T.J. (Todd) Tressler: Live Sound

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The Mix by The Arts Commission in Toledo, OH

I assisted Great Lakes Sound Inc with an event called The Mix by The Arts Commission in Toledo, Ohio. This involved offloading all of the audio and lighting equipment, setting up the truss for the moving lights and speaker array, getting all of the audio components put together, and miking the bands and setting up the stage. I also got the opportunity to mix some of the band's performances live over an iPad via a LAN. Lastly, I helped teardown all of the audio and lighting equipment and loaded it back into the truck.Assisted Great Lakes Sound Inc with an event called The Mix by The Arts Commission in Toledo, Ohio. This involved offloading all of the audio and lighting equipment, setting up the truss for the moving lights and speaker array, getting all of the audio components put together, and miking the bands and setting up the stage. I also got the opportunity to mix some of the band's performances live over an iPad via a LAN. Lastly, I helped teardown all of the audio and lighting equipment and loaded it back into the truck.

An image of the truss that we set up from scratch.

An image of one of the sides of the stage, we had two bands who performed so we set them up on two different sides of the stage.

An image of the other side of the stage.

An image of the CL5 that we used for the concert, although we relied more on using an iPad in the front of house.

An image of the completed stage setup before the performances began.

An image of the iPad that we used CL StageMix on to mix the concerts remotely from the front of house.

An image of the first performance.

An image of the second performance.

Accent on the Arts: Westbound Situation Concert

For the third performance in the 2021-2022 Accent on the Arts concert series, progressive stringband Westbound Situation were the performers. This was my personal favorite concert, as they were a group of some extremely talented individuals! The setup and tear down for the concert was extremely easy as well, since they only used a stereo pair of mics, and no monitors at all. Since they were using mostly the same instruments and the same mics, there wasn't a whole lot of mixing involved, so I got to enjoy the show! Sadly, I was the only student there to assist the concert, but thankfully it was easy, so all I really had to do was introduce the concert again! However, I am no longer in the class, so I didn't get the chance to mixdown the concert afterwards, but I will add the image I took of the concert below. I will link their website within the image, so you can check out their music!

Click above for Westbound Situation's Website!

Denise Grupp-Verbon's 21st Annual Harp Recital

For Portfolio I, we got to select a Creative Noises Live! event to setup and record. For mine, I did Denise Grupp-Verbon's 21st Annual Harp Recital. This involved setting up the Dante system and miking her harp and her husband Michael's Mandolin and sending it to our recording studio. Then, I mixed down the songs from the concert. Sadly, I do not have the rights to share this content.

Accent on the Arts: Mustard's Retreat Concert

For the 2nd performance in the 2021-2022 Accent on the Arts Concert Series, folk duo Mustard's Retreat were the performers. This was another great concert and was a little bit more work as we had to set up two monitors for each of the performers and use a DI that was getting it's signal from a bass amp that one of the performers was using. We also used a 100 foot snake to connect the mics and DI to our digital mixing console that controlled the theatre speakers. This event required active mixing as the performers used different instruments on the same mics throughout. Attendance was much greater for this concert and they even had fans come in all the way from Columbus! We again mixed down the concert so below the images will be links to the different songs they performed.

Barred Owl Waltz (Who Cooks For You)

Hopelessly Midwestern

I'm Gonna Walk It With You

Gentle Arms of Eden

If I Had A Hammer

The Lumberman's Alphabet

Faded Blue and Gold

Shenandoah

The Thimble Island Ghost

Planting Trees

Branching Out

O-H-I-O

Accent on the Arts: Matt Watroba Concert

For the first performance in the 2021 Accent on the Arts Concert Series, folk artist Matt Watroba was the performer. This concert was a great event and it truly opened my mind to the fact that good music is good music, regardless of if it is one of your preferred genres or not. I would've liked to see more attendance but marketing efforts were a bit rushed and we didn't have a whole lot of time to prepare, so the next one should have better attendance. I learned how to set up mics and monitors in a theatre/stage setting and how to mix for a theatre/live sound event. Matt Watroba's wife Kim also accompanied him in later songs that they performed together, so we had a nice surprise guest. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the concert, so I have added an image of them performing at a different venue. After the concert, we mixed down some of the songs that they performed, so I have attached those below the image.