CARBONSTONE scored a show with Evolver on March 19th, which is cool. Brian, our buddy at Baltimore Sound Management has really been hooking us up lately with some good shows. Then last night we get a call from him again with a spot on a 98 Rock Haiti benefit. This is huge in 2 ways. One we get to finally do a show for/with 98 Rock in front of what will probably be the biggest crowd we have ever played in front of, and we get to do something good for people in need in the process.
Threshold Productions also has a show this Saturday at Jams Music Store, barring any inclement weather. I'll put up fliers for all of these events at the bottom of this post.
Last Sunday I was at the studio having band practice and managed to spill egg-drop soup on the console. As can be imagined I freaked out. So I ran to CVS and grabbed a can of WD-40 and a can of compressed air. Didn't seem to help, channels 2 and 3 were doing bad things when I tried patching them in. I was ready to resign myself to being the proud new owner of a 30 channel board instead of 32. The the owner of the store called me on Monday asking my why the mixer would not turn on so that he could play a CD. I was a little nervous at first, but we figured out that the power switch is backwards from what he was expecting it to be, so no biggie. Then he calls me Tuesday and asks me if I had come in the night before to mess with the system. I told him no and he proceeded to tell me about my worst nightmare. The system was making horrible noises, even with the console powered off. I started running through all the outboard gear over the phone to make sure he had everything turned on properly. I did hear the noise over the phone by the way, it was not pretty. So I said "you know what? I'm just gonna head on over there. Because if the mixer is out of commission, then I need to get the other one wired up in it's place for the show on Saturday". I show up and fire everything up, and guess what? EVERYTHING is working fine, even channels 2 and 3. I'm more than a little confused at this point as well as the store owner. I called the repair shop and told them to get me a number on a new 8 channel module just in case since it is being so unpredictable.
I also took the time to do a real nice, neat job of wiring the stage. I have never seen the stage look so free for the roaming, and there are 3 half-stacks and an SVT Classic 8x10 cab and head on stage, all mic'd up and ready to go. I Put the snake box under the drum riser, and took advantage of some of the rather well thought out holes that guitar repair guy drilled in the floor of the stage, and ran all the cables under the stage. I also tied the multi-track back into the system. That was the first time I fired it up since getting it back from the shop. I was happy to see it fire up and do it's job without flaking out on me. So, I'm all ready to do a multi-track recording of the show, broadcast a live board dump and video over the web, and still be able to offer a another board dump to anyone who happens to bring in their laptop to the show to record a particular bands set. I really need to set up my last spare aux out for broadcasting so that I can get a different mix, one better balanced for broadcasting.
That's about all for now. Here are the flyers...
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