Equipment
Over the last 10 years, I have used a huge variety of different sound reinforcement systems and equipment.
As a front of house engineer, I have set up, configured and operated reinforcement systems ranging from small vocal PAs to large festival systems (point source and line array) with an independant monitor mixer, monitors from FOH, FOH from the side of stage and everything in between. I am confident and experienced working with most analogue and digital consoles from an 8-channel Mackie to a 44+4 Midas Heritage 3000 or a DiGiCo D5 and have experience (and an opinion) on most 'industry standard' processors, multi-FX units and equalisers.
As a monitor engineer, I am at home mixing wedges, side-fills, drum-fills, in-ear monitors or any combination thereof.
I have experience working outdoors in a fast-turnover festival environment, touring with or without production or one-offs with no time for setup.
I have intimate experience using the following professional sound reinforcement equipment. This list is by no means comprehensive:
- Avid Venue, Yamaha PM1D / PM5D / M7CL / LS9, DiGiCo D1 / D5 digital consoles.
- Large format analogue consoles such as Midas XL4 / H3000, Yamaha PM5000 / PM4000, Soundcraft Series 5.
- Line array and point source loudspeaker systems by Martin, Meyer, EAW, Funktion-One.
- EAW Smaart dual-FFT audio analysis software.
- XTA, BSS, Shure and dbx DSP system controllers.
- UHF microphone and IEM systems by Sennheiser and Shure.
I also have considerable experience using complex recording equipment including large frame in-line analogue consoles, Sony OXF-R3 and DMX-R100 digital consoles, Avid Pro Tools HD and LE systems as well as 1/4" - 2" multi-track tape machines such as the Studer A80 or digital recorder formats including DTRS and DAT.
Personal Equipment
Depending what's required for a particular project, I carry the following equipment as part of my standard rate:
- Apple MacBook and Digidesign MBox 2 Pro audio interface with a selection of analogue/digital/data cabling and wireless networking.
- Windows XP loaded with audio device control and system design / prediction software.
- Smaart v7 dual-channel analysis software with Audix TR40A measurement microphone.
- Digidesign ProTools LE v7.4 recording software.
- Briefcase containing headphones, in-ear monitors, iPod, cable tester, SPL meter, spare mic/DI and various cabling.
- Full wireman's toolkit.