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  1. Age: 25 Day Gig: Consultant for Big Blue Fun Gig: Cobra Sound - A/V Systems Contractor and SR Provider Disclaimer: We are dealers as well as end users for most of the items in our inventory. Like Audiopile, we don't sell or recommend anything that we wouldn't use ourselves. On the live events side, we do mostly acoustic music festivals and civic events (aka street fairs). Most applications are large coverage area but lower SPL. However, we also handle some DJing and club work. Mains: Yorkville EF500PB's (up to 3 per side). We now have 8 of these available so we may try 2 over 2 for a large event. Speakers are usually stacked on scaffolding or speaker poles on the subs. The EF500PB's pack incredible bang for the buck, excellent throw from the HF horn, good output, nice looks, reliability/durability, etc. For their size and price it's hard to beat. If we make a move from these, it will probably be to something of the Tom Danley SH-50/EAW KF-650z/QSC Wideline Caliber. Crowd size is anything from 100-2000 people mostly outdoors. Yorkville LS800PB subs (up to 2 per side). Great subwoofers for the money. Ditto on everything said about the EF500PB's. Again any changes would probably be to upgrade to Danley's/BassMaxx/LAB Sub/etc. Smaller events make use of FBT Maxx4A cabinets for mains/monitors. We recently added the FBT line and picked up some of these cabinets after reading glowing reviews for so long. These are the best plastic 12" cabinets that we have heard yet. 'nuff said. Monitor duty is tackled by another FBT Product, the PSR212MA. I think anyone looking at Microwedges (especially those on a budget) should check these out. We just used them on their first bluegrass festival over the weekend and EVERY band that took stage commented on the excellent stage sound. These are a BIG step up from the Mackie SRM-450's that were on monitor duty. GBF and clarity is excellent. Consoles: Mackie TT24 for larger events. We love the mic pre-amps and EQ. The Effects are OK and useable. I love the layout and I/O. However I wish it had a few of the features from the 01V that we moved up from. Definitely a very capable console and NO outboard processing racks needed (at least for our events)! Allen & Heath MixWizard for smaller events. Great sound,good layout, reliable. Considering moving to a 01V96 for it's greater processing capabilities. System Processing: Our DriveRack 260 has been replaced by a Sabine Navigator 3600 3*6 DSP. We run L/R stereo and aux fed subs. They sound great and are fairly easy to use with the software. Operating the unit without computer assistance is a little cumbersome but doable. We use a second Sabine NAV-3600 for the monitor mixes feeding the FBT PSR212MA's. The DriveRack has more flashing lights and minor features but the sabine sounds great and gets the job done without fuss. Bonus points for Ethernet control too. Amps and Racks: There aren't ANY! Everything is self-powered! The Sabines and some FOH storage drawers are in an EWI rack from Audiopile. Very nice case for the money. Mics: Vocals - Beta58A's or Audix OM6's Instruments (acoustic/electric/overheads I haven't had them sound bad on anything yet) - Audix Micros 1290 and CX-112 Drums - Audix D Series (Micro-D's on Toms, D4 on Floor Tom, D6 on Kick) DI's - BSS AR133's and Whirlwind Directors Snake - Whirlwind Medusas Cables - Homegrown Neutrik/Canare or Whirlwind MKQ Quad Power Distro: 1 - Motion Labs RacPac w/50 Amp 240 volt Twists 1 - 10 ft tie-in Tail 1 - 25 ft 6/4 SOOW extension 1 - 60 ft 6/4 SOOW extension Tons of 10-3 and 12-3 SOOW extensions and quad boxes. Computers: 1 - ThinkPad T30 running SMAART with a Sound Devices USBPre 1 - ThinkPad T40 running Sabine Navigator and Mackie TT24 control software 1 - PC running Adobe Audition for multi-track recording straight off the TT24 ADAT Outputs through and RME Audio HammerFall soundcard Lights: 8 - ETC Source Four PARS 1 - NSI MC7300? Console 1 - Innovate Show Controls PC based DMX controller It's taken me years to assemble this system and we have progressed through several different FOH mains configurations. We're pretty happy with how things are at this point now though. It's scalable from SOS gigs to festivals and sounds great. The next step up from this would be a large one (note Danley/EAW lines above) so we'll probably have to be comfortable here for a while until we break into a large market.
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