A Barking Dog

We made it back over the weekend, still jet lagged as all hell four days later. About 12 hours after I landed I showed up at the swanky place on the Strip for my orientation and first day of work. Fortunately we have been dark for the last two days so I can catch up on sleep. The last week of the tour really kicked the shit out of us. We’re old farts, we can’t function on only a few hours sleep a night. The last 5 days of the run I had about 14 hours of sleep.

I’m going to continue Mobloging the remainer of the tour with jazz singer and guitar player that sits. I can’t Moblog from the swanky place as that’s against policy.

As we start to prep the next leg, I’ll have 10 shows training at the pool before heading to Philly for an early load in for the first show as there are no production rehearsal dates. That day will be grim. I’m getting the patch together and programming the D5 for FOH and the D1 I’ll be using. My final gear list from the provider isn’t in yet but here’s a basic list of our requirements, not counting what guitar player that sits needs. It from a major vendor that I’ve worked with before, the other guy on stage is guitar player that sits guy who happens to work for the vendor. Isn’t that a coincidence.

Here’s the general list of what we spec…

FOH
consoles: Digidesign Venue, Digico D5 or D1, Midas XL4 or Heritage 3000 or 2000, Yamaha PM5D.
processing: If not a surface, 4 multi effects/verbs; Harmonizer and DDL. 8 gates and 12 comps with 1/3 oct eq for every zone. Subs on aux when possible.
stacks: Powered Meyer, d&b, V-DOSC, Nexo.

MON
consoles: Digico D1/D5, Yamaha PM5D-RH or PM-1D, Midas XL4 or Heritage 3000/4000 or XL250.
processing: If no surface, 10 ch 1/3 octave eq, tc EQ Station, KT, BSS, XTA. 8 ch comps, 2 multi effects
wedges: Meyer UW-1P, d&b Max or M2, Clair 12AM, Radian Microwedges, Nexo PS15. Fills Meyer CQ or MSL4.

Input devices
We bring all the vocal mics, Beta 58 for the BGV with UHF-R with KSM-9 and SM58 heads. Sax on Beta 98 on a Shure ULX pack. We provide the KSM 27s for guitar and the Beta 91 and 98s for the drums. And a Demeter DI for the bass. We also have enough 57s and 81 to finish off the gig if need be but we don’t usually break them out.

In about a week it’s the first show. Don’t have much info except it’s mainly jr sized sheds (can you really call that a shed?) a couple of theaters and a few casinos.

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