Cheap & Cheerful VS Big Brand!

Will that Midas desk really make your band sound better? Surely that Klark Teknik graphic cant make a whole lot of difference? Pay €100,000 for a PA or €10,000? All the above questions are questions that I have asked myself before – other than the band bit, so in my case my client’s band. I [...]

Now thats my kinda gig!

You may have noticed from the blog posts so far that I generally get more excited about the “different” gigs! This one was certainly different! 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 [...]

My next console – the DiGiCo SD8

Half way through every year, we sit down and work out what to spend our hard earned cash on next year in a bid to constantly improve our already impressive inventory of high-end live audio equipment. Decisions like this usually take about 6 months, so we can explore options and try out some gear. Last [...]

My Introduction to Digital Mixing – The Yamaha 01V

12 Mono Inputs, Parametric EQ’s, racks of compressors, a few effects units…… and you can carry it all with one hand!

One of the best decisions in my whole career was to put a bid on a second hand 01v on adverts.ie. I paid under €300 for it, and on my way home got a call from someone desperately looking for a hand on a gig. It seemed simple – just a simple lack of expertise on their part and they got out of their depth.