The Sound Couple-Venue's Go-Round

The Sound Couple returns to a long lost venue that they have not been to for years but have supported many events over a period of 20 years. Even though the room has its cavernous acoustic character, there is so much to enjoy about this venue compared to others...especially in a downtown location.

This is the first time in with the CDL cabinets, so we have some learning to do as to what configuration will work best.....

This video is full of bits and pieces of tips and follies....hope you enjoy!

The Sound Couple's Monitor Naming convention:

Monitor Wedges:

Key: M
Example: M-Dave
This means Dave is getting a monitor wedge
“MP” would mean Dave is providing his own wedge (more common with keyboard players).

In-ear systems:

Sound Couple Provided Wireless
Key: E-Jen-W1
Jen is using in-ears using our wireless 1 unit.

Sound Couple Provided wired
Key: E-Billy-X
Sound Couple is providing Billy a wired in-ear unit (“X” stands for “XLR”)

Musician Provided
Key: E-Suzy-WP
“WP” stands for “Wireless Provided” so Suzy is providing her unit to us.

Key: E-Mikey-XP
“XP” stands for “XLR Provided” so Mikey is providing us a wired in-ear unit.

The other thing we do is run our monitor assignments to the same order of the channels. For example, if drums are first in the channel list, , the drummer would get “mix 1”. If the bass player was next, they would be assigned “mix 2”, etc. This way, we can more quickly identify which mix a musician is just by the channel order.

Microphone rubber disk washers:
https://www.parts-express.com/K-M-Rub...

Amazon phone charging cables:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

The Sound Couple primarily use PreSonus gear featuring:
PreSonus UC Surface
PreSonus CDL12
PreSonus CDL18s
PreSonus 32R
PreSonus SW5E
PreSonus NSB Stageboxes
PreSonus AVB-D16

Please see our "About" for a more comprehensive list of gear we use.