Jak’s Life 2.0

Yesterday I went to see Projekt Revolution at the Dodge Music Center in Hartford. This year’s tour featured many many great bands (Google Projekt Revolution for details) that I was thrilled to see even though I ended up at the concert by pure luck. Linkin Park is among my favorite bands so as you can tell I was more than unbelievably happy to see them in concert. I must admit I wasn’t too thrilled by the first few bands that played with the exception of Saosin. Then the main stage opened up and the setup that was awaiting us as we entered was amazing. If you don’t know yet I’m an A/V geek that’s learned my way around pro sound and lighting for my high school. The lighting grid amazed me, it must have contained at least 100 Martin Mac 600 lights or something similar, they were absolutely amazing, I’d love to get my hands on just one of them and there we were watching 100 or so of them moving in perfect sync. On top of that for Linkin Park there were the huge what looked like follow spots behind them that were also DMX controlled with color and gobo effects. These lights were the most amazing lights that I’ve ever seen. Now to move away from the lighting the sound equipment that was at this concert was also amazing. There were several massive line arrays (concert stacks) in the front on the stage and right above my seat for the lawn area. I’m not quite sure what I’d do if I had those speakers and the amps to power them, probably shake my house to pieces. The actually speakers and such were not as amazing as the mixer running the speakers and subs. The mixer was significantly larger than a normal stage DMX lighting board, it was actually closer to the size of one that I’d expect to find in a modern recording studio. That was the last thing I was expecting, I could only imagine what the lighting board was like. Well that’s all for now I’ll have more on some of the more interesting special effects as well as what I thought of the concert as a whole.