Gig Report / House Concert Fundraiser: Difference between revisions

* This was a House Concert – capacity about 150 people not including sound via wireless to a large room in another part of the house.

* Backed into a Corner

:When I arrived earlier this week to check things out, the stage was set up in the corner and the room was arranged around that. We have done this in other years, but that was for a single performer (Voice and Guitar). I really wanted to get out of that pocket but there was no dissuading the owner. I also had a little of that “Classic” thinking going on and I was imagining trying to get to the back of the L1™ Power Stands to make connections and change Presets. That's tough enough on straight wall, but near impossible in a corner.

* Small stage

:The stage was 4 x 8 feet, hollow and raised about a foot. There as a thick carpet on top of it. This straddled the corner facing the room diagonally. I managed to pull it out about two feet and put three L1™s behind it. There was a Model II in the middle and a Classic on either side. I was running T1™s on all three. More on this a little later in “[[{{PAGENAME}}#The Headliner Arrived Early|The Headliner Arrived Early]].”

* The Line Up

:We had one headliner and four warm-up acts. We were expecting five, but we lost one in the snow. Throughout the evening we flipped the stage six or seven times. No Drums (sorry), this was a Folk, Light Jazz, Acoustic Blues kind of night. Easy changes. The location is a fair hike off the beaten track so there were no on-site rehearsals or sound checks in advance.

:The longest turnovers were on either side of a duo where one Guitarist brought his own amp and insisted on using it instead of the “house” system. They arrived late and there was no way to set them up in advance. Besides it was a small stage and I didn't want any back line amps cluttering up the view.

* T1™ Scenes

:The T1™ Scenes made it easy to switch between settings for the different acts.

:The headliner had arrived early, found the T1™, figured it out, and tweaked all the settings before I got there. All I did was suggest some different Presets to try for the microphone on his acoustic Guitar. Then I got as far as telling him about the Scenes, and he created one on his own. More on this a little later in “[[{{PAGENAME}}#The Headliner Arrived Early|The Headliner Arrived Early]].”

* T1™s on stage for the first time

:This was the first show for me where I had T1™s on the stage for other performers to use. Although it would have been easy to run the T1™s from offstage, I really wanted to see how the performers would fare with it. It all went very well.

:When I went down to do the initial set-up, I asked if we could do without the stage altogether. Because it was so small (4 x 8'), low (only 12”) and hollow, I didn't think that it was going to do any more than create an artificial constraint on our working space. The owner was insistent because although the headliner puts on an extremely energetic show waltzing with his Guitar all night, some of the other acts were more sedately seated. He wanted the stage so that the quieter, seated acts would be more visible.

:I wasn't particularly happy that the L1™s were a foot lower and behind the stage, so the owner offered to build a platform behind the stage to elevate them. At the time, I declined the offer and set up all the gear. After sleeping on it I called back and asked him to make the platform. He agreed. He was to make the platform and I would get there early on Saturday to tear down and set things up again.

=== The Headliner Arrived Early ===