Gig Log with a PC!

0:00 Public liability, snowing snowing, allowed film

Folks, another gig log. Slightly different today. I'm only doing the PA hire. It's in Shrewsbury. I'm not at liberty to say whereabouts, but I'm hoping that I can do some video footage, so I might as well start it off. But when I ask in the wherever, if they say no, sadly I can't. But we shall see. Anyway, I've got the big RCF speakers on one power amp. Base cabs on another power amp, couple of lasers, loads of lights and lots of interesting bits for them to fiddle about with. Anyway it's snowing, well it's not snowing now but it has been snowing so right I'll pause the camera. Right here we go, I'm at the venue now and they've requested that they see my public liability so there it is, that is my public liability insurance.

2:24 We've got this guy here, the Swing Flower from Cam

So basically my policy cover theft, damage and accidental loss. New for old, hire replacement equipment, personal accident and public liability. That's the important part. This is really the part that people want. Legal liability to a third party for damages and costs arising out of a claim for death or bodily injury or loss or damage to property caused by or through Here we go, I'm here. I am allowed to film but I'm not allowed to film any of Thanks for watching. And we've got that guy there from Cam, pretty funky. I'm going to have a go with that later on. There you go. This guy here, people are always asking me what lights I use, so that's the Laser 120. And then Quad Gem, Sunray, 3D, and then we've got those two, the barrel and the scan from Cam as well. Let's go over to the other side. OK, we've got this guy here, the Swing Flower from Cam.

And that's the Moonflower from Cam. Okay, a load of lighting. Those there are the RCF Event 6000s which got two 15s, an 8-inch midrange and a 1-inch. You can use those full range or you can do what's known as bi-amp them. In other words, you can attach two amplifiers to them so the one amp will do the bass and the other amp will do the mid and top. Got a couple of the Vortex 15s subs. Now notice I put those two together. A lot better bass if you put them together. I could have put one the other side, one over there, one over there but I prefer to put them together. One tiny point here that I will discuss in a future video or videos is something called time alignment. Now it probably means absolutely nothing to a lot of people but it does have one hell of a lot of logic. Right now again because it's sort of a PA hire type thing

If you can see there, just about, there's no cables at all going around there. That's where people will go in and out. I've got loads of cables there, but I'm going to keep those there so no one walks in that direction. In other words, all the cables go across there and then around the back. So all that area there is completely free. OK, I've got two amps. They're from Studiomaster. They're the AX3500s. Well that one at the top there is doing full range for the RCFs, that one down there is doing just the bass. So I'll pause the camera and we'll have a look around the back and I'll show you how I've linked them together. Right, I do apologise, it is a little bit dark but I've gone from the mixer into this top one. So I've gone in and then there's also an out on the top one so I've gone from mixer to in, from out of the top one into in on the bottom one.

5:22 Everything should have been ready by half five

And then I've got some speaker cables going from this one into the RCF, two left and right, and this one left and right into the bass cabs. Okay, we've got the Pioneer DJM700 and the CDJ-1000 Mark 3s. Now, it's now 25 to 7. I arrived here about half past three. Gave myself two hours to set up. So everything should have been ready by half five. The reason being is because they wanted me to be set up and ready by sort of half five-ish so they could have sort of two hours of practice, if not three hours. And it's now 25 to 7. No one's come along, nothing at all. So there you go. But you never know. You've just got to stick to what people say. Sometimes you need to use your initiative, but if you pay to do a job and they say you've got to be there at this time or that time, well, you've paid to do the thing, so... Oh well, never mind. This is the twiddling thumbs time, which is basically just playing with yourself. No, I don't recommend you play with yourself. Excuse me. OK, I do. That there is the colour bank.

Got that on the console. Looks pretty neat actually. Exciting evening. They had a PC, laptop with all of them. I've got to admit it sort of worked and it worked really well because it was lots of good tracks, well put together. Few people wanted some indie, you know, emo kind of stuff but the night was relatively good. They did get exceedingly drunk. Well, no, I shouldn't say that. No, they didn't get exceedingly drunk. I think they were just messing around really. But I put the two base cabs in front of the console. To begin with, I was thinking not a good idea because people kept on like banging into them. But after about 20 minutes, I thought it was a damn good idea because, you know, again, they were knocking into the console. So let me know, have you been in a situation like this where you've got a load of piss eggs in front of you and they just like fall all over everything?

Thank you for watching. See you next time. Thank you for watching.

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