More Show Pics
Hi All,
Here is a show we did tonight with Trombone Shorty, and JJ Grey and Mofro.
It was sold out; those are two acts who can really put on a show. The crowd was jumpin' the whole night.
Here is a view of most but not all of the field; there are close to 5,000 people there. Mix position looks like it's off to the side, but it's right in the middle in front of the stage. The field is asymmetrical, and the picture is taken from the farthest point. There are more people behind the trees to the left and off camera to the right.
Again (same as earlier post on p. 342, #6825 about shows at the same place) , we had X32's on FOH and mon. That was the only console present.
Because we could, we had spares at FOH and at Monitor world, as well as my monitor engineer's personal X32 (which he brought for me to take away and check out after it had been serviced in Las Vegas for a problem I have vociferously discussed here, and which was purportedly fixed - more on that later).
The spares never left their cases.
Both BE's had never worked with the console before, but were interested in checking it out. It took a little over a minute to get each one comfortable with it (I'd already done the channel labeling and set up a scene for each).
One of them said he grew up with Midas's (his very first show was on an XL4, a statement which I didn't quite comprehend although I was happy for him and pointed out that his career has been downhill from there), and he felt that as soon as he heard the other guy mixing that it sounded like a Midas. He was convinced, and I didn't feel qualified to argue.
He really liked the effects, said they were very complete, useful, and sounded good. He felt the compression was musical no matter how hard you hit it.
The other fellow mixed dry with no effects or compression.
Both were really, really happy with the mix, the ergonomics, and the sound. I don't think either one did any EQ beyond channel strips. Both were also happy that it was so easy to get around on, and just walk up and use.
Here is my guy Matt on monitors with Shorty. I think we did 8 or 9 mixes tonight.
We're using wedges as sidefills because that's what was asked for.
Each band was about 22 inputs and there were two sets of completely separate rental backline. The changeover including striking drums/B3/guit amps etc. took 8 minutes, ready for line check. We used separate mics/mic stands/subsnakes etc.
Here's a pretty picture just after dusk.
He liked having his reverb and delay instantly accessible.
This was a very nice day.
I promise I won't post any more pictures of this one gig so that it doesn't get boring.
Thanks,
Dan
(son of a...:evil::evil::evil::evil
(give me some times)
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