Food. Hot Painted Bodies. Carribean Music. and the East Coast
Alright people. This is a long post. Well. it might be. We’ll see how it ends up. We (Myself. Dexter. and Josh). left Greenville. IL at 9:30 AM on Friday morning. We got to my house in NJ at 3:15 AM. which is awesome time since we stopped for a total of about two hours and we were held up in traffic for about an hour for no reason.
At 9 AM I got up and went to the mall to buy some black shoes for work. I showed up to work at 1:15 PM and got off at 2:45 AM. Now. about that…
The event was the The Grand Gala. There were two main parts to the gig. In The Grand Opera House. Smokey Robinson performed. If you don’t know who that is… well. go search Google. He’s a legend. At the Hotel du Pont. there was the After Party. which featured tons of food (amazing food) and The Christina River Steel Band. They were amazing. It was Carribean music. but done well. and with a little jazz influence. I was responsible for that system and engineering the show. Oh there was also body painting. Well. yeah… It wasn’t necessarily the little kid type of paint. but the kind that looked like it could be real tatoos or something… and yeah… they painted body parts that shouldn’t be showing. Oh and… everyone was dressed up… it was a pretty formal event.
The system sounded pretty good. My input list was:
01. Kick
02. Snare
03. OH
04. Bass Guitar
05. Keyboard
06. Sampler / Drum Machine
07. Steel Drum 1
08. Steel Drum 2
09. Vocal 1
10. Vocal 2
11. Vocal 3
12. Vocal 4
The beautiful thing about using the Yamaha O1V/96 is that I was able to put compression and a parametic EQ on each channel. I set up the subs by making an auxilary channel. and putting a low-pass filter on it. Then you can just send whatever you want to the sub. It’s GREAT for clearing up the mix. Reverb was another aux send. and then two monitor sends. I really need to read the manual on that board. If I could only figure out how to make the aux sends pre-EQ… I’d be so happy. Joe didn’t know how to do it. If he doesn’t. there’s a good chance you can’t do it.
Anyways. I know that’s a lot of boring detail. but most of that is for me. I’m going to eventually create another Blog as a technical journal of my work with BEL for my Practicum… I have a hard time remembering what I do all the time.
Anyways. it’s 3:49 AM and I can’t figure out why I haven’t passed out by now. I’m bored. Oh well. Night.