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Dave
Rat, everybody!
Please welcome - DAVE RAT!
Dave Rat is not known to the concertgoers who enjoy his mixes
for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The kids who bought tickets to
see Rage Against The Machine neither knew nor cared that Rat
Sound supplied the system that brought those jams to them
loud and clear. Beck fans, Cake fans, Sonic Youth slackers, Ben
Harper's legions, what do they care?
But the FOH and monitor mixers and the tour managers care. With
his partners Brian Benjamin, Tommy Dubielak, Karrie Keyes and
Jon Monson, Rat Sound spent many years establishing a reputation
for reliable rigs that thundered and shouted and brought it back
to the players like few others.
Dave himself has graciously consented to share some tips from
time to time with PSW visitors, and we are calling this "Transmissions
From Dave Rat." Because they will occur whether he is jetting
to Las Vegas to mix the Bangles, or chasing new visions of house
and monitor boxes at his
sunny warehouse near the California Coast.
What
makes Señor Raton all the more exceptional is the fact
that he does not need to feel large by sneering at those of us
who are several levels behind him in terms of electronic and acoustics
knowledge and theory. Dave is an excellent teacher and we are
lucky to have him.
- Chris Kathman
