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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 7, 2008 2:07:22 GMT 1
Our regular Stanford Music Festival Gig; we luckily had very nice weather (albeit a bit blowy); didnt manage to blow anything up and it was packed in the field, around 400 people turned out, even stayed to the end! will add more pics later, these are what i took on my nokia n95 8gb the stage arrives It was a bit of a juggle with volume levels; seems like most people agreed wuith me as there was a perfectly straight line of punters from the booth backwards, hence only a couple of people visible here. Subs and tops were all Simon's lovely ANIMATION boxes, foh desk was Alln and Grief and Amps Crest - which is why my arms are now twice as long and i have a big bruise on my toe!
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Post by gingerbiscuit69 on Jul 8, 2008 11:18:50 GMT 1
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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 8, 2008 12:09:25 GMT 1
lol i love those lasers. I see the powersd that be have brought in some new laws about lasers - our guy had to aim them quite a way up - but we connected our big 50mw one up to my vans inverter and shone it on the clouds at 2am in the morning!!!
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Post by gingerbiscuit69 on Jul 8, 2008 15:40:54 GMT 1
yeah, these were aimed on the whole above head height all night, there was literally one pattern which happened to be in that pic which scanned a bit lower than the rest. being an illegal rave and all, health and safety doesnt matter so much.... (so much, still was rigged to a safe standard - 100kg rated clamps, truss spigotted and extra bolts used, scaff towers rated at 1ton each, safety bonds, rcd protected outputs on distro, on site medic, 'security' team with inears incase of trouble, fire extinguishers etc etc...). The main grounds for police to shut down a party is on grounds of health and safety. By complying to all outside event conditions, short of event licence (was private anyway), and being asked to turn down, they cant do much!
apparently could be heard 8miles away at some old biddys home at 2am, police came friday night, and very politely had a chat with us, asked us to turn down the kick bass a bit, and all was good. the next night, by our invitation, the same police came back off duty with mates in their casuals and joined in! full volume until 5am! haha, only young and irrisponsible once!!
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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 8, 2008 18:24:17 GMT 1
thats brilliant. so you get away with doing these gigs? i suppose it depemnds on your local plod - not sure our lot would be best pleased if i set a system up in a feild nearby
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Post by gingerbiscuit69 on Jul 8, 2008 19:11:39 GMT 1
this location was in the middle of nowhere. Had many parties there, and only had police this time as the PA was rediculously overspec'ed.
the rig was pointing into a 5mile woodland, the local village was 2miles to the right, my home town 6miles behind, and some more villages 8-10miles to the left. All of which, friends have told me the bassline was perfectly audible. the friday was a still night, so it didnt surprise me the sound travelled, saturday was wet and windy, which is why i think we got away with it so much.
in general, we were just lucky, its a one off as they are about to move out. his parents have partied there since the 70's, used to be the place to be, rolling stones used to be regulars back then, and the lighting company who did thin lizzy supplied their lighting! we are just carrying on the tradition.
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Post by gingerbiscuit69 on Jul 9, 2008 17:23:19 GMT 1
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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 26, 2008 18:14:11 GMT 1
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Post by Phil on Jul 27, 2008 21:33:36 GMT 1
what mons are you using there jim?
The dont look a bad size. I may have to find the spec and make a copy of them lol. Trying to keep things compact until 4 months down the line where i'm hoping to be driving and have a van
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Post by gingerbiscuit69 on Jul 27, 2008 22:34:00 GMT 1
did a gig this weekend, heres a selection of pics. Best large rig ive ever heard, amazing clarity and definition yet rediculously loud!! was split over a 3ph 63amp distro off a bloomin heavy 40m cable, 16mm cores. Nearing the end, the P3000's were just blinking on the limiters, and boy did u know when in front (or anywhere in the field really!). awesome yet knackering weekend. 50% of the cabs in one of the vans one of the two identical delay ampracks right FOH stack delay stack out of boredom inbetween sets... a band ML4000 on monitor dutys with me at the helm Monitor EQ and outboard, FOH amps more band pics from FOH headline band T-Rex
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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 28, 2008 10:10:59 GMT 1
mons are FBT verve units (i think) GB; where was this gig?
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Post by gingerbiscuit69 on Jul 28, 2008 10:47:02 GMT 1
bridgewater rugby club, pissed off many a local
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Post by John Bell on Aug 1, 2008 13:10:29 GMT 1
My rig at the Chinnor Bike Dayz X11 2008 The extension sockets on the top of the outboard rack had 2x power meters to monitor the sound genny's voltage and frequency. (213V, 47 hz). Everything worked OK though. John.
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Post by John Bell on Aug 1, 2008 13:39:26 GMT 1
BURN on stage at Chinnor
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Post by John Bell on Aug 1, 2008 13:57:17 GMT 1
BURN enjoying the stereo drum fill. It would have been too loud for me.
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