The Push Stars hit the road again and I will be Tour Managing and Mixing Front of House (and Monitors for that matter in many of the clubs they play). Tour will run April 16 through May 20th or so.
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Some good shows this weekend. The Michael Hampton show at the Justice League went well, was good to see a friend and fellow sound engineer I hadn’t seen in awhile. Only problem is the Justice League sound system is plagued by buzzes, most likely due to no ground, but they are working on it. Third Ear out of Richmond, CA supplies us with a good monitor rig with a Mackie SR-40 and a slew of PAS wedges and KT EQ’s.
Sunday at the Bottom of the Hill was even better, for $7 you got all you can eat BBQ, potato salad, pasta salad, hot dogs, veggie burgers, and three bands. A great show by all, and was cool to see Chip playing with the Mother Truckers. It has been awhile seen I have seen him after mixing monitors numerous times for Zero at the Maritime Hall.
Working a show or two at the Justice League here in San Francisco. Seems I’ll meet up with a friend a haven’t seen since the Maritime Hall days at Fridays show. He got convinced into working with P-Funk. He will have many good road stories to tell I’m sure. Otherwise work continues on the Itinerary Database. Someday it will be finished…. someday.
Good show last night at the Bottom of the Hill, here in San Francisco. Loud, very loud. Sound-check sounded lame, but the bands seemed happy with the stage sound. Not a great room to sound-check empty with its tile floor, but once the place filled up things were much more tolerable. The new EAW rig that replaced the Community rig is definitely an improvement. Though it’s one of those rooms with tons of low end at the FOH position in the rear of the room, and nothing on the floor. The Alien and Heath console there is also starting to show it’s age, and the faders for 2K through 8K on the house left EQ are mysteriously missing. But Kirk, the house engineer was a great help and good luck to him as he leaves for a tour. The Get-Go opened up with a short but sweet set, Trainwreck followed, and last but not least eX-Girl hit the stage and put on a tight exciting show. It was interesting mixing a band that didn’t have a kick drum. The kit consisted of a snare, a floor tom, a high hat, and three cymbals. Fuzuki the drummer uses the floor as a “kick”. Kirk put an Audix D-4 on the top head of the tom, and a Beta 52 on the bottom head through a gate. Worked out fairly well. I recorded the Get-Go’s set on to my Powerbook with Coaster, records aiff files at various bit and sample rates, very simple interface, and phase reverse on left or right. I like its simplicity while it still has all the essential features you need to record, and being the freeware that it is, well, right on.
Good luck to eX-Girl as they travel on to the Troubadour in LA, and then to Texas for a show at Club Clearview, and finally onto Austin for SxSW.
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