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Gear Notes: Baku, Azerbijian and Wroclaw, Poland

I’ve had a couple of requests for basic gear lists on the one off dates, so I’m going to try this for a while. It will at least give some insight to those that aren’t familiar with the variables in one off fly dates.

Gear Notes Baku

Baku, Azerbijian

Venue: 2000 seat theater. Built in the 60s during the Soviet occupation. The Soviets occupied the country from about 1920 until 1991.

FOH
console: Midas Legend (small frame, reduced input show)
speakers: Meyer M2D 2x subs and 5 x tops hung per side with 2x CQs for fronts and Dynacord Cobra subs. Subs powered with EV P33000 amps using and XTA 226 controller as sub crossover and line driver/DA for the powered boxes.

MON
console: DM 2000 V2 (not properly configured for the gig)
wedges: EV crappy plastic 15″ x 2″ passive
sides: EV QRx 212/75
power: EV P1200/P2200 (mismatched)

Baku crew largely unprepared, weren’t use to doing gigs at this level but were nice and willing to learn. Time given I’ll post more details later. The entire stay was a cluster, though nice people that tried hard.

Gear Notes Wroclaw

Venue: Market Square, free show in the centrum across from the old church. Approx 10,000 capacity.

FOH
console: PM 4000
speakers: V-DOSC, 8 x tops hung per side, with six subs per side, Camco amps, XTA 226 controllers and Meyer UPA-1P front fills.
MON
console: Soundcraft SM20 w/ DN360 eq
wedges: Turbosound TFM 212 with Meyer CQ2 sides.
amps: Crest 7001

Aviom digital snaking system that was more of a pain in the ass than an asset for us. the tactical Cat 5 running to FOH was cool, but there are some implementation issues with regard to gain structure.

Good crew, world class as well as the promoter. The mon rig was a bit old and hammered but the foh rig was pretty tight. The crew could hold their own against most any crew in the world. Very quality work day.

In a few hours we’ll board a couple of turbo props for a flight to Bulgaria for a late load in and a throw and go. Hope they have what we need.

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2 Responses to “Gear Notes: Baku, Azerbijian and Wroclaw, Poland”

  1. Tom Young Says:
    June 26th, 2006 at 5:43 am

    Hey, Dave-

    I was also thinking that I would enjoy equipment details when I read your itinerary posts/blogs. Glad you posted some.

    So what do these varied crews/providers use for system optimization, both mons and FOH ?

    Thanks for keeping this site up and stay safe-

    ty

  2. North Pole Says:
    June 26th, 2006 at 9:13 am

    Hi Dave!

    Thanks for the good blog, been lurking here for a while.

    I’m a very experienced mon engineer and have been working as the house mon guy with quite a few international touring bands with good success. But as I’m living in an area where I really can’t get any reference points to how a world class crew should work, it would be nice to have at least one opinion about it.

    We try prepare in advance as well as possible and we do whatever it takes to keep the visiting crew happy. But there are probably quite a few things we haven’t thought about as we haven’t toured the world ourselves or seen what is considered “standard practice” at your level in the US.

    Could you post an entry that would describe your dream local crew/mon eng/sys tech/whatever? How they should be prepared? What do you expect from them?

    Have fun touring this side of the pond,

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