I arrived at the venue (
Motocross/Mud Drag complex out in the desert) late Friday afternoon for an outside evening show. It took about 2 hours to set up the new stage along with the two 16' lighting towers/ branchless christmas trees trimmed up and ready to go.
I started setting up the gear. I stacked the two ATA118 subs on top of each other in the center of the stage. I stacked them vs. placing them side by side because I did not want people using them as stairs. Next, the two U103s went up on stands as high as I could get them. FOH was a A&H Mixwiz 16:3, a dbx 1231 and the Behringer DCX2496. For the first time I decided to run the subs-on-an-aux. I set the low & high pass filters @ 100Hz / 12db BW slope. Although the dbx Eq. was in line for the tops, it was flat.
Running some canned music through them, I was pleasantly surprised. I ran some rock (Aerosmith, Styx), country (Charlie Daniels, Garth Brooks), pop (Nelly Fertado, Black Eyed Peas) through the boxes. All of it was clean, clear and crisp (is that the name of a cereal? -
). Every thing was right there. Highs are not harsh at all with a smooth transition down to the mids. The subs were tight and actually kept up with the tops. I had some reservations because of being outside.
The Knights band arrived . They are a rock-a-billy group playing old Elvis, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison type music. So, we didn't have to be "full on" concert levels.
The monitors that were sent were the M1225s. They were very easy to throw up a mix in. Once again I did not touch the Eq that was inline (dbx 231). I actually ran them full range. I did not cut them off as I would have normally. I wanted to see if they would add to any stage rumble. They did not seem to. The musicians complained that they had nothing to complain about. The monitors were great. They could hear everything that I placed into the mix. The vocals were easy to get on top and stayed there.
I had nothing, I repeat... nothing but compliments on the sound. These speakers helped me sew up the contract for the remaining 2 possibly 3 shows for this year, with talk already about next year.
I am very impressed, Ales & Bennett. Thank you for allowing me to experience these little gems.
Sorry, no pics. Dumbutt me forgot the camera.
I am planning on using them on the August 5th show too and will have pics then, promise.
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