Indian Show

Well today was kind of a rest day, the Indian Show was last night it went really well considering how many people there were on stage on any given time and how many mics were in use... We had all 16 Channels of Wireless in use along with 4 drum mics for the large Indian Drums.

Today the stage crew has been hard at work preparing the stage for the Theme Show tomorrow night, I am mixing FOH for it so its my big show. The first rehearsal is tonight at 7pm. I just hope its finished in time for the HoDag and the Arrowcorps5 reunion party.

Now, finally, here are some pictures :)

This is what it looked like after the first day of hanging truss and lighting


Opening Show!!!
Mic World and Stage Right Amps
Me taking a break while hanging the arrays

Array going up....
I guess we are qualified persons now!! :)
Christian was very excited to see the Vertec Arrays Arrive

This is about an 1/8 of the road cases we have. haha

Race your WheelChairs this way to the Show :)

Recognition Show

Well today is a very busy day becasue we had to strike the set from the opening show this morning and get ready for the National Recognition Show this evening. It was a little crazy but we got it done. The stage edges changed from Blue to Red and we helped the lighting guys install giant LED lit Cubes.

Now we are just running through tech rehersal. Just got back from church, met up with Daddy and Christopher there. The pyro guys are still having issue... its not pretty.

All is going well even though we are running on like 6 hours of sleep. We got out of here at 11:30pm last night and we were drilling holes in the stage for podium mics at L30am after breakfast.

Cheers,

Patrick.

P.S. Pictures Tonight!!! I promise!!

Wow, long day!! Opening show went great. Pyro was a little much; and there were several misfires, but all and all nothing blew up that wasn't supposed to... Goodnight. Regognition show tomarow. Ill keep you updated...



Cheers,

Patrick

Saturday - Arrival and Opening Show

Ok, well today has been very interesting yet not as busy as the past few days... It also helps that I have the first show off, we have 5 people and 4 positions so everyone gets a day off... I still help out a lot but I don't have a specific place to be or a special thing to do... I am doing wireless management for the next show, then pre-show music and then finally I'm mixing the final theme show on Wednesday night. :)

So Im just helping out where need be I finished running the 500 foot communication lines up to the follow spots on the roof this morning and now I'm just helping with tech rehearsal,and analyzing the rf frequency available for use in the area. Then we have a dress rehearsal after lunch.

We've just had a few minor issues here and there. MSI forgot a couple power cables so we had to make do with what we have, we also had a whole amp rack have an issue but we worked around it. Rob left at 10 today so that was sad... He was a really cool guy.

But anyway, all is good here, looking forward to seeing Daddy and Christopher this afternoon and finally being able to post some pictures for everyone to see. ITS AWESOME!!!

Well the RF analiysis is done, so I have to close the blog and program the wireless units. Love the battery life in this laptop but iyts having serious issues... haha.

ttyl,
Patrick

Busy Busy!!!

Wow, thats all I can say. The last two days have been a blur. I'll start with yesterday and try to get through as much of today as I can. I also activated mobile blogging so I should be able to post from my phone by texting a certain secret number... So ill have to give that a try. Maybe I can post some pictures through that too.

Well yesterday we started work around 8 and worked until 10pm or so... We started by pinning all the vertecs together, and then the riggers lowered the chain hoists down and we attached the arrays and hoisted them up. They are amazing!! we also have JBL VRX 932 as front and side fills both flying and ground stacked. and Apogee AE-5's hanging as foldbacks/monitors. Then came the amp racks with all of there soco cables and NL-4 and NL-8 breakouts for the vertec arrays. We are running the main arrays with Crown Macrotechs and we are running the fills with Crown Xti's

Rob is our buddy from MSI (the company we rented the equipment from ($27,900 worth in case you were wondering)) He is AWESOME!!!! I mean we walked in after he had been tuning the system during lunch and it sounded like a Meyer sound mica array. It was amazing. So after we had blasted some DMB just to check the system out I went back to do some work on the amp rack and thought I was in a dream because I was holding the NL-4 cables for the subs in my hand yet it already sounded amazing... So it goes without saying that after we hooked the subs up it sound really really good.

In other news we have 16 channels of Shure UHF Wireless with Beta 87A capsules. Yamaha M7CL Board and 4 Christie Projectors Projecting on a 87 x 150 foot screen... In HD of course :)

So just to clarify, We have the same board that Dave Matthews Band is on tour with...

The same Speakers Bruce Springsteen is on Tour with...

The same Mics Coldplay is on tour with.

I wont even get into lights tonight....... :)

ttyl,

Patrick

P.S. Im off to the Staff Show tonight. Then rehersals for Opening Show and then finally sleep :)

Afternoon Activities

Well after heading over to Assembly Hall to work on whatever had to be done we were assigned an ultra special secret mission that cannot be revealed at the current time. After working on that for 2 hours or so, we are now exhausted from a fun filled and strenuous day of travel. Now we are just laying in the dorm room with the A/C cranked way up. Dinner is in our building so that is a nice feature. We are headed there soon and then its off to bed. We were tracking the truck online and it is like 5 hours behind schedule, so load in will start at 8am.

I'll update you on the food in the morning.

Cheers,

Patrick