A friend and I decided to check out the local jazz festival......music and tech.
Swing stage with acts covering main stage change-overs:
New Mackie powered boxes (HD 1521, I think), 2/side vertical stacked (not horn to horn, just stacked) over some RCF subs
Main stage:
db dVA t4 rig, subs not flown but under stage
Both stages were very "labored", the swing stage simply running out of gas with the limiters constantly engaged. The Salsa band horns were actually louder by
themselves than the poor little PA. The main stage had a trio of piano, bass and drums and had very little between where the subs left off and about 1K. After
that it was all sort of metallic "clank" with a brutal bump at the MF/HF crossover. Good bands, lousy tech....but that's right in keeping with their "standards" over the years...... I had hoped that maybe this year they'd get it right.
We then went to hear a Brazilian quintet on a peripheral stage, but found that the stage had just shut down and the band was playing indoors at a "wine bar".
Two Yorkville 12" speakers on sticks for guitar, flute and vocal. Kit, bass and congas unmiked.
They sounded much better.
That's the way it was in St Paul on Saturday nite........
Swing stage with acts covering main stage change-overs:
New Mackie powered boxes (HD 1521, I think), 2/side vertical stacked (not horn to horn, just stacked) over some RCF subs
Main stage:
db dVA t4 rig, subs not flown but under stage
Both stages were very "labored", the swing stage simply running out of gas with the limiters constantly engaged. The Salsa band horns were actually louder by
themselves than the poor little PA. The main stage had a trio of piano, bass and drums and had very little between where the subs left off and about 1K. After
that it was all sort of metallic "clank" with a brutal bump at the MF/HF crossover. Good bands, lousy tech....but that's right in keeping with their "standards" over the years...... I had hoped that maybe this year they'd get it right.
We then went to hear a Brazilian quintet on a peripheral stage, but found that the stage had just shut down and the band was playing indoors at a "wine bar".
Two Yorkville 12" speakers on sticks for guitar, flute and vocal. Kit, bass and congas unmiked.
They sounded much better.
That's the way it was in St Paul on Saturday nite........