If you are asking whether Pearl Jam owns the PA system they use on tour, I very much doubt it. Bands used to own their own systems, but that hasn't been the case for decades. Most bands now just contract with a PA company to provide the gear for their tours.
...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
If you are asking whether Pearl Jam owns the PA system they use on tour, I very much doubt it. Bands used to own their own systems, but that hasn't been the case for decades. Most bands now just contract with a PA company to provide the gear for their tours.
but they're not the venues speakers, right?
So Pearl Jam doesn't take those speakers from Philly to MSG but instead has a similar setup in MSG? I guess I'll ask google too. haha
The band hires a company to do a tour. So they will take the speakers from venue to venue, and then they go back to the PA company at the end of the tour. While most venues have speaker systems, they are usually configured for things like basketball games, so not appropriate for concerts. That is likely a million-dollar speaker system (each of those boxes is somewhere in the $2k-6k range) and will likely be considered second-tier gear after three to five years on the road, so a sound company has to keep those speakers moving if they want to make money. And a band like PJ, even if they tour a bunch, just can't get that kind of value out of a system.
...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
l've been pretty impressed by the quality of the system technicians that Pearl Jam uses, and their front-of-house mix engineer is really solid. They do a great job of making sure it sounds good everywhere in the room. I've been at shows with terrible sound (I'm looking at you, Foo Fighters 2008) and I really appreciate how much the technicians work on covering these venues, even 360-degree shows where they literally cover audience members in every direction. I'd love to know what system they are travelling with this year; they had an L'Acoustic K1 rig the last time around.
...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
I love this article and have been savoring it. I'm not exactly technically-minded, but I'm following what he is saying, and am enjoying the shit out of it. it's not going over my head, nor is the sound HA!...thank you!
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So Pearl Jam doesn't take those speakers from Philly to MSG but instead has a similar setup in MSG? I guess I'll ask google too. haha
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar06/articles/live_linearrays.htm