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Choosing the right PA for the venue
From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush
Choosing the right PA for the venue
When you come into the building early in the morning, first thing you do is you get the sell sheet, so that you know where the people are actually sitting. Once you know where they are, then you start taking into consideration, maybe the building is askew, maybe one side has luxury boxes, one doesn't, maybe one side has a big glass wall, maybe another doesn't. If we hadn't sold well upstairs, or we didn't have anybody upstairs, we might not bring in as many speakers. So having the knowledge of what's going on in the building may make it easier in the afternoon once they start listening to the PA system, and feeling it out, and knowing what's going on. If you walk into a club, if you walk into a bar, you walk into a theater, and you want to assess where the things are that are going to cause the problems for the day. One side has a hard wall, maybe you're in a theater. One side's got a hard plaster wall, and the other side is a soft wall. Maybe you've got a bar on one side that you…
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Starting the day with the big picture1m 7s
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Choosing the right PA for the venue1m 24s
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Unloading the trucks and load-in1m 6s
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Audio rigging: Points50s
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Audio rigging: Motors and cables4m 30s
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Audio rigging: Trusses1m 1s
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Amplifier racks2m 10s
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The best combination of analog and digital signal paths38s
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Audio rigging: Feeder and power2m 16s
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Flying the PA speaker arrays3m 56s
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Discussing the advantages of subwoofers and front-fill speakers1m 4s
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Where's the best place to sit at the venue?50s
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