A Barking Dog

Freiburg, DE

Venue: Zelt Music Festival, big tent, not quite full.

FOH
conosle: Midas XL4
speakers: 14 x (7 per side) EAW KF 730 with EAW MX8750 controller and Lab Gruppen amps. Front fills JF260x and 16 x EAW SB1000 powered by QSC PL 6.0.

MON
console: Midas Heritage 3000 w/ BSS eq
wedges: Radian Microwedges (12″) powered by Lab Gruppen controlled by Lake Contour.

Montreux, CH

Venue: Montreux Casino Showroom, Montreux Jazz Festival. Oversold, with people standing anywhere they could. We used to do well in the big room but The Jazz singer happens to be pals with the promoter and a few years back told him that he’d like to do the small room for the intimate effect.

FOH
console: Digidesign Venue
speakers: 12 x Meyer Melodie with USW subs. Matrixed with a Meyer Galileo and networked with Meyer RMS.
measurement system: Meyer SIM 3

MON
console: Soundcraft SM20 w/ BSS eqs.
wedges: Meyer USM-1P, sides UPA-1P

A Venue of Venues

Originally uploaded by Dave Stevens.

Scovi and Briggs

Lyon, FR

Venue: Cite Congress Lyon, theater, brand new, capacity approx 3500. Sold out.

FOH

console: Yamaha PM3500
speakers: Combination of L’Acoustics ARCS, DV-DOSC and V-DOSC subs and the small L’ Acoustics front fill. XTA controller network into approx 10 zones, controlled from a Motion tablet. Powered by Lab Gruppen.
measurement system: Smaart Live w/ Edirol USB mic preamp and Earthworks mic.

MON

console: Midas Heritage 3000 w/KT DN360 equalizers
wedges: L’Acoustics MTD 115a w/ 115a controllers two way active powered by Lab Gruppen. Sidefills Meyer MSL4.

Verona, IT

Venue: Teatro Romano. The site on the remains of a BC era Roman ampitheater. Open air (that means outside, seppos…) Capacity 1500, sold out. Rain delayed load in until 14:30 that day.

FOH

console: Midas Heritage 3000
speakers: 4 arrays of 4 d&b Q7 each, two arrays per side with Q1 vertical and Max front fills, powered by d&b D12 amps. The one bummer was that there was only a master L&R eq and the zone eq had to be done at the amp/dsp. Normally there is a control network at this venue but for this show it wasn’t in use.

MON

console: Midas XL250 w/ XTA eqs
wedges: d&b Max powered with QSC PL 1.8 passive, drum fill (this gig only, usually wedges) Max on top of a Q Sub, powered by d&b D12. The drummer and I would like to keep it, but FOH dude has other ideas. Sidefills d&b Q1 vertical powered by D12 amp/controller packages.

Blainville, FR

Venue: Tent at the site of an ancient castle. Capacity 1800, sold out.

FOH

console: Yamaha PM5D RH
speakers: A variety of d&b Q7, Q10, E3, B2 and C7 in about 14 zones. Controlled by a d&b Rope system. Powered by d&b D12 amp/controllers.
Measurement System: Smaart Live, firewire pre amp, Uli rip off mic with a cracked bootleg of Smaart.

MON

console: Midas XL250 w/ KT DN360 eqs.
wedges: d&b Max with principal mix two way powered by d&b D12, other mixes passive powered with d&b P1200A. Sidefills d&b C7 top only (we don’t need no subs on the fills) powered with D12s.
Measurement System: Smaart Live 6, Mac beta version. M Audio Duo USB preamp with Uli rip off mic.

Border? I Hardly Know Her…

Originally uploaded by Dave Stevens.

Swiss/German border, just after midnight

Smaart Ass

Originally uploaded by Dave Stevens.

Mac beta version, M Audio Duo and Uli rip off mic.