Equipment

I have used a wide variety of sound reinforcement systems and different equipment, and would like to demonstrate the range of systems and equipment that I'm comfortable working with.

As front of house engineer, I have set up, configured and operated reinforcement systems ranging from small vocal PAs to 3/4-way festival systems (point source and line array) with an independant monitor mixer, monitors from FOH or 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 Behringer to a 44+4 Midas Heritage 3000 and have experience with most 'industry standard' processors, multi-FX units and equalisers.

As a monitor engineer, I have experience mixing up to 12 discrete mixes using traditional wedges and side/drum fill loudspeakers, in-ear monitors or a combination of both, again using most common consoles, EQs and processors.

I have experience working outdoors in a fast-turnover festival environment, touring with and without production or one-offs in a venue with little time for setup as well as in a venue with a single band and the luxury of a longer soundcheck. I have also used most of the systems mentioned above with DJ-only club nights as well as full bands.

I am comfortable working with carried production or mixing one-offs with unfamiliar equipment and venues.

I have intimate experience using the following professional sound reinforcement equipment, and fleeting experience with much more. This list is by no means comprehensive:

• Large format analogue consoles including Midas XL3/XL200/H3000, Yamaha PM3500, Soundcraft MH4/MH3, Allen & Heath ML4000 as well as smaller desks by Soundcraft, Midas, Yamaha, Allen & Heath and DDA
• Yamaha M7CL and LS9 digital consoles
• Line array and point source loudspeaker systems by Martin, EAW, Funktion One and Renkus-Heinz
• EAW Smaart audio analysis software
• Martin and JBL monitor wedges
• IEM systems by Sennheiser and Shure (wired and UHF)
• Wired, UHF/VHF handheld and miniature radio microphones by Shure, AKG, Neumann, DPA, Sennheiser etc.
• XTA, BSS, Shure and dbx system controllers
• Lexicon 480L reverberation processor
• Most 'industry standard' processors, effects and amplifiers including Klark-Teknik, XTA, BSS, Drawmer, dbx, Lexicon, TC Electronic, Yamaha, Lab Gruppen, MC², Crown etc.

I also have experience using complex recording equipment, such as the Neve V series and Sony OXF-R3 and DMX-R100 digital consoles, Digidesign Pro Tools HD and LE systems, Logic Audio (in addition to other computer based sequencers) as well as 1/4" to 2" multi-track tape machines such as the Studer A80 or digital recorder formats including DTRS and DAT.