djiceman1575

Originally Posted by dcastar Not a bad rig in the slightest, for a 19 year old! You're likely making some of the other guys here jealous. How long have you been using the Seismic snake? I've heard horror stories.... Lol, thanks. It's been an effort, but it gets the job done. And as for the snake, been using it for a few months now, and it's really nice. The XLR connections aren't too fancy and they get the job done: not a single dead channel yet. The returns can be a bit finicky and I've had to rotate the plug occasionally, and I would hope to god it's not the board, lol. I did an outdoor festival a couple weekends ago with 14 bands in 14 hours on two stages (my stuff being the 2nd stage) and the only issue I had was a sub in the tiniest sliver of sunlight through the trees, directly on the amp panel...overheated for a minute, but it didn't take long to cool down once I covered it. I have two more gigs coming up, a single-band on a "party boat" type venue, and two bands at the local restaurant (which is becoming a nice small music venue) Few more pictures and videos of the setup at that gig. ^^ The headlights in that picture were the Mason Co. Sheriff, just checking up on things. lol. It was a free backwoods festival, just something to do in a little town in WV. I had a blast doing it, the only issues I really had were the snare (which I know why now...) and lots of cymbal bleed, which is why in the videos it may sound like they're awfully loud. Of course, the stage was a 14x12' stage with a 2' extension on front, and the small size of those 12's got the job done nicely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAGNt9zNGs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcsdK8OKv4c These next two are the host's band, great guy and a great group of people (mostly family) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z43CsvOXCC8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEyoCGpaaKU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pimahkpPGBk The PAR lights were borrowed from a friend, and the other guy that was helping me ran them. 8 cheap PAR56's and the guy who threw this shindig had a Chauvet 4Bar. It worked, that's all I care about, and it was all on a single 20A circuit. Next year, I'm hoping to have the QSC KW series for the main stage, and the EV's for the second stage. They had older CV stacks with Peavey 15's for wider coverage, Mackie floor monitors, and a Mixwiz 16, but not alot as far as compression, gating, etc. so there were alot of feedback problems. Can't hurt to dream though. Lol.

Who I Am I'm a 19 year old sound guy/DJ from the lowly state of KY. I first got into audio around 12-13 doing dances at my school with their setup (Peavey powered head & 2 SP2G's). Got my first set up the year after that (Yamaha speakers & a cheap amp), since then I've had a variety of speakers from Kustom, Peavey, Yamaha, my largest setup was 2 PV215's over 2 SP218's on 3 EP2500's, it was great but not portable at all. Board the whole time went from a Behringer 802 to a Mackie 1604 for most of it. What I Run Now - EV LiveX Speakers: 4x ELX112P's foldback, 2x ELX115P's tops, 2x ELX118P's subs Speaker Buys coming soon: 2x each speaker, total of 6 112P's 4 115P's & 4 118P's - Presonus Studiolive 24.4.2 Mixer & Seismic Audio 24x8 x 100ft snake - Shure/EV mics (5 Co7's, 2 SM58's, 3 SM57's (was 4...) + CAD Pro-7 mic kit, also have an older model SM58 wireless microphone Planned Mic buys: 2 e602's, 3 e835's, 2+ SM57's, e609's, couple decent overheads - 4 Chauvet Colorsplash Mini lightbars (got them in a DJ system package) Planned lighting buys: 8-16 of each, PAR64 & PAR38 RGB's, + PAR39 WW LED cans, LED moving heads/FX lights Why I Run It I've had an interest in audio engineering since I was asked to run sound for a couple bands at a pep rally at school. Since then I've slowly worked my way up to where I am right now, and don't plan on slowing down. I recently finished a course at a local recording school which gained me some more knowledge on audio in general. Shortly after I came back, I was asked to run sound for three bands at a local Relay For Life festival, and what I was running just wouldn't cut it that great, so I bit the bullet and bought the Studiolive and more mics. I still have a ways to go, but it's going good so far. What I Think Of It For the price, I have never heard of a better set of speakers. The LiveX blew my expectations away for a clean sounding loudspeaker system, and I've had nothing but compliments on it's quality, and found it was plently loud at half power for most stuff I will do for the time being. The Studiolive helps with everything, giving me an easy setup time. All I have to do is mic up, set gains, throw a few presets in, tweak them as I go, and the bands are playing in under 10 minutes from mic-up. Not only that, I don't have a rack full of gear anymore, it has all my light switch panels (that I will probably never use) as well as my wireless mic & my "hard" dual 31-band EQ for quick adjustments. That too will be replaced soon with a DBX processor. I plan on going bigger in a year or so, as I've been asked about larger shows. (The city hosts a festival/car show once a month on the first Friday of the month and one of the guys that plays there has asked me about some shows) so hopes are to go with a QRx rig soon, for larger stuff, although I'm pretty confident my ELX's can handle most smaller stuff. Excuse the pictures, they were taken with an iPhone, and there was no set stage for these events, so it was kind of a mess. The 15's had extensive chipping (one of my wonderful "friends" dropped the moving them around the bar I was working at) so I took some flat black spraypaint and touched them up, hence the slight discoloration on parts of the speakers.