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  1. Age 36: Occupation Tradesman. Hobby: You've heard of Soccor moms, I guess I'm a Rocker Dad. Played bars etc back in the 80's with a pretty decent sound/light rig. My two sons got bit by the music bug and ended up in bands. There was a pretty good local punk/rock scene in town for the past 12 years or so, with various bands providing the backline and putting on shows. Most of those bands were gone, and since my kids band was practicing at our place (he's the drummer) and singing through an old peavey amp of mine, my wife and I decided that maybe it was time for us to pick up the ball and continue the fine tradition of putting on local punk shows. Punk shows consist of 5 bands, 2 - 3 local with the other 2 - 3 being from out of town. Good for the kids as they get to see a lot of out of town bands they wouldn't normally get to see. Great for the local bands as it gets them out of the basements and garages and lets them play "real" shows in front of "real" crowds. 80 - 150 kids at the shows, so I know we needed some thump to make it all sound good. Had 16 lights and a controller left over from my gigging days. Our band fell apart when the drummer who owned the PA moved, along with the bass player. ANYWAY, the gear. FOH 2 - Yorkville Unity U15s 2 - Yorkville LS800P subs Monitors: borrow 4 monitors & an 800Watt power amp from a bud. Not sure what they are but they work well and will probably purchase from said friend in the future Board: Yorkville Powermax 16 2 - 800W built in amps for the mains 2 - 275W built in amps for the monitors Snake: 100' Yorkville snake with powered speaker returns Rack Gear: Drum setup: 6 - ddrum Pro Acoustic Triggers Alesis DM5 Drum module into an EWI 4 channel Direct box (which then run into the snake) 2 - PEAVEY PV Q431F EQ with Feedback locating system for FOH 1 - Peavey Q215FLS Dual band eq with Feedback locating system for monitors 1 Peavey Q215 that I use on inserts for the guitars if I need to tweak a bothersome frequency (this one guitar player has this one freq that just BOOMS when he plays clean. Has always done it so I know to drop that one freq and he's good for the show. 1 rocktron compressor 1 Alesis Quadraverb 1 DI for bass Mics 4 - SM58 3 - PVM 480 condensors for cymbals 2 - sm57's for guitars Boat Anchors: Behringer De-Noiser - lots of pretty lights, doesn't seem to do anything. BBE Aural Exciter - a few pretty lights, doesn't do enough to use. Both sit in the basement as paperweights. Sometimes u just don't know why you need something, or you don't know that you DON'T need something. Nice ballsy system. More than enough for what we do. I'd rather have the headroom and not need it then have everything clipping and still need more. Always get positive compliments from the out of town bands about the production and the sound quality. One said the setup was better than half the bars in the big city so that was cool. It's good and loud though we don't totally blow our brains out. Lots of thump which always brings a smile to my face. You probably won't get "screamo" but I don't think we're supposed to get it. My parent's didnt get Motley Crue and Iron Maiden, and their parents never got The Beatles or Elvis. But they were always there to support me so its nice to be in a position to support my kids. Also as we were growing up and in the young bands, there was always the old guard around, willing to help out if we needed a power amp or a monitor or two. Again, it's nice to become part of the old guard helping out the young whippersnappers. Here's the boys in action with my setup.... http://indyinghands.com/videos/m0405/m04twilight.wmv And them again playing in another city with a typical setup for the same type of show. Not as many people but they were playing rather late. I think there were like 10 bands which was way too many, lol the audience basically got burned out with all the moshing but it was cool that some people stayed behind. http://indyinghands.com/videos/sep1705/sep17perfect.wmv We looked at a few smaller systems, but from being in bands, I knew how loud it had to be for gigs. The other 3 systems wouldn't do it, and we thought if we bought a lesser system and it wasn't enough, we would probably get only half or less back from what we paid and would have to get a bigger setup anyway. So we bit the bullet and thought if we are going to do this, might as well do it right. Happy with the sound, the ease of setup, the quality of the gear, (really liked the 2 year "even if you break it" warrenty) And geez, I even ended up putting a bar band back together, so we'll use the setup for that as well. Oh yeah, and a Tascam Digital Portastudio 2488 to record the works.
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