I'm on top of the world!

99th floor of the Sears Tower, baby! Second time there and damn! if the speakers don't pick up radio stations. I mean, they pick up radio stations - like you wouldn't believe! The speakers just need to be powered up, no link to the decks necessary, although it helps. Hafeez was assisting me on this gig (by the way Hafeez, I want a copy of that fella you were playing), and we were trying to trouble shoot this problem. Speakers close to the floor helped, but it also depended on where the speaker was placed, how long the cords were, and where the cords were run. I was getting so frustrated with other things to worry about, that I handed this problem over to Hafeez and he took care of it. It was faster for him to handle it than to have two heads working on it. I then worked on coordinating the awards ceremony. Oh yeah, this gig was for Carmel and On the Scene. The end client was Kraft International. It was dinner and a conference with awards mixed in. A seperate company came in to do sound reinforcement and visuals for the ceremony and conference. Not sure why they didn't handle this part of it, but we did music cues during the awards show. We put it through their system, but didn't test it ahead of time. We ran into a few problems during the show, but it got worked out. Not sure what it was or how it was fixed. Mike, the guy I was working with, kept pushing buttons and turning knobs. It's one of those big 50 channel mixers (exagerating a little) with all sorts of knobs and doohickeys that I have no clue what they do (being a sound guy, I should know, right?). Anyhoo, we got the sound problems worked out and the rest of the awards went fine. It wasn't that big a deal, show went on and everything and it's only a 5 second clip while people were going to the podium. But it's still important and would have added to the event. We played background music as people arrived (upbeat, victory themed songs) and during dinner (international and electronic lounge). No dancing, but it was almost all guys. Great view from up there. I could almost see my house.

--Jonathan