The bands were standard fair bluesy/classic to modern rock/ a few pop tunes. Each had 4-5 instruments. The system reproduced the bands with a clear punchy sound. Due sub placement I had some room mode issues with some low end notes. Every band was relieved and impressed that they could hear themselves and the others in the band thru the wedges. Side note I've been polling bands on preference of wedges for a few months now, picky singers prefer WH10 and the rest just don't care as long as they can hear themselves. I may build 2 more WH10's.
Then the last band showed up. All digital. No amps or acoustic drums. No Wedgehorns.
They set up a board on stage with there IEM's and gave me a split.
I have never mixed this way before. WOW!!!!! My system came alive. Even after mixing for hours my ears could tell all the cancellations and comb filtering virtually disappeared. I always knew I was fighting stage volume but WOW I had no idea how big the fight could be.
The band was not my cup of tea and sounded gimmicky with the vocal pedals and wierd preamp patchs. I was impressed when the keyboard player hammered out some rolling synth frequencies that gave me goose bumps, a massive drop from 10k to 40Hz clear as day and sat perfect in the mix all the way down.
FOH was run with a remote laptop via SAC on stage. Tops and subs powered by 1 XTI 4000.
Monitor duty 1 XTI 2000 & 1 QSC RMX 1450(overkill).
