up over the crowd noise but not kill people on the loud parts. </p><p></p><p>Here's a video slideshow with a little live recording of the performance: <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/videonetwork/1723497553001/Wilmington-celebrates-4th-of-July" target="_blank">http://www.delawareonline.com/videonetwork/1723497553001/Wilmington-celebrates-4th-of-July</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Manchester, post: 4906, member: 82"] Now that the cable trunks are unpacked at the shop and I'm in my air conditioned office, I thought I would share about one of my July 4th shows and see if anyone else had any good ones. This year I was providing reinforcement for the Delaware Symphony Orchestra at one of the riverfront parks in Wilmington, DE. I opted for 5 of my S-Line line array loudspeakers for main cabinets, and 1 D&B B2 per side. The S-Line was all powered by macrotech 3600's and Lake processing. Unfortunately the budget didn't allow for flying of the cabinets, but with a seated audience and some ~4' tall stage deck helped. Because the park is sort of a half-bowl layout with the stage at the bottom, I was actually able to get a few degrees of curvature on the line which was nice. At one point a guy from the audience came up and told me he was impressed by the coverage of the rig! What little frontfill I needed was handled by a pair of my proprietary 12+2" boxes. I had a few of my proprietary B-rig wedges on stage so a few of the actors reading the declaration of independence could have a little "confidence monitor" and hear themselves over the crowd noise. Out at FOH I had my trusty DM2000. I opted to bring this board out because the orchestra plays with no soundcheck, and having the large meter bridge and analog gain knobs I can grab quickly really helped get things rolling. I kept it simple and ran a little over a dozen inputs for the orchestra with some of my nicer mic options. Input list as follows: Speech Mic 1: SM58 Speech Mic 2: SM58 Conductor vox: SM58 Violins 1: SM81 Violins 2: SM81 Flutes: KM184 Woodwinds: KM184 Cellos: C414 Violas: Beta 57 Double Bass: C414 Trumpets / Horns: SM57 Trombones / Horns: SM57 Harp: SM57 Percussion section: C535 Tympani OH: MD421 All in all it worked really well. The hardest part for me was the dynamics of the orchestra. We had a very noisy crowd of kids and chattery people so I had to use a little comp on the main output so I could keep the level up over the crowd noise but not kill people on the loud parts. Here's a video slideshow with a little live recording of the performance: [url]http://www.delawareonline.com/videonetwork/1723497553001/Wilmington-celebrates-4th-of-July[/url] [/QUOTE]
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