Bass Addiction: Day 9: The Quad Setup

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Day 9: The Quad Setup

Monday 26 September 2011, 10:00pm

Having a break right now in an extremely stuffy place with a terrible headache due to the severe lack of oxygen. Everything is back to practices and rehearsals back at the Lindsay hall, after all, there is going to be a performance tomorrow that we do not know what we will be playing, now that’s improvisation!

Today, it’s back to rehearsal again, after 2 free-and-easy days of resting and fun, it’s time to get back to work. Well, the routine of breakfast → rehearsal →lunch→rehearsal returns.

The major thing that happened today was setting up the quad setup for our performance tomorrow. What is a quad setup? Essentially it is just four speakers setup up at the 4 corners of a rectangular room facing one another.

To better explain this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadraphonic_sound

It’s actually really fun mixing live sound with this method. Setting this up takes quite a while though for these guys in Keele it was almost instant a sthey normally have a 8 speakers setup, so four speakers to them was a piece of cake.

It’s really fun have four speakers to play around with, you have two more areas on sonic estate to play around with since you have an additional 2 speakers behind, the fun part is, you can move the sound around the room just by playing with the pan knob and grouping switch. It’s sure going to be a fun time doing sound and performing on the mixer tmr… okay, will need to rest now, will keep you guys updated of more from sonic escapade.