Photoblog: Weekend Audio

This is the first in what will hopefully become an ongoing installment of photo blogs.  I’m working on a quick & efficient way to implement video blogs but its not ready yet.  Hopefully soon!

Saturday, 9am.  Start of the day.  Time to wire the stage & prep for the band…  Tunes are rolling – today’s playlist is Peter Frampton I think.

Drum kit after its wired.  Rode NT4 for overheads, Shure Beta91 inside the kick (primary mic), Audix D6 on the short boom in the kick hole (some extra midrange & click for the kick), & Neumann TLM103 out in front of the kit for another artistic option for kick.  All of the cables for the kit are loomed and labeled so it is fast & clean to wire.  They terminate into a custom 16 channel fan snake that pulls to the drum deck for each service regardless of where it is located.  Channels 1-12 = audio, Channels 13-16 = PQ mixer, ears feed, & Dr Beat connect point.

Audio-Technica ATM-450 on snare top, Shure SM-57 on snare bottom (though hardly used), Neumann KM-184 on hat, Heil PR30s on rack & floor tom (auditioning them this weekend and quite impressed).  Although we have a house snare, most of our drummers bring their own.

Ready for the two electric guitar rigs.  Guitar 1 using a Shure SM57 and CAD E100, guitar 2 using a Sennheiser E609 and CAD E200.  Our electric amps are always faced directly upstage and this measure seems to be enough to provide reasonable control over stage volume.  I don’t anticipate us going the ISO cabinet route because our artistic folk like the “raw-ness” of amps on stage.

Ears & PQ mixer ready to go.  We provide Shure E3s or E5s to artists, although some are starting to bring their own.

12:30p.  Band rehearsal is underway.