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Guys like me have no shame – I spotted that Ethernet
cable peeping up from a center of a table at the Meyer booth
and immediately asked Mark Johnson, their PR manager, if I
could hook my laptop up to their high-speed connection. Other
Macintosh owners were firing up their Airport cards, and looking
for networks that were not password protected.
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Mark Johnson of Meyer with MILO
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I walked around the new
self-powered MILO box, which has two 12” drivers,
as opposed to the M3D’s 15’s, and Johnson
showed me how it can be rigged from M3D subs, “if
you want the directional low frequency.” MILO
and the other smaller Meyer line array cabinets do not
have the rearward-firing caridioid speakers as seen
in the M3D tops and subs. There is also integrative
rigging on MILO that allows a slightly smaller M2D to
be attached underneath for downfill.
Meyer is known for their long involvement with the Montreux
Jazz Festival, which has a broad booking policy that
even includes techno D.J.’s, nowadays. In one
of the halls, the festival needed low-profile subs,
to provide a clear shot at the stage for video cameras,
and to lessen low-end bleed onto the stage. The introduction
of the M3D sub sent the energy into the room, even with
the boxes placed under the stage, without causing resonance
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Dave Lawler, consultant extraordinaire, was present, and we
talked about some gigs he has recently been doing with Diane
Krall. Unusually for a platinum artist, the band does not
carry a monitor mixer, and Lawler runs foldback mixes from
his FOH board. The local provider is instructed to set it
up so that the faders on the right hand half of the board
mirror Lawler's list on the left, and he drives the wedge
mixes from the right side, able to use those channel EQ’s
freely, since they do not affect his house mix.
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