Wedding Scene at Terrigal Jan 09
Just recently we did an outdoor wedding on the Central Coast. The wedding took place on a cliff top. The photos must look spectacular with the ocean backdrop! We used “Wedding Package 1″ on this occasion and set up on the left hand side of the cliff top on a 45 degree angle! Nevertheless we got everything “nearly” level and working. A simple but lovely ceremony.
We were asked to set up a powered pa system for a wedding at Bowral, but the sound equipment had to be unobtrusive. On this particular occasion we completely hid our speakers, CD deck, cabling and speakers from view behind azalea bushes! We needed a little higher treble settings than normal because of the muffling effect of the shrubbery, but we got a very good result with a little knob tweaking!
What am I bid…what am I bid….what am I bid? Here we are using a medium sized pa system (around 800 watts) for an auction of sports memorabilia. The auctioneer is wearing a SURE lapel microphone so he can operate hands free. We had a dual cart CD player to supply musical interludes, and we engineered for an entertainer. He was a sharp auctioneer too, didn’t miss a thing, the boss lifted his arm to check for BO, and nearly parted with $2000.
Morning Tea
A really nice job in the pleasant Hills District. We are using a MACKIE 808S with two C300 speakers and a SURE SLX 58A Beta wireless microphone to call the raffles, and the auctions, and the door prizes etc to 150 elegantly dressed ladies having a morning tea to raise a considerable sum for the Cancer Council. A very good cause, and a very nice morning tea! Thank you!
Early in may we had the opportunity to do an outdoor wedding in a beautiful forest in northern Sydney. Because of the topography we had to use two battery operated pa systems ganged together to get the sound to the assembled guests. We had a CD player patched in for ambience music and we also “milked” the celebrant who had her own pa with our lapel microphone. The system worked beautifully! Naturally we had the bride and groom wearing a DPA (Danish Professional Audio) lapel microphone so everything was heard loud and clear.
Down the south coast with one of the “big rigs” doing a live band mix. We had the EV SH1810’s and DH horns up front of house, driving off a speaker management system as an active speaker array. Pumping the speakers were three Mackie power amps. Signal processing was a master DBX limiter/gate/compressor, DBX stereo 31 band graphic. Monitoring was 4 x DAS PF-012 wedges. FB control on monitors was a DBX two channel 31 band graphic. Power to monitors was a Mackie M1400. EFX was PEAVEY Deltafex on main vocals and 2 x VIRTUALIZER PRO across the board. This was a full mic up and DI. Those EV’s were niiiice!
This is another example of how our battery powered equipment can be used in outdoor situations whith no mains power. Here we see a duo performing at a wedding ceremony using a variation on the No 2 wedding package. The motor cruiser is not mine unfortunately!
Here’s a Party Package 1 set up for a wedding reception. For the speeches the speakers are turned out to the guests. Later on swivel them around and rock away! In this case the music was supplied on an iPod. The iPod was simply “patched in” to the mixer/amplifier, adjusted, and away you go!
All set up for an end of term school disco. We have the big EVPX-215’s to pump out the bass, lights, bubble machine and as we found out, just barely enough power to cover the hall. Do you realise how much noise 300 primary and infants school kids can make!!! Never mind, they enjoyed themselves and so did we.
Well, the good life. Here is me (the boss, too repellent to actually be in the photo) behind the console of an Outdoor Wedding Pack 2 reclining in a chair on beautiful Clontarf beach, looking out across the spit and envying the photographer’s job and all the lovely boats I can’t afford. Actually it was a beautiful wedding too!
We were at the Macarthur District Aboriginal and Islander cultural festival supplying sound for the stage events which included vocal entertainers, dance troupes, bands and speakers. We had around 1500 people on the grounds. The gent in frame is standing beside a twin stack of ELECTROVOICE SH-ER-DH bins and horns. They were pumping sound out over 350 metres to the doughnut stalls at the time, he either has a hearing problem or is working on developing one. Actually this was a great test for these beautiful bins. We were covering four soccer fields plus rear areas of parkland with the power amp stack running on 60% sensitivity and booming!
Well… from the glitterato to the sweaterato! Here we are setting up a 100 Volt horn system for the 2007 Mt Annan Botanical Cardens Fun Challenge Walk. The boss is using the unfathomable depths of his audio engineering knowlege to daisy chain the horns. “The knee bone connecta to the thigh bone, the thigh bone connecta to the hip bone …. “
This was an interesting night. We did sound and lighting for a float at the Gay and Lesbian Madi-Gras. Tremendous fun was had by all. The only downside was that we had to walk the parade route twice, once to do reconiasance, and then agian during the parade. As well as keeping an eye on the systems the boss found himself handing out free condoms to the crowd. He didn’t get any himself, we don’t know what that means. We might add that the bare bottoms etc are not our crew, we only dress like that to go to the opera.