picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 As darkness drew closer, lighting was brought onto the stage and we enjoyed the Arkansas sunset.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael hurd Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 We arrived just before the dinner hour and within 30 mintes the place was packed, included six of Hope's finest (local police). If they eat here, it's gotta be good! You've gotta love the corrigated steel decor! LOL You know when it's good... it's also well protected!!! Shot of the parking lot: [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Here's an after dark view of the racks that house all of the stage amplification, crossovers and power conditioners. This stage was well-endowed with high-capacity power buss, which is something so many other venues overlook. Between amps and lighting, live shows consumer an enormous amount of power... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Another shot showing the back of the left channel stack... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Stage Left... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Stage Center... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Stage Right. Monitors are Klipsch and Behringer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 The crew temporarily turned the left channel around to face the stage so we could listen to some tunes while they tweaked the PA... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Steve Phillips brought in some enormous fans to cool the equipment and us and help keep the skeeters away. It was about 90 degrees and 85% humidity after dark... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 FRIDAY NIGHT MIXER (sort of): Originally the mixer was going to be at Fair Park in the Boy Scout Building because it was air conditioned. But the acoustics in that ciderblock and concrete building were so live that nothing short of a miracle could have made the sound good in there. So, we retired back to the hotle and a couple of members had open houses in their rooms, namely seti, kaiser SET say and Seadog.... In seti's room he had kaiser SET say's nice pair of Industrial LaScala's set up and run by ssh's pair of 7 watt, JFL2A3s tube monoblocks and a Peach. The system looked and sounded beautiful.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 The hotel was almost the Audiokarma Fest all over again: Here are ssh's JFL2A3 monoblocks that powered kaiser's LaScala's and ssh's Juicy Music Peach pre-amp. I regret not getting photos in Seadog's room, because it was wall-to-wall people when I visited, but he had his beautiful vintage Cornawalls and Heresy center set up with his trusty H.H. Scott providing the power. He posted photos of his setup in an earlier post to this thread back on page 21 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 SATURDAY MORNING: Ya gotta love that free continental breakfast-thing most hotels offer now. We took advantage of ours every morning and it gave me a place to drink coffee and blog to this thread, thanks to the Holiday Inn Express for that and for their free WiFi service. Verna and I went out on our own Saturday morning, hoping to see the Klipsch Museum in town that PWK's widow, Miss Valerie runs. It's in one of the two old train depots downtown next to the tracks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 THE PAUL W. KLIPSH MUSEUM: Unforntunately, when we arrived, the place was deserted and there were no hours of operation posted anywhere.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 In the back of the building is a PWK Memroial garden which houses this monument to the Genius of PWK. What a fitting tribute to a great man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 The back of the building adjacent the garden.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 PWK's parking space is forever reserved... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 The signage along the side of the building.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Another sign... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 A crossing gate near the front entrance.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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