Peoria, AZ

Peoria Sports Complex
I cant remember of this is a spring training facility for 2 baseball teams or if it is a minor league park. It does have something to do with baseball. There are 3 ball fields at this complex. The show was a radio station festival. The stage was set up in the deep outfield. I walked the warning track to get back stage. FOH was on or near the pitchers mound. 2 stages side by side with a common FOH area. The rig was 4 stacks of Martin W8L line array with 5 boxes per stack. Ground stacked, not flown. Instead of a common middle stack the PA company chose to put in 2 seperate systems. Our PM managed to allow the local production to bring in our FOH and monitor desks. Having your regular desk at a festival is a life saver. This past summer we did only 1 festival without using our FOH and monitor desks. No soundcheck, no problem. The only thing I have to worry about is the PA. There was so much to worry about in Peoria. I inquired as to why the rig was not flown and was told that there were some hotels behind the home plate area bleachers and that had complained about noise in the past. So instead of really solving the problem they simply provided a crippled sound system. There was nothing that could be done about it so I simply made the most if it. It was in the limiters the whole time. Not how I like to work. Considering how weak the mains were, some delays behind FOH would have been great for those that wanted to hear but not stand in front of the band. Hindsight is allays 20/20.