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<blockquote data-quote="Terry Fryar" data-source="post: 31865" data-attributes="member: 501">Re: Why did the KF cross the road?&nbsp;Not every time...but this show had people almost 180 degrees around the front of the stage running to about 15 feet behind the FOH stacks. Each 650 is only 60 degrees anyways. The front row was like 2 feet from the stage and since they were all on IEM, there were some small fills in the front center....and some waaay to the sides (even behind the 650 stack) to pick up the massive side crowd. We could have put 3 650&#039;s up I guess....but it wouldn&#039;t have covered the crowd &quot;behind&quot; the FOH stacks. All the fills were off matrix mixes, and it actually all sounded quite nice! You have to be very careful with horn loaded cabs and folks sitting close in lawn chairs for this type of show. You want even coverage at a moderate to low volume if possible.&nbsp;I do agree about the older musicians being easier...man...we&#039;ve had some fun with some of these guys! We did Joe Diffie once, and his boy is in his band. During soundcheck he sang this funny 4 minute song that sounded like one he&#039;s done a million times....it was hilarious! I asked the drummer about it and he said &quot;no...he just made that up&quot;....amazing! They also had an old H3K for monitors that was missing several channel strips. They had actually stored something inside the console (maybe tools/CD&#039;s??) where the missing strips were. I was like &quot;why don&#039;t you fix those?&quot;. Their mon guy was like...&quot;we&#039;re not gonna use em....plus it&#039;s a handy place to store so and so...&quot;. Man...good times!!&nbsp;The professionalism these guys have just astounds me! Aside from their obvious musical skill, they know how to get it done right....night after night...regardless of the gear, the crowd, or the situation. Maybe we should require young musicians to tour a couple of weeks with the older crowd to see how it&#039;s done? ;-)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Terry Fryar, post: 31865, member: 501"] Re: Why did the KF cross the road? Not every time...but this show had people almost 180 degrees around the front of the stage running to about 15 feet behind the FOH stacks. Each 650 is only 60 degrees anyways. The front row was like 2 feet from the stage and since they were all on IEM, there were some small fills in the front center....and some waaay to the sides (even behind the 650 stack) to pick up the massive side crowd. We could have put 3 650's up I guess....but it wouldn't have covered the crowd "behind" the FOH stacks. All the fills were off matrix mixes, and it actually all sounded quite nice! You have to be very careful with horn loaded cabs and folks sitting close in lawn chairs for this type of show. You want even coverage at a moderate to low volume if possible. I do agree about the older musicians being easier...man...we've had some fun with some of these guys! We did Joe Diffie once, and his boy is in his band. During soundcheck he sang this funny 4 minute song that sounded like one he's done a million times....it was hilarious! I asked the drummer about it and he said "no...he just made that up"....amazing! They also had an old H3K for monitors that was missing several channel strips. They had actually stored something inside the console (maybe tools/CD's??) where the missing strips were. I was like "why don't you fix those?". Their mon guy was like..."we're not gonna use em....plus it's a handy place to store so and so...". Man...good times!! The professionalism these guys have just astounds me! Aside from their obvious musical skill, they know how to get it done right....night after night...regardless of the gear, the crowd, or the situation. Maybe we should require young musicians to tour a couple of weeks with the older crowd to see how it's done? ;-) [/QUOTE]

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