Guys,
A friend of mine from PA called me up the other day and asked if I could do sound for a benefit concert he's putting on. Essentially he said it's this small cancer-research-benefit show hosted by a small organization he's made that helps in adolescent cancer awareness.
Knowing him, I was assuming this was going to be cafe gig - church fellowship at best - kinda show, I told him no problem, I'll bring what I can and he can rent a basic PA system.
Well, I get a message from him tonight saying he's got a target audience of 1,000 people and possibly two stages, the second being entirely acoustic. Recording the shows is required too. So in short...I'm freaking out a tad.
I've done FOH for medium-large venues before and I've been sound-tech lacky for a lot of gigs, but I've never done anything of this sort before. Especially since I'm starting off with zero equipment in the house to work with. I've got my own recording studio equipment (mics, stands, laptop, cables, etc.) so I've got some ground to start on but I'll be renting the rest.
Any help of any kind would be incredible. Even it's just a title to a book I should read. Thoughts, ideas, warnings, video walk throughs
D) would be great!
My sincerest thanks to everyone!
-Andrew
A friend of mine from PA called me up the other day and asked if I could do sound for a benefit concert he's putting on. Essentially he said it's this small cancer-research-benefit show hosted by a small organization he's made that helps in adolescent cancer awareness.
Knowing him, I was assuming this was going to be cafe gig - church fellowship at best - kinda show, I told him no problem, I'll bring what I can and he can rent a basic PA system.
Well, I get a message from him tonight saying he's got a target audience of 1,000 people and possibly two stages, the second being entirely acoustic. Recording the shows is required too. So in short...I'm freaking out a tad.
I've done FOH for medium-large venues before and I've been sound-tech lacky for a lot of gigs, but I've never done anything of this sort before. Especially since I'm starting off with zero equipment in the house to work with. I've got my own recording studio equipment (mics, stands, laptop, cables, etc.) so I've got some ground to start on but I'll be renting the rest.
Any help of any kind would be incredible. Even it's just a title to a book I should read. Thoughts, ideas, warnings, video walk throughs

My sincerest thanks to everyone!
-Andrew