Hardcore Speaker Porn
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
1 - top box is pointing at the ceiling, so is pointless at best, making things sound awful at worst
2 - it will sound awful
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Kinda reminds me of the first student house party I put on.
We "borrowed" the stage monitor system from the SU venue and used it at the house to do a multi room speaker set up.
Channel One sound system turned up after their regular Friday night we had there and Mikey Dread proceeded to drop sounds using the only record player we had available.
Would have been something like this.
Playing through old versions of these.
Sounds unbelievable now I read it back but that's what happened.
We "borrowed" the stage monitor system from the SU venue and used it at the house to do a multi room speaker set up.
Channel One sound system turned up after their regular Friday night we had there and Mikey Dread proceeded to drop sounds using the only record player we had available.
Would have been something like this.
Playing through old versions of these.
Sounds unbelievable now I read it back but that's what happened.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Yeah. I think there’s 2 Mikey Dreads though. One from Peckham and one from Ja.
It was the Peckham one. Lovely bloke, him and Trevor both.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
New system being installed in my concert hall today…
18 boxes of D&B T-Series, with a further 16 D&B 5s for under balcony fills, and 8 E6’s for front fill.
Also some 21” subs
All driven by 32 amp channels, fed via Dante from a new Yamaha DM7-EX console.
I fucking love my job.
18 boxes of D&B T-Series, with a further 16 D&B 5s for under balcony fills, and 8 E6’s for front fill.
Also some 21” subs
All driven by 32 amp channels, fed via Dante from a new Yamaha DM7-EX console.
I fucking love my job.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
In case anyone is interested…
First amp rack going in this morning. This is one of three racks, and is the largest. It does everything that’s in the air.
First amp rack going in this morning. This is one of three racks, and is the largest. It does everything that’s in the air.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
The level 1 & 2 course is well worth doing, and as long as you have a basic working knowledge of both audio and networking not too difficult to get your head around. Level 3 is where it gets complicated, but unless you’re designing huge venue scale systems probably isn’t worth worrying about.
Another rack going in:
This one has a few more amp channels for the front fills, Dante switch, Q-Sys control switch, radio mic receivers/chargers, stage left input box, and house announcement media player.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Amp config is done with the D&B R1 software. Q-Sys is going in to give touch panel control of things like audio system power up, as well as house light control and various presets for the LX rig that’s also being installed as I type (everything upgrading from incandescent to LED). It will eventually also control projectors, screens, info displays and so on, but that’s all for phase 2, likely in the summer.I was going to ask if D&B had it's own control system or if you used Q Sys. Just finished my Q Sys introduction. Now I need to do the test.
ska invita
back on the other side
the future....
plurker
tú no tienes la culpa mi amor que el mundo sea feo
I wish I knew more about this stuff!
Been working in and around sounds and venues since mid-90s, and in our venue am very jealous of tech team that know their way round the d&b Soundscape Enscene system and the SSL desk. I went into Marketing though, so just keep bugging them for "engaging content" - mainly pictures of the knobs
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Very nice. Can I ask what venue?
pesh
Well-Known Member
is that The KLF?
ska invita
back on the other side
ha no i think thats a couple of mobility scooter users in the US of A
plurker
tú no tienes la culpa mi amor que el mundo sea feo
I was going to ask you that tooVery nice. Can I ask what venue?
I work for a new London venue, World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens (snappy name!) in Vauxhall. We only opened in 2023, but already had some good names pass through the venue, and recording studio.
A place to hear good music - World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens
A multi-purpose arts hub - concert hall for classical recitals, gig venue for jazz & folk, a bustling cafe and bar, plus recording studios.
worldheartbeat.org
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That looks rather lovely.I was going to ask you that too
I work for a new London venue, World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens (snappy name!) in Vauxhall. We only opened in 2023, but already had some good names pass through the venue, and recording studio.
A place to hear good music - World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens
A multi-purpose arts hub - concert hall for classical recitals, gig venue for jazz & folk, a bustling cafe and bar, plus recording studios.
This is my place - The Bramall – University of Birmingham | Conferences & events
plurker
tú no tienes la culpa mi amor que el mundo sea feo
Beautiful! I never worked venue-side till now, always with Festival or touring promoters, so it's nice to have a 'home' to base myself in.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Lovely room, do you do all FOH from up in the control room or can you come down to earth as well?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
We can move, as per event requirements, there’s cat5 patching points for both Dante and DMX everywhere. Most of the balcony underfills are set as mono, apart from the pair directly in front of the ground floor mix position, so the engineer still gets a solid stereo reference.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Control room has two sets of monitors - D&B E8 for live, Genelec for recording.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It’s great, but the setup we have is… complicated. There’s over 30 things on the network, 3 subnets, with reserved addresses for nearly 20 more (visiting consoles, broadcast splits, press boxes etc)Dante is fucking magic.
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