The Sound Couple - Welcome to the Hotel Downtown
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- The Sound Couple venture off to support the band for a corporate gig which included working with the AV provider to support a multi-event evening.
This video highlights a few important factors:
- Remember to always have parking addressed for downtown or limited space venues. Understand where you are parking beforehand and charge accordingly!
- Flexibility and sometimes negotiations are required for multi-production supported events! Planning is key, but there will always be surprises.
- Remember that ballrooms can acoustically be misleading...many bigger ballrooms are very live rooms, and for live music, you may not need as much as you think (we could have gotten by with half the system for this gig).
The Sound Couple primarily use PreSonus gear featuring:
PreSonus UC Surface
PreSonus CDL12
PreSonus CDL18s
PreSonus 32R
PreSonus SW5E
PreSonus NSB Stageboxes
PreSonus AVB-D16 - Hudba
I love the content. As a fellow musician in a band, people rarely get to see this part of it. The long nights. Keep doing your thing.
If they only knew…. And the ones that do know, are all the more appreciative when we’re the ones doing it!
This is the real part of lifetime as a sound engineer. If you are linving near by me. I'd buy you a beer.
Thanks for watching! Appreciate the comment!
Thanks for a great documentary of the process! Great job guys! Anxiously awaiting more.
Man! You Guys are too much! We really appreciate comments like this as seriously, we weren't expecting this type of feedback. Glad you enjoy them, and we have more in the works!
Great sound system set up. . Love the work you guys do.
Much appreciated!
Crushed it! Since my son is becoming my assistant on events, I show him the troubleshooting you do in real time and its an invaluable training aid, so thank you for always showing what issues you come across! And... even though the beta 52 isn't my main kick mic, if I have an issue I always use that as a back up and it always works great! Stay safe and happy new year!
Thanks John - we want to keep it real and mistakes and problems are a part of every gig. My saying is that nothing is a problem until it's a problem and there will always be problems... so it's about how your resolve them is where experience comes in and always keeping your cool.
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Greetings from Chicago!!! As a mobile sound guy myself, I find myself inspired by you two to keep going at this thing. I've admired that PreSonus setup since I started watching you two. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching! Part of our story is to demonstrate the complete ecosystem. There are plenty of product videos but no real world examples of people using it all that we’re aware of. So we kind of motivated ourselves to say if nobody else is doing it, then maybe we need to!
@@thesoundcouple Great ..
The band sounds great....brilliant! That singer wow
Arguably, the Twin Cities of MN have some of the best musicians and music....we (Stacy and I) are lucky to work with some of them!
I don't work with sound, but I admire everything you do to have a good sound environment in a show, concert, among others... one more subscriber!
Thanks! Our goal was to give anyone a taste of what it takes to put on a show!
Greetings from Down Under! I love the CDL rig. We run SL312AI, SL18S AI and SL328AI over Dante a lot of the time. Nice to see the issues we all face in our industry are global. Enjoyed your video.
That's so cool! Hope you are able to share more stories with us!
Hello from South Africa!! 🇿🇦 i love seeing what you both are doing in these videos 😊 I've been watching and liking all your videos since I got recommended this channel by CZcams. Keep it up Stacy and Bart!! Can't wait to see more content!! 🤗❤️
Thanks for watching! Glad our content can keep you entertained! Our summer is booked so don’t worry, we will have plenty of new content coming up. Always curious as to how different it is for everyone else in other countries…
Another Saffer👋🇿🇦
Warms my heart to see Stacy working long side you supporting you great work guys
We are lucky that we are able to do this together!
I enjoyed watching you guys awesome job absolutely Amen
Glad we can entertain!
Good job guys, sound was great. Have a happy New Year
Thank you! We really appreciate it. Happy New Year!
Very cool video, Its nice to see the behind the scenes of sound setup. Congrats on a job well done.
Thank you very much! Behind the scenes is part of why we started this channel!
Was fun watching. After doing sound/lighting/backline/pyro-technics for 40+ years. I don't miss the long hours. While guests are eating steak and lobster. Promoters will inevitably end up giving us hideous box meals. Always pack protein bars, granola and plenty of H2O. ✌️❤️ and 👍 keep doing what you love.
Thanks for sharing William! We bring a cooler and food to us to every gig! Also, we verify what the food accommodations will be.
Have watched a lot of your vids. You guys earn ever penny you make.
Thanks Jerry!
You guys always come thru with a great show nice
We do our best to pull through...we have had some close calls over the years!
Great... keep the spirit friends.. and always be healthy
Thanks...same to you!
great job,and a nice setup,and that band played well
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Congratulation! I've realized in last time period the I'm quite not interested about how loud the sound is, rather than sound ingenering that is awesome! Once again congratulations! (I've realized that those kind of stuffs aren't quite easy but they are super! I think it's hard to manage but it gives you a positive energy when you see that all people are going happy from the event where you've bring a professional sound system! Good-luck!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍🙂
Thanks and thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Appreciate the content, I enjoyed every bit of it.
For those unaware, any event like this should, would likely have an event coordinator/manager that's a single point of contact for everything... regardless how big or little.
Also, an event document should've been generated and distributed ... detailing each relevant element of importance.
Load in/load out accommodations, parking details, security, room setup, pipe and drape, electrical needs, internet needs, trash cans and housekeeping, food/beverage, etc.
Also, typically there's house phones whereby one can contact a central dispatch operation to facilitate getting one what they need.
Regarding the parking of your van, the event document would state, "after load in, Pro Audio contractor will park adjacent to loading dock B" ... for example.
Or "at the conclusion of X the lecturn is to be struck from downstage right".
It's worth noting, just as they mentioned in the vid, indoor loading docks are wonderful, for a variety of reasons!
One standout impression of mine, after just now discovering your channel and viewing this one... I saw nobody around the back of house area. My only guess a slow night with a modestly attended event...
Much appreciated
Details and a plan are so subjective and how much work people elect to put into them....we still occasionally irritate event planners on what would be the most basic of questions. We are lucky (by design) that we are pretty self sufficient.....we should have just left the lectern on stage!
You deserve more view, I appreciate your work and love your channel, keep it up ❤️
Thanks a lot for the compliment....our channel has grown lately and that is nice, but not our primary goal. It's more about trying provide useful information through our story and hopefully help others out along the way! Wish we would of done it years ago as there are gigs I am sure that will never be repeated again...those were the hungry years but now we can be selective of who we work with.
Very good sound sistem and really good band!!! The perfect combination for a good party night… 👌🏻✌🏼
This was a great night! Thanks for watching!
Great Job Sir , Love you 👍❤️🙏
Thanks! We hope you are able to check out some of our other videos!
I love you guys!!! Great job !!
Cool! Appreciate that and thank you!
I enjoyed this, thanks and good job
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you!
We are a husband/wife team as well! These gigs are a workout! Keeps us in shape
That's how we look at it as well....just another day at the gym!
Simply loved the content 😊😊 and the best part was when she switched off the top array with the coke bottle 😂😂❤️❤️
Thanks- short persons tricks! (I definitely have a disadvantage, except when it comes to loading the van!)
Awesome video! Thanks for using PreSonus! My band's rig is very similar to yours - CDL's with a 32R and the Nowsonic router.
Thanks Rick! Appreciate you you taking the time to check it out!
Thank you for sharing this video, goodluck for your job always...
Thank you Samuel!
Wonderful!
Glad you like it! Thank you!
Hi Bart, I agree with you about the Shure Beta 52A, I have used just about every "kick" mic available including old vintage AKG D12, EV RE20, AKG D12E, Audix D6, Sennheiser 902 and all of them work and do the job, BUT,,,, to me, the Beta 52A is the only mic that can be used without any EQ and it always sounds really nice. Always enjoyable to watch you guys! Here's to a PROSPEROUS New Year!!!!!!!!!for all of us :)
Thanks...in the end they are just tools and it's more about how you use them..but the 52 is a tool that makes me get the sound I want more than any other mic I have used...your list is a bit longer than mine :)
@@thesoundcouple :) Fun sharing :)
I am from India ...I love your videos, keep up the good content
Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching! We have more coming soon!
I like this video it's really nice
Shows start to finish good job
Thanks Tony! It's always a balancing act as to what we include in our videos and not make them 3 hours long....so we try to capture the key elements to paint the whole picture and point out interesting things that pop up.
Its a shame that the dancefloor was so empty the whole time.... great band and great sound
That’s pretty typical for these corporate gigs! Agreed, they were a great band.
Great sound system 👌
Appreciate it...thanks!
Subscribed! I'm learning so much. Keep going
Thank you! More coming soon!
Im a fan!!! your rig is awesome!!!
Thanks! We’ve had great success with this configuration.
Nice mix and it's awesome
Thank you!
Great job 💫💫
Appreciate the feedback! We try our best!
Cable boxes and rearranging per gig. I know the feels!
BTW, I use Mastercraft boxes from Menards for my cabling. They lock into each other, and the bottom box has wheels and a handle! Milwaukee, Ryobi and others make similar boxes. I overstack 6 boxes on each other! Serious time saver!
Good job, love from Indonesia
Thank you!
Hola desde México. Very nice, great work. Congratulation
Thanks for watching!
It's amazing sounds system very nice..
Thanks...we try our best to make every gig sound as good as possible!
I like the setup 👌 😎 🇯🇲👍🎤🎹🎼🥁
Thank you!
Nice setup sir! Line array wow!
I think it's nice to DJ with that thing!
It will do that too!
I live at events and i know exactly what means to finish the night and go back home... Congratulations
Thanks! We hope that by sharing some of our experiences can be helpful to you!
Love your channel. When I have a loaded rock n roller cart I find it easier to push with the smaller steering castor wheels behind. Easier to control corners etc. :)
Haven't thought of that, but will try. We like ours but not sure if we should have purchased with the wide front wheels...
Good sound great job 👍👍
Thanks so much!
Love your channel! I have watched all your videos on CZcams. Me and my wife also work as a duo for our production/ DJ company. It’s good to see some positive work vibes. Saludos from DJ Flex 💪🏽 in West Texas
That is great! So we are not alone! Thank you for watching ALL of the videos...that's pretty cool.
Great job guys, It’s kinda cool to see other couples doing this , my wife and I also have a sound/DJ business although I prefer the sound side we tend to get more gigs for djing weddings
@@jamiegeorge4167 That is cool....thanks!
Professional Sound system and make wonder.
Thanks!
Great set up!!! This is what started back playing keyboards! I was doing full set ups like this to include full lights!!! The money was good tho but me and my wife was running hard!!!!!!
It is a lot of work, but we try to be as efficient as possible!
@@thesoundcouple Great job sir and awesome gear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saludos desde Cuba 🇨🇺 Gran trabajo.
¡Bienvenido... le agradecemos que lo vea!
Not quite what I was looking for, but very informative. I know lifting that subwoofer was not as easy as you made it look, those woofers are very heavy. I was looking at how to set up several speakers at once and found this. I did learn something though. Thank you.
Thanks! Hope you are able to check out some other videos!
Nice job. I do a LOT of events like this with similar bands (I think I have a video or two of my setup). I’d combine your rack gear into a single 12sp on wheels, that’s another thing you don’t have to lift. Load subs first, stacked, any racks behind, fill in with speakers. Use a magline for a cart. I’d even use a single 15/2” to cut down on main speakers (less to carry). Efficiency is everything
Efficiency is a journey and we are always looking for ways to improve. Thanks!
love my rocking roller r16! I'm a dj and I have yet to learn how to mix a room. wish you more success in 2022.
Thank you! This is our second one after the first broke and axel after many solid years. This one has the solid tires, which is cool that they are maintenance free and they are wider as well. Does a great job but doesn't roll quite as easily the pneumatic tires did.
I'm a DJ and I have to say these Gig Log are interesting.. New Sub!
Thank you! Thanks for peeking into the dark side! We check out some of the DJ logs as well. It’s interesting to see how everyone works.
@@thesoundcouple thanks
Watching from PHILLIPINES
Thanks for watching!
Looks good and simple
It was! Thanks for watching.
I don't know much about Presonus also because in Italy as a brand it is not very widespread but I really like how you have organized yourself in terms of wiring and connections, also because when you find yourself having to manage a stage by yourself and also having to take care of assembling and disassembling everything in time reasonably fast, if you are not organized well, you are in for big problems. I really appreciate your way of working.
Thanks so much! Glad you’re enjoying our videos!
Sir. You do not fully understand how wonderful your lady is. Help me? All I've ever gotten is "When are you going to be home?" I hope you worship the ground she walks on. Very interesting vlog, by the way. SUbscribed.
Thanks, I do appreciate that and hopefully you will enjoy our future content.
Great video 👍
Thanks for watching!
New watcher here;
Couple of takeaways for me:
* encore is international, they are here in Australia too in a large way!
* make a cart for your line array and ramp for van already 😂
Edit: great mix 👌 especially considering the room. Good job 👏
Thanks - interesting to learn that Encore is international.
Curious as to what kind of cart would work with the line array?
As for the ramp ... keep watching our past ones, we address that!
Yup... we've got those jokers in Canada too... I did a gig recently where they provided PA, and it was a shit show.... barely found enough XLR, PA was wired up wrong, 1 of the cabs had a blown tweeter, wasn't a decent mic stand in sight... all that and I was stuck mixing on their shitty soundcraft SI impact.
Good Job!
Appreciate it! Thanks!
Good to see you using Presonus equipment.
We have for years!
Thx 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
very nice sir Iam all so PA system superb for u r video Ramesh from India
Thanks and welcome!
I loved your content - congrats keep it up 👏👏👏👏 Pro Content 🪩🪩
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying it - appreciated!
Keep up the good work. FYI, PSAV is Encore
Thank you! Yes, I believe they merged.
I really love seeing those soft cases and bags instead of hard or flight case. They are lightweight, protect the gear pretty well, and scratch free. For some equipment it really helps more in the case of small transport and small crew member.
Appreciate your insights...we used to carry more road cases, but as we scaled down and became more modular, soft cases made more sense to us...please check out this video for more perspective: czcams.com/video/jT-Eycnrxws/video.html
So nice
Cooooooool!!
Thank you!
@The Sound Couple love watching ur vids
Nice work
Thank you! Cheers!
"Horn guy will bring his own mic"
*He didn't.* lol that one is so classic. Let that be a lesson to everyone watching, if you're a sound person just be prepared to take care of everything yourself, and if you're a musician, if you say you're going to do something, please DO it.
What's really funny is that at the previous gig, he was taking ours off the stand to put his on....so we can't win. We are always prepared and that is sort of the way we fly....but I have worked for others, more in the A/V world, if it ain't on the sheet, they ain't getting it.
@@thesoundcouple Yeah sometimes ya can’t win for losin’. I am a musician/bandleader first and sound guy second. We always supply our own PA for band gigs, and I’ve done PA for bands other than my own too, I just wish musicians had more of a grasp on the sound side and in some cases I wish the sound guys had more of a grasp on the playing side. It’s like you said “the left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand” sometimes. It’s can be a bit of a herding cats situation trying to run a tight ship with so many different types of characters out there. I commend you both!
@@djjazzyjeff1232 Thanks again...couldn't agree more! You should see my gig bag...even carry guitar strings and straps :(
Mantap pakdhe.. Joss
Terima kasih!
Woow! Muito top✌️✌️
Thanks!
I already know by looking at the sound check on the iPad that you are using a Presonus Studio Live mixer. I have one for the church and love it!
For sure...it's worked out well for us!
Nice looking system! You guys hustle! I am a little worried about your back someday in the future.... Be safe
Thank you!! Stacy and I have let COVID hit us a bit on the conditioning side, but we are getting back into shape and working out is part of our gig routine! We are committed to getting stronger for 2022 and thankfully, neither of us have back issues.
@@thesoundcouple Nice gig log, another way to save your back for the future is, to push not pull. Chiropractor explained it to me. Also bend down like a baby, instead of bending over. I started taking the doctors advice and i have had no back issues in five years. I always bend at the knee and squat down to pick anything up and i always push my carts. The injury to the back comes after you done all the bending and pulling. It could be a week after, you might just cough and bring on a back injury or sneeze or bend over to put on a shoe. The damage was done weeks ago from pulling something or bending to pick up a cable. Good luck this year and good health.
Ô lá sou Leandro sou Brasileiro do Estado do Pará trabalho com sonorização, gostei muito da forma que vocês trabalham, aprendi muito com vocês, obrigado
Parabéns!👋👋👋👋
É ótimo ouvir de você. Obrigado pelo seu comentário!
Ótimo vídeo, e bom trabalho
Obrigado!
I like the vid and your work. I am a musician but I would like to do sound. Great job sound couple.
Thanks! I hope that our videos are able to help you!
I just ordered the same mixer! Replacing my A&H QU-16!
Congrats! I have only seen a display unit of an QU-16. Seems like a good console, but it's not a rack mixer. This format for us saves an incredible amount of time as everything remains hooked up and we just pull the covers and go!
Veri nice sound sir madam ji
Bhut sunder sound bja rhe ho ap
Good job sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!
You guys are so amazing...I love the fact that you made the setup so simple.
I do love those sets of speakers and I wanna ask what make of speakers are those? I mean the arrays, sub's and wedges.
You can check out a partial gear list in the “About” section. For speakers, we are using PreSonus.
like the sound system
We do too! It serves us well!
muy bien !
Sound good
Thanks!
Good job
Thank you for noticing....we were pretty happy how this one turned out!
Muito massa!
¡Me alegra que lo hayas disfrutado! ¡Gracias por ver!
Go Stacey Girl!
Woot! Woot! Shout out to Stacy! Love it!
nice!!!!
Thank you and thanks for watching!
I Like your konten....
The Best Your Sound... 👍👍
Thanks!
Nice vid and great system! Will say for myself as a professional musician tho, I'm not a fan of corporate and hotel gigs. Even tho they usually pay pretty damn well. Give me a seedy dive bar where I can turn it up and let loose.
Agreed - If you check out are other videos, we do a wide variety of gigs which really helps to break things up and keeps it fresh.
Great job Bart👍 love your content
may I ask you a question: how did you fix that boomy kick drum which can be heard at about 16:20?
I saw that it was in the FOH mix later on and it fit perfectly in the mix without that booming
Greetings from Germany/Bavaria
I can't recall technically what we did here...and we probably did (perhaps a cut in 50-60Hz). However, an empty room will always sound different. In some cases, the room will change with more bodies and more heat, or these transient frequencies will become lost as the noise floor increases. So it's a balance of knowing how much change to address at this time. I find myself sometimes adding back what I took away during soundcheck!
Hello from the Philippines, i also have 328's and the presonus 32AI. I use a CS18 for FOH and an ipad
So cool to hear! We hope you can pick up a few tips!
Live sound reinforcement for small venues has come a long way since I did it in the late 70's through the early 90's. But I will say this: I would never rely on a wireless connection for anything except wireless mics in a pro gig, and I was never happy about doing that. The ability to walk around and change the mix is cool though. Never had that back in the day!
You got me thinking about the first time I officially "ran sound". I actually remember I was about 11 years old which would have been around '78.....then there was the school bands, etc, but it wasn't until 1998 that I guess it kind of stuck.
@@thesoundcouple For me it was '77. I was 13.
Do you guys have anybody in Worcester, Ma where audio live can be rented, set up and run?
@@edwardbannor8857 Hi Edward - no we don't. We are localized to our area.
Beautiful set up. Would you mind sharing what main arrays you using here and what digital mixer are you using on Ipad? Thanks in advance.
Thanks for watching! We use PreSonus CDL12 for the array, and our mixer is PreSonus 32R with the UC surface software for iPad.
Top !!
Thanks!
Does presonus not have double 18” subs ? Or did you chose single 18” because it’s easier to lug around? Also any difference in sound quality? 2x single 18” vs double 18”?
PreSonus doesn't offer a dual 18" model. We used to own several dual 18's" EAW cabinets. When we scaled down to a more modular system, going with single 18" for us so we had more options. Sonically, I don't think there is a huge difference...it's more about factoring the logistics of a single vs. double.
Being a hybrid speaker half array/half point source do these throw sound out pretty far like a line array at a concert when stacking 2 up? I see you have them in large conference rooms and outdoor bands on dual sub stacks. Looking into buying 4 of them if so! Or is there a pretty hard cutoff point when you're far back? Thanks!
Good question but hard to answer since it's all relative. To the best of my opinion, I believe the cabinets throw pretty well without a hard cut. I have demonstrated in some videos that we can be around 100dB at over 100 ft out. I would believe that a true line array would work better, but the tradeoff is the work it takes to accomplish that. Our gigs don't require it and the budgets are certainly not there for us to justify the investment in a true line array. These cabinets for us fill that middle ground where we are able to get the job done and everyone is happy.