Moderator: Welcome to this evening's chat session with Tim Lawrence.

Tim Lawrence: Good evening, all.

Moderator: Tim, you got started at Tycobrahe in SoCal in the late 60s... how did that come about?

Tim: I actually started setting up gear for local bands around the South Bay area, doing high schools and parties.

Moderator: Was this pre-college?

Tim: Oh, yeah, this was way before college, back in the days of Bogen amps and Shure vocal columns.

Doug Fowler: So you've been using line arrays since day one ;-)

Doug Fowler: What equipment was Tycobrahe using "back in the day", and who else was working there?

Tim: Shubert of Shubert systems , Bruce Johnson, and If I remember correctly, Tony Marra.

Doug Fowler: Who was the competition?

Tim: There was Bobby Heil, who actually was the biggest at that time, but you also had some companies on the East Coast. Jerry Cameron of Cameron Sound of Florida, and a few other good ones.

Moderator: Tim's chatting with us from Baltimore tonight, by the way. He's got an Usher show there tomorrow night

Doug Fowler: At what point did Tycobrahe start building proprietary boxes (if they did at all), and what were they like?

Tim: The boxes started coming off the line around 1968, I believe, and consisted of two JBL, a pair of E120, and two 2404 bullets.

Tucci: Break down your lengthy time in show biz for us. What were the time periods? When did you finally start makin money. When did you get it, etc.

Tim: Not until the early to mid 70's with some Florida bands, and then I and then went on to some Georgia based bands.

HaJo: Hi, I'm a young live sound engineer and I'm looking to best advance my career. What do you think are the most important steps and maybe courses to take?

Tim: GREAT QUESTION!! Learn your “freq’s,” and listen to albums and try to duplicate what the producer and studio engineer are doing.

Moderator: You have college degrees in audio-related fields. Did/do you find this helpful?

Tim: Yes !! Very much so these days - the advances the audio world has made in the last few years are scary.

HaJo: How about acoustics? I just want to guarantee that I don't get to learn from an acoustic guru.

Tim: From my outlook, there's no other way to learn acoustics except to get out there and try. A good basic knowledge of electronics is all important, but not the final answer.

magic_jimmy: Tim, I was just awhile ago reading up on the EAW line arrays. Do you prefer them over V-DOSC and if so, why?

Tim: Yes, I do prefer them over any other line arrays. EAW has always had a certain tone that works for my style of mixing, and of course, the brute force with which they project counts as well.

Mike B: What have you found to be the pro's and con's of the 760 system?

Tim: The 760 and 761 array system is so new that I haven't seen or found any quirks, but give me time - I'll keep looking.