New Year's Eve Gigs
- Thread starter Lee Brenkman
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Sitting at the Birchmere with the Seldom Scene. And I am not working and feel no inclination to.
Sitting at the Birchmere with the Seldom Scene. And I am not working and feel no inclination to.
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Truth be told, now that everything is set up there's not a lot for me to do for the next 7 hours or so. As the club's "head tech" I'm required to be here for NY's Eve unless I'm more gainfully employed out of town and can find a sub acceptable to management.
Ben and Lou are the only members of the current "Scene" that I know but I'm sure the current lineup will sound just fine.
Truth be told, now that everything is set up there's not a lot for me to do for the next 7 hours or so. As the club's "head tech" I'm required to be here for NY's Eve unless I'm more gainfully employed out of town and can find a sub acceptable to management.
Ben and Lou are the only members of the current "Scene" that I know but I'm sure the current lineup will sound just fine.
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We had a wedding ceremony/reception at the hotel I work at. There was a bit of downtime, so I got to sneak out and grab the best seat in the area for the fireworks. Penn's Landing in Philly is a great place to work this time of the year...
(Pardon the small image size, but it's just an image still from the nearly 15-minute-long video of the show.)
We had a wedding ceremony/reception at the hotel I work at. There was a bit of downtime, so I got to sneak out and grab the best seat in the area for the fireworks. Penn's Landing in Philly is a great place to work this time of the year...
(Pardon the small image size, but it's just an image still from the nearly 15-minute-long video of the show.)
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Hello Lee.
Always fun to share.
I was hired by a club that had a cover band on stage. Nice young men with a great attitude on stage made the whole gig a lot more bearable despite a residual cold, difficult acoustics, less-than-great PA and so many people dancing on tables I literally could not see the stage or the PA for a full 30 minutes of the set...
Luckily, I was able to convince the client to hire me and one of my own mixers as a package including mics - giving me at least a fighting chance. I ran the stereo master into a matrix on the Yamaha DM 2000 to be able do get double the EQ filters. Some funky stuff going on either in the speakers or the black box that came with them - or both. I think I had close to 20 dB reduction below 120 Hz on my mains EQs. One top speaker was stacked so weird I just disconnected it to solve the issue. Massive amounts of about 1 kHz back up on stage from the mains, first time in a long time with feedback issues from the mains at soundcheck for me. Of course they needed 5 open vocals including one for drums. Luckily I had three Optogates and a Audix OM7 for the drummer, both helped out a lot. Got through it all in one piece with both client and band happy so all is good. No photo I'm afraid, but I'm sitting here thinkling about listening to a recording I made right now.
Happy new year!
Best regards,
Kristian Johnsen
Hello Lee.
Always fun to share.
I was hired by a club that had a cover band on stage. Nice young men with a great attitude on stage made the whole gig a lot more bearable despite a residual cold, difficult acoustics, less-than-great PA and so many people dancing on tables I literally could not see the stage or the PA for a full 30 minutes of the set...
Luckily, I was able to convince the client to hire me and one of my own mixers as a package including mics - giving me at least a fighting chance. I ran the stereo master into a matrix on the Yamaha DM 2000 to be able do get double the EQ filters. Some funky stuff going on either in the speakers or the black box that came with them - or both. I think I had close to 20 dB reduction below 120 Hz on my mains EQs. One top speaker was stacked so weird I just disconnected it to solve the issue. Massive amounts of about 1 kHz back up on stage from the mains, first time in a long time with feedback issues from the mains at soundcheck for me. Of course they needed 5 open vocals including one for drums. Luckily I had three Optogates and a Audix OM7 for the drummer, both helped out a lot. Got through it all in one piece with both client and band happy so all is good. No photo I'm afraid, but I'm sitting here thinkling about listening to a recording I made right now.
Happy new year!
Best regards,
Kristian Johnsen
RYAN LOUDMUSIC JENKINS
Sophomore
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I had a couple rentals out but didn't have to work any of it!
Unfortunately one of my kitty katties got very sick and almost died yesterday. My wife and I have been in the animal hospital all day. Hopefully the new year will treat him a little better. Had we been at an event, he wouldn't have made it.
I had a couple rentals out but didn't have to work any of it!
Unfortunately one of my kitty katties got very sick and almost died yesterday. My wife and I have been in the animal hospital all day. Hopefully the new year will treat him a little better. Had we been at an event, he wouldn't have made it.
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It's January 1 and my po feet are tired. I walked 10,000 trips over the river and through the woods to get to the ballroom at a fancy venue for a multiple act gig. On the plus side - I got some money - got to play a few tunes and nothing broke 8)~
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It's January 1 and my po feet are tired. I walked 10,000 trips over the river and through the woods to get to the ballroom at a fancy venue for a multiple act gig. On the plus side - I got some money - got to play a few tunes and nothing broke 8)~
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ah, new's years eve gigs. now i remember why i'm [semi] retired from the sound reinforcement biz...
spent 12/31/11 with friends, and was home in bed by 0100... don't miss watching the sun come up on my way home from my annual new year's gala gig one bit....
ah, new's years eve gigs. now i remember why i'm [semi] retired from the sound reinforcement biz...
spent 12/31/11 with friends, and was home in bed by 0100... don't miss watching the sun come up on my way home from my annual new year's gala gig one bit....
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NYE gig in a rural Berkshire bistro/pub with a female close harmony trio, The Pink Champagne Sisters. As the venue was small, used a EV ZX1 and QSC rig. A fine night of good music and good food.
Happy New Year to you all
Joe
NYE gig in a rural Berkshire bistro/pub with a female close harmony trio, The Pink Champagne Sisters. As the venue was small, used a EV ZX1 and QSC rig. A fine night of good music and good food.
Happy New Year to you all
Joe
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Had a nice gig with a name brand country act in one of the local casino theatres. Band was done by 12:30, we were out by 2am. Great show, got to work with one of my fave LD, and the 450ish folks in there had a blast. Great start to what I hope will be another busy year.
Had a nice gig with a name brand country act in one of the local casino theatres. Band was done by 12:30, we were out by 2am. Great show, got to work with one of my fave LD, and the 450ish folks in there had a blast. Great start to what I hope will be another busy year.
Robert "VOiD" Caprio
Sophomore
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I was right in the heat of it in Times Square... and then we did an after party at the Hard Rock Cafe. Cee Lo is getting tons of gaff for slightly altering Lennon's lyrics during his cover of "Imagine."
I was right in the heat of it in Times Square... and then we did an after party at the Hard Rock Cafe. Cee Lo is getting tons of gaff for slightly altering Lennon's lyrics during his cover of "Imagine."
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I hear that the "occupy times square" protest went off without a hitch and they left peaceably after the new years was properly ushered in.
JR
PS: NYC is probably possessive over Lennon since he lived there for a while.
I hear that the "occupy times square" protest went off without a hitch and they left peaceably after the new years was properly ushered in.
JR
PS: NYC is probably possessive over Lennon since he lived there for a while.