A new space!!

So, I do believe that the time has come! It has been a great two years in Atlantic Place, but I do believe it is time to move on. I am hopefully gonna sign a lease on a new space, and let me tell you, this scares the hell out of me!! It is the slow season, and I have several out of town weddings this month, so I am severely cash strapped, and yes, I am deciding it is time to upgrade!!



So what you are seeing here, are little drawings we did of what will hopefully be the new space.

It is over twice the size of what I currently have, but if you read my post about Hotel California, you would know it is time to grow! So this building will put both my office and a great warehouse in the same place!!



These are pictures of the ware house, and there is lots of office space upstairs for Don't Wonder Post! That's whats exciting right now, I am also in the process of starting up Don't Wonder Post with a great editor, Charles Jones! A great opportunity to bring my love of content creation into my love of live events! Charles Jones is one of the most creative guys I have ever met, he has a passion for editing and is award winning at it, and I feel honored to be working with him and his team. And this is a big part of the reason for a new office space, the two big offices below.


These will be Edit Suites 1 and 2 for Don't Wonder Post! I can't wait to get this more off the ground. We did our first big gig recently for St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. We made them cry!! Charles and I have been doing projects together for several years now so I am excited that he and I are partnering up on this, and just wait, soon we will have RED!!!

Have a good night!

Touring done economically, video style

I was recently contacted by a touring group called Hotel California, they are obviously an Eagles Tribute Band.



These guys are a successful touring band. Are they making millions of dollars? Living the rockstar lifestyle? Nope. What they are doing, is making a living, a good living I hope, but a living. They tour where and when they need to, they do fairs, casinos, concert venues, what ever will pay the bills.

So, these guys love what they do, check them at: www.hotelcal.com, and they are always looking to make their show better for their audience, but they don't have millions of dollars to have high priced video gear. So, that's when my specialty comes in, providing a high quality solution for an affordable price!



So here is our little rack, featuring the HDFrND 9500 gl from Electrosonic, Inc. This is a great machine that is designed for museum installations, not exactly the live event industry, but I have been able to take this great machine and bring it into our world. Being that I also co-own a post production company, we are able to edit and encode the content for this machine on site, so it helps. I have used this machine on over 20 live events, and it has been rock solid!

The 9500 is the middle machine in this rack, the other integral part of this unit is the Violet Audio Decoder, from Violet Audio. This is also a groovy little machine. It basically takes what ever in oudio wise and will put it out XLR. Which for a touring group, this has to be able to put out XLR.

This is the back side of this rack and as you can see, I am trying to keep this as simple as possible. You can see that there is a DVI output, VGA, RGBHV- BNC, and 6 channels of XLR outputs. Nice and simple!! On the left hand side, you can see the connector for the remote! One of the coolest part of this whole rack is the remote.

The band drew out a picture for a remote. They wanted something extremely simple to use, 4 buttons, no muss no fuss. So, to make this work, I talked to the experts!! Mr. Ian Scott from Electrosonic made this bad boy work for me, and for the band. And it is nice and small.

Just to show you the size, this is a standard 1 cup dixy cup!!

Just to finish up about this great project, I had about 9 days to design, build, and deliver this, so my office took a beating! Have a great day and enjoy a great laugh at what we've been cleaning up since Sunday.