Make AV Vegas your Hometown Hero!
Aug 3, 2010 Audio Visual / Corporate Events, Backline Rental, Outdoor Concert Sound, Recent Events, Stage Lighting
AV Vegas has been nominated by Front of House Magazine for the Hometown Hero award. Winners from each region become the finalists for the annual Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero/Regional Sound Company of the year.
If AV Vegas has been your hometown hero, or you think we’re even mildly heroic, please vote for us here.
When you hire us to meet your needs, whether it be just a guitar amp at the last minute, or a Sound and Lighting rig for 20,000 people, we strive to always provide a superior level of service. We appreciate our customers for hiring us to do the job we love to do!
Sincerely,
John Hansen
Founder and CEO, AV Vegas
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AVVegas rocks the Spirit West Coast music festival in Monterrey
Jul 22, 2010 Backline Rental, Outdoor Concert Sound, Recent Events
Independence weekend 2010 was a real blast for us over at AVVegas. We are “The Concert People” and the Spirit West Coast Music Festival is one shining example of a knock out concert. Talk about three action packed days full of bands and dozens of set changes. At times there is a less than a 10 minute window to clear the stage and set the next band, this is just the kind of challenge we love.
Twice a year, AVVegas packs up a massive Vertec 4889 PA, a small army of PM5D consoles, and enough backline to fill a SEMI truck. This massive pile of gear becomes the main stage PA and backline supply for the entire festival, comprising multiple stages, thousands of people, dozens of vendors, and one delectable Funnel Cake stand. Talk about a fun job, hard work yes… but this is the stuff we practice for.
Here are just a few of the photos we snapped between set changes, for your viewing pleasure.
Drummer Playing Hard During Soundcheck
Dual Patchmasters Ensure Quick Changeover
JBL Vertec 4889 Line Array PA System
Newsboys Singer Michael Tait On Stage
JBL Vertec Sidefills
Sanctus Real On Stage at Spirit West Coast
L Acoustics 115XT HiQ Monitor Wedges On Stage at SWC
Shure UHF-R Wireless On Stage
Spirit West Coast Crowd Shot
Shure UR2 Handheld Wireless Microphones Locked On Target
The Orange County Supertones SKA Band Rocks On Stage At SWC
Patchmaster Will
The Orange County Supertones Using Shure Wireless
Monitor Engineer Goya
David Eaves Goya Phil Morgan Serious At Work
David Eaves Phil Morgan Having A Laugh
AVVegas Crew Deep in Thought
AVVegas CEO John Hansen and SWC Stage Manager David Eaves
Tags: backline, concert sound, music festival, Shure, Spirit West Coast, SWC, Vertec
Our favorite find at InfoComm 2010… SM-4neo – The perfect powered speaker!
Jun 28, 2010 Audio Visual / Corporate Events, Latest Gear, Outdoor Concert Sound, Recent Events
InfoComm 2010 was a great experience, and… conveniently… only a 10 minute drive away from AVVegas HQ. So it’s no surprise that we spent a good deal of time there, browsing the plushly carpeted aisles looking for cool new gear that we can offer to our clients. There were so many great new products being offered, but we wanted to mention just a few that we either already purchased or are going to purchase in the not too distant future.
First off, if you haven’t heard of this oddly named company, you should check out Projection Screens by AV Stumpfl. Their rigid, perfectly square, unwavering structure make them rock solid installations, and the selectable aspect ratio is a big plus.
We also ran into our friends at SLS, who make those sweet sounding 8695 line array boxes that we love so much, turns out… they went ahead the built amps right into the box, giving us the new SLS 8695 series Self Powered Line Array (PLS8695V2).
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Of course, LED’s were everywhere in the Lighting partition of the show floor, which come as no surprise to AVVegas, who has been talking about our 3 watt LED wash lights for quite some time. Our LED’s are still brighter than anything we saw being showcased at InfoComm. We did find a prototype display of the soon to be released Martin Mac 350 LED Moving Light, which was real cool to see in action!
In the end, there was just one product that was so new, so cool, so innovative, and so “it’s about time” necessary, that we just couldn’t help ourselves, we bought this little gem right out of the booth, taking the demo units straight home to our shop. I’m talking about the Sound Projections SM-4neo Portable PA system. This big little system is a 2 speaker self powered PA, with batteries that go for hours, a built in mixer, CD player, and usb port for mp3 audio. It’s even got built in ducking (the music fades when you talk into the mic). Oh yea… did I almost forget the best part… two built in Shure 90 channel wireless receivers for wireless handhelds or belt packs.
This past weekend I used the SM-4 system for the first time in the field, for a Grand Opening ceremony at a retail outlet. First… there was no power outside the building… so I did the ribbon cutting ceremony completely on batteries! Then I played music on my laptop, which was patched into the stereo inputs on the back of the main speaker. Later when our local 93.1 “The Party” radio station stopped by to do an on-the-air promo, I patched their radio rack right into the SM-4 and saved them even having to pull their PA out of the truck.
The whole gig consisted of two SM-4 speakers (master and slave), stands, an AC cord (that I didn’t need), a laptop, and a couple xlr’s to patch the radio station. This all fit easily into the back of my SUV, leaving our trucks behind, watching me longingly as I drove away, wishing they could come along, but knowing that… at least for this kind of small job, I didn’t need them any more.
Tags: InfoComm, InfoComm 2010, LED Light, Mac 350, SLS Line Array, SM-4, SM-4neo, Small PA, Sound Machine, Sound Projections, Speakers on a Stick, Stumpfl
New Years 2009… what a week!
Jan 13, 2010 Latest Gear, Outdoor Concert Sound, Recent Events, Stage Lighting
On an average day the AVVegas crew is busy working shows all over town, but there are some weeks that just stand out, and this New Years was one of them. With our massive equipment inventory spread across more than 20 different venues, we had quite a lot to keep up with. So as we take a moment to recap the holiday weeks I want to congratulate all the AVVegas professionals and our clients for one extremely successful new year.
One of our favorite parties on December 31st takes place on the Brooklyn Bridge, the one at the New York New York Hotel & Casino that is. Every year the bridge gets closed down for the week leading up to the big night so we can transform it into a massive outdoor party zone, with hundreds of lights and enough sound to awe the crowd out on Las Vegas Blvd.
There is a new technology that has been growing rapidly in both quality and demand, and AVVegas is proud to be on the cutting edge. LED Lights have been available for nearly 4 years, but only recently has the technology exploded into the mainstream. In preparation for this New Years we bought a boat load of brand new LED based Par Cans, several hundred to keep up with demand. These new lights are bright enough to rival their conventional counterparts, but you can run 10 of them on a single electrical outlet! The light you see in these pictures is from either our LED Pars, or our MAC2000 moving lights, no par cans in sight!
See you next year!
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Tags: bridge bash, brooklyn bridge, LED, led par, led stage lighting, new years, new york new york
City of Lights Jazz & Rhythm and Blues Festival
Jun 13, 2009 Outdoor Concert Sound
For years, The City of Lights Jazz & Rhythm and Blues Festival has been a wonderful event here in Las Vegas. This year AV Vegas was awarded the contract to provide the sound and backline. 
Sadly, the event was the last concert for legendary performer, Wayman Tisdale. He rocked the croud with his performance and died two weeks later. He was an incredible performer and will be missed.
We used eight boxes of SLS RLA2 line array cabinets for the PA with our JBL Dual 18″ Vertec subs, of course and outfills to cover the areas on the sides as the venue is sort of in the round.
We provided a Yamaha PM5d for both FOH and Monitor world, that way it is easy to changover from one band to the next.
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AV Vegas at Spirit West Coast Christian Music Festival
Jun 6, 2009 Outdoor Concert Sound, Recent Events
AV Vegas, provided PA System for Concert Sound, Backline and Production Labor for Spirit West Coast Christian Music Festival in Del Mar, Ca. May 2009.
AV Vegas has provided Sound, Stage Lighting, Backline and Video for Spirit West Coast since 2000. In 2008 they awarded us the Main Stage and we have been doing it ever since.
Matt Elliott in the foreground, our newest engineer, mixing “Barlow Girl” on the Yamaha PM5d, while a traveling engineer loads the second PM5d console for tonight’s h
eadliner band.
The view of a line of L Acoustics 115xt Hi Q Monitor Wedges. They are extremely expensive speakers, but they are perceived by many to be the finest wedges in the world. The bands love them because they sound great. The engineers love them because they are stable and not prone to feedback. We love them because we can brag that we have the same boxes as the mega companies, for what that is worth.
There are a thousand cables on a concert stage and every one has to be patched correctly. Will Leininger, my lifelong friend swaps the trunklines of our two Whirlwind Main Snakes for the next act. Since 1993, Will has built our stage monitor system, wired our main PA Sound System, engineered and patched at our larger events. When he is not assisting AV Vegas on our shows, he runs his own home theater install business in Las Vegas, Called L&T Design 702 242-5462. 
You can hardly see him in the photo, but I assure you, he is there. If the stage is rockin’ and the musicians are happy and everything is working as it should, then you can bet that Goya is at the helm. Goya is the head of the audio department for AV Vegas. He was happily on the road with Jeffrey Osborne until he fell in love with a beautiful girl in Vegas. The rest is history.
A couple of the headliners wanted to mix on our Yamaha M7cl Monitor Console. It is a good choice because it is easy to use, even for an older analog engineer. AV Vegas has two M7cl consoles in stock.
Big heavy amp racks to power our JBL Vertec 4889 Line Array Speaker System. More watts than Obama has taxpayer dollars.
Truly one of the highlights of the event, and my favorite photo. This is Toby Mac’s Front of house engineer. He played the console like it was an instrument. He was having a lot of fun mixing Toby, who is a high energy Christian Rapper and Dancer. Jumbotrons in the distance.
AV Vegas will be providing sound, lighting, backline and video at the upcoming concert in Monterrey, Ca. Visit Spirit West Coast.
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