For Josh About Subs
I was going to comment over at Josh Evan’s blog, SPL140-WWJD regarding a comment he made on his current trip to Mexico. The blog doesn’t allow comments or trackbacks, though. Josh is one of the good young minds entering the biz today, not as a mixer per se, but as a support guy at SIA Soft/Loud/EAW/Mackie/whatevermusogearthoseguysfromfloridawithcontrolofthepursestringshavethembuy. And of course, Crazy Uncle Kenny ™. Josh is a really sharp kid that’s passionate about the biz but every now and then he says something that makes me go “HUH???!!!!”. But then again, I’m old…
Day one of two in mexico. Kenton arrived last night. We have a great setup. They will be filming the presentations, 730s sound pretty good (its hard to screw them up) sb1000 sound out, pretty good the a front loaded clam shell. Id rather have a bh760 or array of la400. That’s a big problem in our industry. Not enough use of horn loaded subs. And people don’t know how to demo them against a front loaded sub.
Not enough use of horn loaded subs? Dude, you gotta be shittin’ me. SB1000s are the best sub EAW has ever made. LA400? Surely you jest? (can I call you Shirley?). The BH760, IMNSHO is a one trick pony and not that good at it. For killer subs, not just from EAW but from anybody, it’s all about the SB1000. If you haven’t heard them kill everything else, find me or my buddy Big Al at the place next to the BBQ joint and we’ll show you how the adults use them. 
I don’t know what gigs you are going to, but in The Bigs, horn loaded subs are the defacto standard. Keep blogging Josh, it’s a fun read.
April 27th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Glad to hear your opinion of the SB-1000s at a time when I’m fending off bullshit from too close to home about KF-900s, BH-760s, some other trick offerings that seem to be about more black magic and even “you should build a bunch of LAB subs”. Yeah, like anyone around here has time to become cabinet makers. I love the SBs, we have 8, we’re renting 8 more for next weekend, and I hope to fend off this horsehit from outside sources and get 12 more.
Did I miss something or did we get the “rest of the story” about the big Russian gig? Apparently, no one died, right?
Geri O
April 28th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
The SB-1000’s are awesome subs, but not in every situation. Outdoors, or in a large room, when you have at least 4 per side they’re great. Inside a small room (the size of a school gym) with only one per side there are a bunch of subs I’d rather have, starting with the SB-850. The shop I work at has around 100 of the SB-1000’s so they tend to end up on a bunch of gigs when the 850’s or other suitable subs are gone.
Geri, the last Russian gig blog I read had our hero, Dave, flying home. Unless he was followed by the cover band and cornered in an alley I would imagine the story is over … for now
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Rob
May 9th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Hey dude,
Thanks for the kind words.. I wrote some stuff last night its up on my blog. Sorry it sucks ill try move it to blogger.com. Weres ur rss feed at?
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/josh_evans/
“whats the difference between a monitor engineer and a toilet?”
May 9th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Hey,
My stupid mouth has got me in trouble again.
I need a job.
Karen Shugrue
Providence