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FP1 – Small Outdoor Festival

• 4 x 600 Watt subwoofers and 2 x 600 Watt Tops
• Total system power: 3,600W RMS
• 3 x Stage Monitors
• Cable, mic and DI package
• LS9-16 Digital Mixing Console
• 2 crew members – one stage tech and one sound engineer

FP2 – Medium Festival

• D&B Line Array consisting of 6 Q1 and 6 QSub
• Total system  power: 4,800W RMS
• 4 D&B Max12 as stage monitors
• Cable, mic and DI package
• LS9-16 Digital Mixing Console
• 2 crew members – one stage tech and one sound engineer

FP3 – Larger Festival

• D&B Line Array consisting of 8 Q1 and 8 QSub
• Total system  power: 6,400W RMS
• 6 D&B Max12 as stage monitors
• Cable, mic and DI package
• DiGiCo SD9 Digital Mixing Console
• 2 crew members – one stage tech and one sound engineer

All Ireland Champions arrive!

The 2010 All Ireland Senior Ladies Champions returned to Na Fianna on Friday night to be greeted by over 1,000 people and a sound system supplied by AMP Sound Systems. An amazing evening was presented by Na Fianna GAA Club to welcome the girls home.

Dublin Team welcomed onto stage

The Dublin team arrived in an open top bus to an adoring crowd. Marty Morrisy of RTÉ then gave them a warm welcome to the stage before interviewing some of the key players who enabled Dublin to take home the Brendan Martin Cup

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Thousands cheer for the girls!

We were always aware that it was going to be challenging to cover the entire sports field so every word could be heard. But with clever speaker placement, every member of the audience heard the inspiring speeches from the team.

Congratulations to the girls, and thanks to Na Fianna for hosting such a well organised event.

Sunday the 12th of September meant an early start for the AMP Sound Systems crew! Just off from a late night at Darver Festival, we were in Phibsborough in Dublin for Phizzfest. AMP Sound Systems was subhired by The Sound & Music Co. to provide sound equipment and staff to the event.

The gig consisted of everything from rock to trad! The sun shone down all day – with the clouds only bursting as the case was put on the desk and the punters had gone home! It was a fabulous festival, and we hope to get the chance to work on it next year. Well done to all the organizers and thanks Vinny for putting the gig our way.

Now just for Vinny… The rig consisted of a centre-cluster of 4 x 600W DAP Subwoofers, 2 600W Mid-Highs and 3 EV sxA250′s for monitoring. FoH and wedges were mixed on a Yamaha LS9-16 by Eoin O’Grady.

Now the rest of ya’s can go enjoy some pictures:

Enjoy! And don’t forget to click the Share button below if you know others who underestimate the work involved!!

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On the 5th of May 2010, AMP Sound Systems was booked to provide the PA system and crew for a show by the Dublin Glee Choir in The Bank, Newry. I knew this would be a great gig, so decided to engineer it myself. My day went like this:

It all starts the night before at the warehouse...

...cases are picked and loaded...

...the D&B Max12's will be used as monitors...

17:22 – All the equipment is pushed into the venue

17:46 - Speakers are positioned

17:52 - The backbone of the wiring is installed

18:21 - A rough layout of the stage is created

18:21 - Mic stands placed on stage

18:22 - Stage coming together

18:28 - Mix position is set up

18:33 - Things start to get patched in

18:50 - Studio Manager is connected...

...and the show is loaded

20:15 - Wiring on the stage is complete

20:15 - Connected. Now to start tidying up.

21:20 - Leads tidied up and taped where required

21:20 - The band arrives...

21:25 - ...and sort out their positions

21:29 - Souncheck starts

21:41 - Rough levels are set and a song is run

21:56 - Final adjustments before the doors are opened

22:22 - Mix position tidied

22:23 - And show is saved as a backup

22:23 - Then lots of muted channels as we wait...

23:13 - Time to check out the controls of those rather cool screens!!!

23:13 - And say hello to the DJ who was playing music dangerously loud

00:23 - Quick check that I am receiving signal on all channels

00:25 - And the place starts filling up

01:05 - The choir arrives on stage

02:17 - Starting to get loud now!

The last photo of the stage, as we were too busy packing up the gear to take photo's!

04:03 - Yes, that does say I will be home at 5:59 AM!

04:17 - On the A1 just about to leave the North of Ireland

04:18 - How depressing - the sat nav says turn left in 92.1 km!

04:41 - The fact that the sun is coming up just makes you realise that it is in fact the next day...

...so its Red Bull time!!!

05:47 - The sun is fully up now, so I just want to go to bed!

06:16 - Does this really need an explanation???

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Luan Parle on Stage

The stage outside Wicklow Gaol rocked the town with the help of 4 subs from AMP Sound Systems. Luan Parle played a beautiful set as expected. Was thoroughly proud that our equipment shared a stage with Luan once again. An array of D&B Q1′s from Acoustik completed the rig.

The sun kept shining and made for a magical day!

M7CL at Mix position

Eoin & Luan after the gig

Colm Mac Con Iompaire of The Frames

Violin and vocalist with The Frames, Colm Mac Con Iompaire got married this weekend – and AMP Sound Systems was there to provide the PA system. The music played until 2.40AM when things calmed down into an acoustic session. Notable guests included Glen and the rest of The Frames, Mundy and many others. The PA performed flawlessly and everyone had an amazing night.

Congratulations Colm, and we all wish you the very best in the future.

It was only a school’s graduation mass. But it was in an Olympic sizes basketball court, and there was a choir and a small band to work around! The place came also with a free 12 second reverb!!

The Room

The venue - an Olympic sized basketball court!

The first challenge was getting over the extra long reverb that the room naturally created. You could not understand someone shouting across the hall at you! It would be impossible to have a conversation.

So we deployed a system of “delay” speakers midway down the hall. The aim of this was to keep the SPL, or overall volume lower but with even coverage throughout the entire hall. There will be a blog post soon on this very topic which will go into more detail on delays and how they work.

Basically though, we measured the distance between the main speakers and our delay speakers, and taking the air temperature into account, we worked out the time it would take for the sound to travel from the main speakers to the delays and programmed the system accordingly.

The Stage

The Stage

The stage contained an alter and a podium. I put a nice goose neck AKG podium mic on the podium, and a Shure SM87 on a stand in front of the alter.

There were many different guests and students speaking at the podium, so I compressed that channel quite hard to save me mixing it too much. When some people were talking it took nearly 18dB’s of gain out, while others didn’t even hit the compressor.

The same went for the alter – sometimes the priest was directly in front of the mic, and other times he was quite far away and off axis to it. I just compressed it very hard to keep it even.

The Band and Choir

The "Choir"

Ok, band may be a bit of an exaggeration. There were 2 acoustic guitars and an electric piano. We DI’d all of these, and placed 2 wedges in the area so the choir could hear the band. I also sent a small bit of the Alter mic to those wedges so the choir could hear their cue from the priest.

In front of the choir, I placed 2 AKG condensor mics quite high. In between these 2 stands there was a Shure SM58 for some solo songs.

The Mix!

Small size, but all the power I needed - 01V!

I decided to mix on the Yamaha 01v for its flexibility and power in such a small size. I needed lots of compressors for this gig, and the 01v was the right choice with these built in.

I wasn’t aware that the lights were being turned off half way through the mass to show a slide show presentation, so I grabbed the nearest candle and managed to see the desk again! Other than that, the gig couldn’t have gone better – a bit of maths and lots of smart thinking rescued a gig which could have been a disaster!