The Mixer in a Box

I see that the last post was the end of May. I have been slack in posting to this blog. That does not mean that there have been no outings with my SAC rig.

In June I did two major events using the SAC rig. The first was the Laconia, NH motorcycle rally. This was a eight day event. I did carry the analog board along and it was used for the Bang Camero and Edgar Winter shows. I mixed all the bands between on the SAC rig.

Then it was on to the Harley Rendezvous in New York. That is an old school biker party held annually on a ‘country club’ grounds. It is a two day event with two shows plus several opening bands. The first night was Gator Country with several former members of Molly Hatchet doing primarily Hatchet material. They did not carry a front of house engineer so I was able to do that show with the SAC rig. The second night’s show was the Kentucky Headhunters. I offered the rig to their engineer, but he declined. He did come out to the mix location during the opening act’s show and commented that the rig sounded great.

In August I normally go to Sturgis for the Rally. I lost the contract this year so did not go. I did do a fund raiser in Tallahassee with a band from Daytona using the SAC rig. This worked out well. The organizers of fund raisers never leave space for a mix location. I set the rig up at the side of stage and used a netbook to remote control the show. Look Mom, no wires!!

In October I worked the fall rallies in Myrtle Beach and Daytona using the SAC rig. In Myrtle they were especially pleased that there was no snake to worry about. I did my mixing on the netbook there. In Daytona I ran the snake but it was only used for the FogHat show. I mixed the BlackFoot show on the SAC rig.

I have also done several smaller gigs with the rig and used it for the opening acts on a couple of other shows.

There have been several updates since I bought the software in March/April. Each of the updates adds features. The developer is very responsive to sensible feature requests. Each update makes the software more of a pleasure to use.