So there you have it... Coldplay giving their all in good ol' Indianapolis, Indiana.

 Not that is that old of a topic, but, had to bring this up after just seeing U2 and Muse @ Giant Stadium.  The stage, and sound system is unbelievable.  Tremedous amounts of bass.  Found this link which gives some details of the system.

http://clairglobal.com/u2/

 Massive indeed.

Some awesome pictures in this thread, I will try to take some good pictures when I go to see Collective Soul again in the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium on October 11th.

TBCA site: http://www.tbca.com/

 I saw Collective Soul here many years ago, and they rocked the house something fierce, looking forward to it again.

 WOW, check this from the U2/Clair site

"Monitor duties for U2 360° are shared between Dave Skaff, Niall Slevin and Alistair McMillan. Both Slevin and McMillan mix on DiGiCo SD7s, with one assigned to Bono and another for The Edge. Skaff mans a Digidesign D-Show Pro for bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and an offstage keyboard player, Terry Lawless. With the virtually subterranean location of “monitor underworld,” the three have no direct sight lines with the band, and work off video monitors. "

 Here's a shot of the left side of the stage, I was told that Collective Soul wasn't touring with their own rig, they were using most of the house system with some of their own stuff. 

 In any case, 6 Meyer Sound trap boxes clustered and flown over 6 double 18" bins per side, and this is in a 1500 seat venue. Needless to say, there is never really an issue of not generating enough output for any seat in the house.

 A shot of the right side of the auditorium with the roof, 2nd and 3rd row balconies in the picture. 

 As close as I could get before being asked to go back to my seat by the staff... the security there is pretty brutal... they won't let you near the stage if you aren't seated in those seats. 

Needless to say at this distance from the subs... my shirt was flapping in the breeze. 

 More shots of the lighting... some of the strobe effects were like staring into the sun... 

 I really need a better camera for this... 3 year old point n' shoot Canon isn't cutting it, but has taken probably 10,000 pictures in that time. 

 Last one for today...

michael hurd:

Just for Professor Thump.... take a look at what the bassist has for cabs... looks like a pair of 4 x 10 or 4 x 12 cabs.

Thanks Michael... Nice pictures! 

It looks like there are dual cabs with 8 x 10" or 12".   I bet you get a lot of snap off of all of those motors.

Professor Thump:

michael hurd:

Just for Professor Thump.... take a look at what the bassist has for cabs... looks like a pair of 4 x 10 or 4 x 12 cabs.

 

Thanks Michael... Nice pictures! 

It looks like there are dual cabs with 8 x 10" or 12".   I bet you get a lot of snap off of all of those motors.

The Eminence Basslite CA2010 drivers are amazing:
http://www.eminence.com/bassguitar_speaker_detail.asp?model=bassliteca2010&speaker_size=10&SUB_CAT_ID=5

In the right cabinet you can get both low end growl and sharp snappy mids/highs. The only downside is you won't get that much SPL from them...I can see what he's running with sixteen drivers lol.

Btw, if you're looking for a real cheap bass guitar amp, an XTi 1000 works real well with its built-in subharmonic synthesizer and really hammering on the compressor.

I suppose to keep things on topic I should post a pic of a big sound system...

Here's a shot from the mix position from the annual Chicago Caribbean Music Festival that I mixed FOH for a couple months ago. We were running 8x MTH-1 per side for the MF/HF and 4x MTL-1 per side for LF. In the middle was 4x MTL-4 for mono LF. Amplifiers were Yorkville AP series. FOH mixer was a Yamaha PM5D and I believe the monitor mix was done on a Yamaha M7CL. The crappy rainbow speakers on the sides were from King Tubbis Sound...I can't even begin to describe how crappy/obnoxious that system was. Here's a link to his website to get a feel for their "good" sound....http://www.kingtubbis.com/ (the guy would literally run around with a ladder and screwdriver putting his head into every speaker while it was playing at full tilt to find out what drivers were blown and he would just swap them all day long...driver after driver would blow and he'd just keep on replacing them).

Anyways, here's the setup: