Audio Engineer/Entertainment Tech
HFEC (Silver Dollar City)
Branson, MO
www.silverdollarcity.com
417.425.5039
turnitupneal@gmail.com
Services: Live theater sound Clients: Four years of Silver Dollar City's Charles Dickens’ A Dickens Christmas Carol, SDC's Circus on Ice, World Fest, Ireland's Feet of Fire, bluegrass and BBQ festivals with top names in Bluegrass.
Quote: “On my most difficult day, I still love this!”
Personal Info: Audio engineer since 1982. At SDC since July 1994, running live sound for bands and production shows with fellow tech crewmembers I call my friends. My favorite type of act to engineer is acoustic bluegrass music. It is so fulfilling to have a group of talented musicians take the stage with nothing but their wooden instruments, awesome talent and microphones to capture that. To hear such excellent music coming from the stage through my console and into the house is a feeling that each engineer needs to experience. I am privileged to engineer shows for Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning groups that give our live audience a performance that they usually only see on TV or hear on the radio.
Hobbies: Sound was my hobby and now it’s my career. I enjoy woodworking, camping with the family, hunting, fishing and computers.
Equipment: Consoles: Yamaha LS9, Yamaha PM3000, Soundcraft LX7ii 32, Soundcraft spirit monitor II 40 ch. Amps: QSC, Crown, Crest, EQs: Ashly, Rane. Speakers: Yamaha, JBL, Klipsch, Ramsa, EAW. Microphones: Rack of 16 Shure UHF-R series wireless with UR1M body packs. Shure Beta 53 headworn microphones, Shure Beta 58, Shure Beta 57, Shure KSM44, AT4050, AKGD112, Shure Beta 98, Shure SM81, Sennheiser MD421II and E604, Snakes/cables: Horizon and Proco. Direct boxes: Whirlwind and Countryman, Computers: MacPro32-8 G5 Pro Tools. PreSonus Digimax, FireStudio, 360 Systems DR-554E Instant Replay.
Don’t leave home without: Briefcase with headphones, white board tape, Sharpie, notepad, cell phone, container of adapters, favorite CD and patience.
