Ultra Music Festival and Line array systems!

For some reason I can't seem to stop obsessing over sound and technical stuff.

I suppose that might be a good thing!

So over the past weekend Miami hosted the yearly Ultra Music Festival. The festival is all about DJ's and House/Techno/Electronic music producers coming together and performing to their fans. With so many artists performing at the event, the festival goer has many different stages or tents to choose from.

Unfortunately I was not able to go but I did catch the live stream on Ultra TV's Youtube page. I was impressed with the content and the setup of the overall event but not too impressed over the stream freezing very frequently at times.

With that aside I took to scooping out what Line Array systems they were using for the event.

For those who don't know what a Line Array system is, please read Wikipedia's description. Their definition is accurate and trustworthy in my opinion.

Line Array - Wikipedia

From all the pictures and videos I've seen so far I can say that they made really good choices on their systems. Below is a list of stages and systems that were in use.

Main Stage:
d&b Audio - J Series - db audiotechnik - J Series Line Array

40x of J12 Speaker modules (Yes I counted... Only because they were clearly visible in the picture!)
??x of J-Subs (No clear picture showing them all)
??x of B2 Subs from the d&b Audio C series

Carl Cox and Friends Tent:
DAS Audio - Aero Series 2 -

??x of Aero 50 Speaker Modules
Unknown subwoofers

I could not make exactly how many speakers or what subwoofers they had.

Klipsch Amphitheater:
d&b Audio - J Series - db audiotechnik - J Series Line Array

28x of J12 Speaker modules (Counted again!)
30x of B2 Subs from the d&b Audio C series

Here is a picture of the Klipsch Amphitheater stage being setup:

And last but not least here is a picture of the main stage from the back (The line array system is on the right):

I hope you guys have learnt something new!

As always thanks for reading and hope you guys enjoyed it!

mooder

Club system disaster! Part 2

From my last post I mentioned that I was doing work at this club that had issues with their system.

The past week I have managed to go back and fix up 'part' of their mess!

Here is a before of the equipment rack wiring with no Speakon connectors:

Here's an after with the connectors installed:

If you have paid attention the the picture differences you will see that I have switched the wires going to the amps around as the bottom amplifier was way too powerful for the subwoofers.

However I'm still not done yet! I will have to go back and remove the amplifier right above the last amplifier in order to get the next set of subwoofers working!

As always I will be reporting back about this next week!

mooder

Club system disaster! Part 1

So in my previous post I breifly mentioned that I was doing work at a club which had serious issues with their system.

So I have a few pictures to share just to show what I have have to deal with!

First off is the wiring mess. Just shows what clueless people can do when installing a system.

Second, the wiring for the amplifer rack is done really badly since its messy and makes it harder to correct problems.

I should note that the white wire going into the amp is hard wired in. In some cases it's pefectly fine to do so only if its done right.

So to insure that the cabling will be connected properly I went ahead and ordered what they call Speakon Connectors which look like this:

It allows speakers to be hooked into amps properly and also make maintaining the system easier as the connectors are lock and twist so they can be removed easily! I will be going in this week to finish wiring the amps and I will definetley take pictures!

Untill next time!

mooder

Sound work!

So over the past month or so I've been going to a local club around the area and been helping them out sort out their sound system!

I've always been doing sound work back home in Dubai so it was nice for a change to do some work here!

Also this club introduced me to another club which had serious issues with their system which I will talk about in the next post!

mooder

Ableton and Synth madness!

This week I decided to take the oppertunity to play with Ableton, software that is mostly used in making music along with multiple synth programs.

For those who don't know what a synth is, refer to this page:

Synthesizer - Wikipedia

So far I have made small progress with figuring out how to link various things in the software as well as find a way to record sounds that come out of the software I use.

I still have a lot to learn and play with but I'm really hoping I can get somewhere with this!

Here is a sample of what I made:

Chilly Pathway - Soundcloud

As always, Thanks for reading!

mooder

Genelec's are here! Pure sound goodness!

Hello there!

So its been a while since I posted... Yeah yeah blah blah I know I should post more but I'm just really lazy as some of you reading know!

So last week the Genelec's I have ordered arrived. Same exact ones a few posts back but I had a problem with them.

For starters, they just didn't sound right. I don't know why but the ones I have back in Dubai sound just more than perfect and just to add the right side speaker was defective!

Decided to send them back and got myself the bigger versions the Genelec 8040A.

Here they are just arrived (Excuse me for the blurry image! >.<):

And here is the left side fully setup:

One word to describe them: Expensive! Actually, more like Amazing is the right word here!

They are well worth the amount I've paid but they really do bring out some parts of the stuff I listen to and hopefuly they will be used a lot once I get my self into the world of Electronic Music Production!

Stay tuned for my next post!

mooder