Rice & Peas Sound Check 28th Nov 10

AV PROMOTIONS

PRESENTS

RICE & PEAS SOUND CHECK

ON SUN 28th/Nov/10

@

ROYAL HALL BLIT MANSION 4/16

DEPTFORD BRIDGE RD SE8 4HH

SOUNDS BY

 

SIR MARCUS/RAPTURE STREET SOUND

&

  CHIN HI POWER

 

4PM/10PM ENTRY £2 donation  

GOOD BEHAVIOUR

NO SMOKING

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DONT FORGET XMAS SOUND CHECK

ON SUN 19TH DEC

Edited by Vibration - 19 November 2010 at 5:23pm

Yes Tek,the new Ligwa Eco Full scoop will be on display at this sound check im not sure about it being heard? as i dont think any of the sounds on the night will be useing them who knows?

Vibration wrote: SIR MARCUS

Edited by Tekasis - 27 November 2010 at 5:13pm

This event is where all soundsystem fans should attend!! It's all about the sound system equipment & the way the sound man uses it!! The building is a solid concrete rendered building, so it sucks the living daylights out of a soundsystem!! (no matter how good it is) But those who know how to produce a great sound from their equipment will master the venue!! Remember this event is full of all types of sound men, that's why the vibes is wicked!!! I'm always in attendance, again big up AV Promotion for keeping the soundsystem business kicking!!!

I have just come back from the sound check. First and foremost big respect to all the three sound who played on the night.

As I entered Rapture sound were playing: they had 4 bass bins and they had 4 double midrange boxes with horns in them and another 3 midrange boxes with another 2 sets of horns. I couldnt see the make of them. In total they had 13 x 15inchs for midrange. The set sounded too loud and lacked clarity. They were using a laptop with serato which seemed to be sending a distorted signal to their mixer and then it went downhill from there. They were using the old peavey 2000 amps from what I could see. All in all the set sounded medioka and lacked quality and for the amount of midrange they had in the building sould have sounded alot better.

Now if you think that sounds like alot of equipment wait until you hear what Chin Hi Power were using..

First and foremost they had 3 x at least 24 until amp cases fulled to the brim with 2 of them filled with Peavey amps and C audio amps. Looked extremely impressive and their boxes also looked imporessive, Looked like they were getting ready to play in Wembly arena! They were using 4 scoop bins with another 4 midrange boxes. Each midrange box consisted of a 15 inch, 12inch, a folded horn and 4 bullet tweeters. On top of that they had another 32 tweeters (4 boxes of 8 tweeters). So in total they had 48 tweeters, 4 horns, 8 midranges and 4 bins. There noise box sounded extremely loud and very clear but that was the only thing that sounded good. Their mic section was poor and sounded flat like it needed to be eq'd. There bass was weak and it sounded like they just needed to tune up their set.

Marcus hi power had the least equipment but in my opinion was exactly right for the size of the hall. The set up was basic but worked. They had 4 scoop bins, 2 x 15 inch wide flare mid range boxes and another 2 x 12inch flared mids with 8 tweeters. By far they sounded the cleanest o all the 3 sounds and had by far much less equipment. Their bass was solid and midrange was good but needed better tweeters (looked like they were using piezos)

In my opinion they sounded the best by far and although sound check is not about music, they also played the best music and were consistent in each round.

However to put this into context, although Marcus Hi Power by far sounded the best, all 3 sounds who played the previous month at soundcheck would all have sounded better (Qualitex, Vibes Squad and Entity). I think the promoters are clearly trying to put sounds who are of a similar quality in each round of soundcheck.

Big respec to AV promotions, cant wait for the xmas edition which I hear the line up is good!

i also agree on the above