First And Foremost: A Word About Stage Volume

“If it sucks and you turn it up, it just sucks louder.”

The Blue Light Live has been hosting some of the finest musical acts in America for ten years, with an emphasis on original Texas music.  In ten years of listening, we can tell you unequivocally that the single best thing you can do to ensure a good sounding show is to manage your stage volume.

It never fails: the bands rolling in half-stacks and refrigerator-sized bass cabs almost never sound as good as the bands who carry in their lightweight amps.  Why is this?  Stage volume.

We hire live sound engineers from South Plains College, one of the nation’s premiere live sound programs.  Students of this program are trained to properly structure gain, eq, compression, reverb, delay, and volume to achieve the best possible live mix for the room.

When bands roll in with thirty thousand watts of pants-shittingly loud gear cranked up to 10, it undermines the engineer’s ability to correctly mix for the room.  The result?

Your show will be too loud to be enjoyable.

Remember: the right note at the wrong volume is the wrong note. We pride ourselves on sounding good, not sounding loud.  We hope you’ll do the same.

Backline

The Blue Light Live currently does not provide a backline.
Opening bands: it is your responsibility to make backline arrangements with the headliner, not ours. We can facilitate communication between you and the headliner if you do not already have a working relationship with them.

Stage

24′ x 10′  w/ 6′ x 2′ downstage extension
8x grounded plugs upstage, 3x downstage
Analog Snake

Support

Plenty of short stands and boom stands to go around.  If you prefer your own, bring them.

Vocal Microphones

Shure Beta 58′s
Shure SM 58
SM 57′s

Instrument Microphones

Audix i5
Audix D6
Audix D2
Audix F10
Sennheiser e609

FOH

Consoles: Midas & Allen & Heath consoles are in house
Mains: EV series speakers
Subs: EV series subwoofers

All power provided by QSC Audio.

FX

EQ: 6x 31 Band DBX (4X monitors, 2x mains)
Reverb/Delay: 1X Yamaha REV100
Compression: 6x DBX 185 Compressor/Gates

Signal Processors: DBX 240/TC Electronics M-ONE

Monitors

3 mixes downstage and 1 upstage with drum sub
(8) 15” Yamaha Floor Wedges (2x per mix) powered by (4) QSC PLX1204

Recording:

Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe
2X Presonus Digimax FS Preamp
Logic Studio

Video:

Full complement of Canon HD Cameras.  Shoots range in complexity from single wall-mounted camera to multiple angles.  Videos produced for Blue Light podcast available at no cost to artists.  Acoustic videos produced off-site.  Contact Charlie Stout at Sixgun Studios to arrange video production.