Part of a concert that I ran sound at

stephen.g.fiddes · #1 03-04-2010, 10:56 PM

This was performed at a concert that I ran sound at for my school. These guys kicked some major A$$!

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh1zPEBzGPg[/YT]

smakes · #2 03-04-2010, 11:02 PM

oh so your a techie...

you sound guys think your so special with your 6 foot 500 pound consoles lol.

take a look at the lighting console i used to run.

Product Features

10000 channels (devices)
4000, 8000, 12,000 and 16,000 outputs/parameters
Dedicated master playback fader pair
10 definable motorized faders, with 30 pages of control
999 cue lists
200 active playbacks
300 submasters
3 programmable grand masters
Dedicated pan/tilt or XYZ encoders, 4 pageable encoders
2 15" LCD touchscreens
High-density live and blind displays
Electronic magic sheets
Net3T (ACN based) and ETCNet2T native
Multiple MIDI and SMPTE Inputs
Client/server networking and synchronized backup
Offline programming on PC (Vista or XP) and native on Macintosh (OS X Power PC or Intel)
Data-laundering from obsession, express/ion, emphasis and Strand 500/300 series show files via ASCII
12 discrete on-line users with partitioned control
6 - Multipurpose USB bus (pointing devices, keyboard, touchscreens, flash drives)

dont ask me how the facility manager talked my school into giving him 15 grand for a console. oh no wait, we had 15 VariLite 500's and 15 VL 1000's too

stephen.g.fiddes · #3 03-04-2010, 11:07 PM

DUDE! I'm so jealous... lol I had to work hard to get my school to buy our new yamaha 32 channel analog board! (which was around $600 i think) I wanted a digital board soooooo bad. would have made a concert with 20 different groups playing in one night, one song per group, a whole lot easier.

smakes · #4 03-04-2010, 11:14 PM

dude we had a... dammit i cant remember the name of the sound board we had. it was HUUUUUUGE.

stephen.g.fiddes · #5 03-04-2010, 11:17 PM

allen & heath, Soundcraft, uhh, damn... ive been at basic/AIT for the last 6 months... i forgot a lot of the brands and prices.. lol.

Someday I will have a digi board, that I can hook up to my computer. ive used one once (on a jobshadow for the band Pillar) and fell in love. (it was a yamaha, MX something or another.)

smakes · #6 03-04-2010, 11:24 PM

ahh i figured out the name. our analog one was an soundcraft europa, and we had a sick digital yamaha M7CL

europa

yamaha

stephen.g.fiddes · #7 03-04-2010, 11:38 PM

M7! Thats what it was... where did i get the X? lol

Ive used that soundcraft (slightly smaller version) and thats one of the best analogs ive used.

...I want your setup.. all of it... lol

Unfortunately what i use, is a lot smaller... cause we have no money... if we had money, I could definately use what you have tho.

The board/rack I usually use

What I use for the larger gigs.

A few of the speakers we use (our 4 main, 2x15", 2"tweeter, 2JBL, 2 wharfdale, 2-1x15" 2"tweeter yamaha)

We also have a few other 1x15's, a couple 1x12 monitors, and 2 1x18's. No subs, cause in our school, we have absolutely no need for subs, because of how bass heavy the auditorium and Gym are. Also have another 24 channel board, thats about 8 years old, but still works. an 800 watt amp, 2 600W, 2 400W. As well as all the cables, mics, stands, adapters, and a couple wireless mics. You know how all that goes tho lol.

smakes · #8 03-04-2010, 11:41 PM

dude. i never took pics of our setup but ill try to get some soon. youd shit yourself at how much money the facility manager manged to talk the school out of.

stephen.g.fiddes · #9 03-04-2010, 11:43 PM

i shit myself every time im able to convince my manager to buy some new equipment... its not that he doesnt want to, our school just doesnt put money where it needs to go lol... Where are you from? I'll try to remember to get some pics of what i'll have set up next weekend at a small show... itll use the big board tho.

smakes · #10 03-04-2010, 11:44 PM

southern cali.

this is the website for the auditorium

http://www.highlanderauditorium.com/

stephen.g.fiddes · #11 03-04-2010, 11:48 PM

damn.. thats depressing... lol... thats the kinda setup i have always dreamed of having... like, almost exactly... I LOVE the M7, plus all your DSP stuff, (I do have a drive-rack, which i love...) and the lights!... and your auditorium is about 5x the size of ours... lol

smakes · #12 03-04-2010, 11:52 PM

dude we have 5 electrics, a cyc wall (we can change the color of the wall to w/e we want)
AP lights, 2nd AP lights, and a ton of other lights lol. i had to re focus half the lights after a decent earth quake and i thought i was going to go crazy stuck up in our man lift. we also have a big ass Genie man lift that can turn on a dime, damn that thing was fun to drive.

stephen.g.fiddes · #13 03-05-2010, 12:01 AM

Idk what our theater has... I was part of the guitar program at my school, but I know they had a pretty good light board, for not having a large screen. But the guitar program is FINALLY buying some lighing equipment, and hopefully I can convince him to get some chouvet robo-lights... Those are amazing. He's buying a (small) controller that'll handle that. Well upgrade in the future if we decide we want to get into the lighting heavily.