A “new” club in town called the Independent (was the Kennel Club back in the day, and right before becoming the Independent it was the Justice League. My friend John Karr taking on the job of Systems House Engineer. I helped out by finishing up the install, putting the patch-bay in and getting FOH and MON all wired up.

Front of House – a Midas Legend 3000 : 48x8x3, 12 Aux sends, 10 VCA’s, 10 Mute Groups, 11×6 Matrix, and 4 line level stereo returns. With XL-4 mic pre’s and XL-3 EQ’s its arguably the best installed desk in town, especially for a club with a capacity under 500.

FOH Rack (top to bottom)
FX
TC D-2
TC M-1
Lexicon PCM-80
Yamaha SPX-990

INSERTS
BSS DPR 502
ART 2Chn Valve Comp
(2) KT Quad Comp
(2) KT Quad Gates

Clear-Com – 2Chn
Patch-bays

DRIVE RACK
KT DN 360 EQ
KT DN-500 Comp/Limiter
KT Helix EQ

CD Player
Console Power Supply

The rear of the Midas desk…

With the patch bay installed there won’t be much need to get back here unless a guest engineer brings in their own gear. I plugged everything together, and modified, labeled and installed the patch bay.

The house amp rack, all EV amps, one amp channel per driver, with DSP for X-Over and EQ controlled from EV’s Iris software from a PC at FOH.

The amps power an EV X-Array speaker system with 3 Xi 1183/64 flown per side and 2 X dn subs on the floor per side (which are fed from an aux send or off L/R, whatever you like).

Well, guess they ran outa $ when it came to a monitor desk. The once great, and now old, dirty, worn out Soundcraft 500M.

In the good news department, a patch bay to patch any mix out to processor in, the KT DN9848 processors, and EV amps with Neutric patch bay to stage snakes with bi-amped (8) EV xw15 wedges, and Community Sidefills with JBL 2×18 subs.

For monitor EQ you have 10 Channels of KT DN-360 along with a quad behringer gate, (2) dbx 266, and a Ashley 31 band eq insertable on any channel.

The bottom of the rack has a clear-com station, an Ashely x-over for the sidefills, some QSC amps for the sidefills, a spare EV amp, and the power supply for the Soundcraft.

Well, with all the good gear at FOH there is one sort of big downside, your in the balcony, and the boxes are angled at the floor, which they cover really well, we hope to get some fills on top of the pa someday to cover the balcony mix position, just some horns would do the trick, we could angle the boxes up, but then we would need down fill and the majority of the pa would be aimed at the back wall.

You did get a clear view of the stage……

Overall, for the size of the club (500 or so packed) they are doing really good. The lighting package is also pretty good with morpheus intelligent lighting, par cans with color scrollers, and an Echelon desk that they tell me is just like the Hog II. Dressing rooms are nice, their is a private toilet backstage, lots of good places to eat near by and a great staff. Enjoy!