ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — The two-day Orion Music + More Festival, staged at Bader Field here recently, drew crowds that exceeded 33,000 per day with music from Metallica and 30 other hard-edged bands. ACIR Professional (Egg Harbor Township, NJ) supplied the new Yamaha CL5 digital console, two Yamaha PM5Ds and 10 Yamaha TX3n amps for monitors for the Damage Inc stage.
FOH engineers for Suicidal Tendencies, Sepultura, The Black Dahlia Murder, Torche, Letlive, Red Fang, Kyng, Landmine Marathon, Black Tusk, and Thy Will Be Done also got the chance to get their questions about the new gear answered by Yamaha and ACIR staff during the festival weekend.
“Having already been familiar with the Yamaha PM5D, the CL was a breeze to use,” said Matthew “Woody” Woods, FOH engineer for The Black Dahlia Murder. “From the layout, navigation, display and touch screen, the CL makes it much easier to adjust your mix.”
“The CL5 was quick in getting my mix where it needed to be, thanks to the user-defined knobs and touch screen capabilities,” added Adam Pike, FOH engineer for Red Fang. “The console was truly put to the test at the festival, where we had to do line checks through headphones. I had no idea what it was going to sound like when we went live through the mains. By the end of the first song, I was already shaping with the Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5043 and 5033 in the Yamaha CL; I felt so spoiled!”
ACIR Professional also provided a Yamaha LS9-32 with eight Yamaha DSR 15 speakers and eight DSR subs for Rob Trujillo, the bass player of Metallica, for use on the Vans stage.
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