That night, a seven foot wall of water hit Dundrum Town Centre, the resultant flood rolling down the Spanish steps at Harvey Nichols and into the scene dock and dressing rooms of the theatre, through the ceilings and walls. The green room which had been decorated just ten weeks earlier was destroyed.

On the 18th of Feb, The Mill Theatre held a fundraising benefit night to raise funds to fully renovate all areas affected and restore them to their previous comfort. The show was sold out, and featured talent like Joe Conlon, Eoin Cannon, Alison Vard Miller and many more special guests. AMP Sound Systems was proud to provide equipment and a sound engineer for the event.

We have not had time to edit and clean it up, but here is a raw desk recording of the show. Have a flick through it and see what you missed!

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For more information, or to book Eoin for a show, please visit EoinOGrady.ie.

Please take a look at the price list below and get in touch to discuss your requirements.

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

When DiGiCo introduced the SD9 – a complete, integrated system, which includes the mixing surface, a D-Rack digital stage interface and CAT 5E digital multicore, with the additional ability to simultaneously record 56 channels – we were immediately interested.

After reviewing many other digital mixing solutions we quickly found that the DiGiCo SD9 ticked all the boxes.

It’s functionality and feature’s gave us everything we needed for the continued pursuit of delivering the highest quality audio to our clients. The audio quality surpassed that of any other console we tested. The excellent sound quality of the SD9 was the main reason for us purchasing this desk. It’s ease of use let our engineers get straight to what they do best – mixing your show – rather than fighting through pages and menu’s. It’s small frame size and portability ensures that we do not need to increase prices to our customers in the form of extra staff or transport costs.

The excellent sound quality of the SD9 was the main reason for us purchasing this desk.

It is planned that the SD9 will primarily go out to our musical theatre events as it is perfectly suited to the job. The neatness and aesthetics of the board lets it fit into your theatre without making too much of a visual impact or taking out too many audience seats. The well thought out snapshot features also help with complicated shows. However, this will not be it’s sole purpose. The board will be attending many other events and we also look forward to taking it out on a rock ‘n’ roll tour early next year.

AMP Sound Systems would like to sincerely thank James Lawford of DiGiCo for taking the hours of phone calls to ensure any question we may have had were answered. We would also like to thank Michael, Sean and Gerry from Rea Sound (the Irish distributors for DiGiCo) for allowing us to take the SD9 out for a demo and ensuring our purchase went without a hiccup.

This means that we have equipment and engineers available this week. If you have been let down by your sound company due to the adverse weather conditions, or are a sound hire company yourself and need us to cover one of your gigs, please do not hesitate to give us a ring on (01) 524 2720 and hopefully we will be able to help you out.

Thanks to Eoin at AMP Systems for providing a wonderful sound system for our party in Solas, Dublin. He braved a snow blizzard to get it out to us, so I really appreciate their dedication to their clients. He was always friendly, helpful, and flexible.

Thanks again!

– Louise Bernstein

Yeah it's pretty!

The budget has been set aside for the new console – but the search continues to try to find the best performing mixing platform that will add to our already impressive inventory of pro audio equipment. We need something with the highest audio quality, 100% reliability, and a small footprint to keep staff costs down for our customers.

And no more tape!!

So we decided to take the Avid (formerly Digidesign) VENUE SC48 out for a test drive. It ticked all the boxes we were looking for – except one. The console was beautifully simple to use. 2 of our engineers who had never seen the desk before took to it like a duck to water. The audio quality blew the Yamaha’s out of the water. And to keep with the H20 references, we sank like a stone when we tried to lift it! The desk was beautiful, but just too heavy! It immediately added a bill for another staff member for the day, and we were not happy with passing this cost onto the customer.

Easy to love!

We will certainly take it out as much as we can on shows where we have the staff anyway, but for the moment, the search for a compact, small/medium size digital desk continues!

But on the bright side, it does have an awesome Vegas mode! Check out all the flashing lights and buttons in the video below!

Enjoy!

The rig consisted of a groundstacked array of 4 D&B Q7′s on top of 2 QSubs on either side of the stage, with a centre cluster of Meyer HP600′s. FoH was mixed on a Yamaha M7CL. Wedges were a combination of D&B Max12′s and EV sxA250′s.

Click on an image below to enlarge!

The video below shows the terrible effects of a bored sound engineer:

The band graced the Circus Tent with a completely new and improved set list, which also included some stunning new tracks. But of course didn’t neglect to open the set with their ever powerful “Howrya Folk” and slip in “Be Easy” somewhere in the middle!

Music by The Eskies has the creativity, musical talent and catchyness that will see them sneaking into the charts very soon.

Unfortunately, I had to reset my “time without analogue desk” counter, as the Front of House mixer was the Midas Venice 320. A fine console, but an analogue console! However I don’t mind this time, as I would have done anything to mix the gig anyway!

Keep your eye on The Eskies. Get to one of their gigs if you can!

http://www.theeskies.com/

Listen to “The Eskies – Be Easy“