Had a show last night as part of my winter bluegrass series with one of the top tier bands.
Room is a renovated timber framed milk barn. It comfortably holds about 130 people in theater style seating with about 25 of them on a small balcony. We call 130 a sell out, and had 120 last night. This past summer we added a significant amount of acoustic treatment based on a survey and design by an acoustician.
It takes me about 20 minutes to load in, and about an hour to setup and patch the stage working solo. That includes audio, lights and the stage drapes. That is a leisurely pace, with no real time constraints
The band arrived and patched in their monitor mixer via my poor man's split for their iems. They spent maybe 10 minutes checking their mix while I pulled gains out front. I pushed up the mains (simply K10's on tripods), the rough mix was an adequate starting point and everyone was happy after a couple of songs.
The first set started, and after a couple of songs I had my compressor thresholds on the instruments where I wanted them. The rest of the show, I didn't need to do much but slightly adjust the vocal levels according to which member was taking the lead.
Show was a nice comfortable 90 DBA slow with some higher peaks. There was not a hint of feedback or distortion, and my spot checks showed a very consistent sound seat to seat including the balcony.
No power problems, no rf problems in either the analog ears or the wifi they used to mix their monitors.
Two and a half hours of great music. I packed up and loaded out in under an hour, and then headed home.
While a certain amount of my technique was learned via the school of hard knocks, a great deal is due to 10(?) years hanging around the forums. The way I mix, the way I troubleshoot, the products I use, and my passion for control via measurement are the result of a long list of discussions.
Just so people don't think it was an absolute perfect show, I did miss a que for the announcers mic, and I learned that the microphone in my phone is basically useless for Facebook live, as it goes from no level at all straight to overload.
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Room is a renovated timber framed milk barn. It comfortably holds about 130 people in theater style seating with about 25 of them on a small balcony. We call 130 a sell out, and had 120 last night. This past summer we added a significant amount of acoustic treatment based on a survey and design by an acoustician.
It takes me about 20 minutes to load in, and about an hour to setup and patch the stage working solo. That includes audio, lights and the stage drapes. That is a leisurely pace, with no real time constraints
The band arrived and patched in their monitor mixer via my poor man's split for their iems. They spent maybe 10 minutes checking their mix while I pulled gains out front. I pushed up the mains (simply K10's on tripods), the rough mix was an adequate starting point and everyone was happy after a couple of songs.
The first set started, and after a couple of songs I had my compressor thresholds on the instruments where I wanted them. The rest of the show, I didn't need to do much but slightly adjust the vocal levels according to which member was taking the lead.
Show was a nice comfortable 90 DBA slow with some higher peaks. There was not a hint of feedback or distortion, and my spot checks showed a very consistent sound seat to seat including the balcony.
No power problems, no rf problems in either the analog ears or the wifi they used to mix their monitors.
Two and a half hours of great music. I packed up and loaded out in under an hour, and then headed home.
While a certain amount of my technique was learned via the school of hard knocks, a great deal is due to 10(?) years hanging around the forums. The way I mix, the way I troubleshoot, the products I use, and my passion for control via measurement are the result of a long list of discussions.
Just so people don't think it was an absolute perfect show, I did miss a que for the announcers mic, and I learned that the microphone in my phone is basically useless for Facebook live, as it goes from no level at all straight to overload.
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