A collection of events from the past few months to show what we do. For more information please email us and we'll be happy to get in touch.
Graham Kendrick at Canterbury Cathedral
Warnersound were asked by Canterbury Cathedral to provide a sound system for an event celebrating discipleship within the Diocese for up to 1000 guests in the Nave. Graham Kendrick led the worship with Raul D'Oliveira on Percussion, Simon Dennis on Bass and Tom Nicholls on Keys, a band picked to give the best orchestration for the venue.
Dave Warner designed a system that would sound even throughout the entire Cathedral Nave. 20 d&B Speakers were carefully positioned to give the most direct sound for both the speech and music to be clear all the way down the seating. This worked so well that Dave received many compliments after the event from guests.
LCGC at John Lewis - Westfield, Stratford
Warnersound provided a full PA system for the opening of the John Lewis store in Stratford. The spec required a very neat system that would not look out of place in a brand new store, but would still be able to project across an open area and up onto three floors to give an enjoyable ambience of the gospel choir across the whole store.
Jamie Cullum
Dave Warner engineers for Jamie Cullum at sell out concert for the Vortex.
Dave engineered a sell out concert for Jamie Cullum and special guests at the Winter Gardens in Margate on behalf of Southby. The event featured two grand pianos on stage, a double bass and a drum kit. The talented musicians took it in turns to play the instruments, with various special guest pianists playing for Jamie. Dave engineered Front of House, and James Southby engineered monitors.
The biggest challenge was to keep the exceptionally dynamic sounds from the two grand pianos balanced and in context in the large auditorium, made harder with the placement of the pianos being in line with the PA.
The end result was a brilliant night had by the audience and the engineers. The energy of the artists was transferred to the audience with many good comments being received on the event and on blogs afterward.
David Fellingham 55 Year Extravaganza
CCK in Brighton were host to David Fellingham's 55 year music extravaganza in December, featuring over 130 musicians... to mix and make this event happen Warnersound were brought on board by the main man himself.
The musicians were an 80 piece choir, a 32 piece string orchestra, a salvation army brass band, a 13 piece big band and Phatfish as rhythm with Mark Edwards on Keys. The bands played together for the finale and for the majority of the second half played as a whole bar the brass band.
The event was a huge success with Dave achieving "the best sound we've ever had" at the venue, especially with the choir balance to the rest of the musicians. A DVD is to be published of the event, with Neal Costello mixing down the tracks.
As well as engineering the 56 channels of mics, Warnersound also provided choir mics, solo vocal mics, DI boxes and additional monitoring for the lead vocals and choir. The d&B E3s used for the choir were able to be flown, drastically reducing the spill into the choir mics to achieve an even purer sound, as well as keeping the sight lines clear.
Phatfish and Lou Fellingham "Light" UK Tour
Dave was invited to continue engineering the sound of Phatfish and Lou for their Autumn tour across the UK. This was a 10 date tour spanning from Bournemouth to Hastings to Leyland.
Each venue posed it's own unique challenges, from acoustically large venues, to small tight sounding venues with angled and reflective ceilings above the stage. Fortunately for Dave he spec'd a d&B E9 rig with Q Sub to give a tight sound and options to integrate into a system, or run as a stand alone PA. Each venue had a large age range from kids to more mature fans. The set list allowing for this with a great selection of songs, including Acoustic numbers, Rock sounds, and more gentle singer song writer style songs.
Lighting was provided by Sam Tamplin of TSL (the bands long standing LD), featuring a flexible rig of moving lights, strobes and LED strips.
Education Conferences - Catch-Up
Warnersound has been providing technical support and equipment for an Education conference in both London and Cardiff.
The "Overcoming disadvantages for Struggling Learners" conference explained to education authorities and schools new research findings and schemes for struggling learners, including research into dyslexia as well as how new catch up schemes can help improve reading ages dramatically.
The conference was ran by Catch-Up, a non profit making charity aiming to use early intervention to reduce future difficulties in children through on going support. Julie Lawes who booked Warnersound says of the service offered:
"Really impressed with Warner Sound. People at the Catch Up conferences commented on the high quality of the sound. It was most appreciated that it was all stress free our end! Dave thought of everything and for a reasonable price too! Would definitely use the company again"
Julie Lawes Catch Up director www.catchup.org.uk
Warnersound used it's new d&B stock to provide crisp audio in the room, each presenter sounding natural and intelligible so much so Dave was thanked several times by members of the audience.
The Rash
Dave Warner recorded an album for this Ashbourne based acoustic funk band for sale at their concerts.
The recording used Warnersound's portable recording solution - a Motu Traveller and Focusrite interface and sound card to allow audio to be processed into Logic via Firewire. This was then mixed using the onboard effects and dynamics within Logic before being mastered in house and pressed onto CD for release. Since being released it has received local radio time as well as being an invite for the band onto the local radio shows.
The band members are John Steele, Bobby Eccles, John Dell and Nathan Harrison, playing Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Bass, Percussion and four part harmony vocals.
Samples to follow...
Revive! 2010 - Ichthus Christian Fellowship
Warnersound were this year asked to provide technical support for the three larger venues at Revive held at Ashburnham house. These venues included the Main marquee, the Youth Jesus Generation marquee and the Childrens venue.
Each venue required a suitable Audio and Video system which could project evenly across the marquees without hot spots or areas that lacked clarity.
In the main venue carefully placed d&B speakers were used to give power without the need for more boxes, and a dispersion that could cover a large floor area without scaring the audience. Good quality mics were used throughout to give an audio experience that sounded more hi-fi than might be expected in a marquee worship context. These mics included the Neumann KMS 105 which enhanced the lead vocal voice presenting it well in the worship.
The band were looked after with ten mixes of monitors for the 14 musicians, including string players and percussion, and these were controllable on stage during sound check via a wireless link into the desk, allowing fine adjustment of mixes without the desperate need for a monitor engineer.
Graham Kendrick's Acoustic Gospels Tour 2010
Graham Kendrick's Acoustic Gospels Tour - May 2010
Says Graham's diary section on his website:
"The acoustics were amazingly good for such an old building, and the band are very grateful to Dave Warner, sound engineer, who has set up such an excellent technical rig. We wish Dave all the very best as he now leaves the tour to get married in just a few days time. A great team player, and willing to tackle any aural challenge with a constructive and positive approach..."
Warnersound have supplied technical services for Graham Kendrick's Acoustic Gospels tour across the UK. Kit was supplied where needed ensuring the standard of the tour remained high. Graham toured with two other musicians, Terl Bryant and Simon Dennis. Whilst away on honeymoon Dave used Pete Lozinski to continue the engineering.
Kit for the tour included a d&B FOH and Monitor rig, Yamaha desk and both Shure and SE Electronic microphones.
Two tripods loaded with fresnels and profiles were used to keep a theatre level of lighting.
Sevenoaks Opening Ceremony
Sevenoaks School Opening Ceremony - April 2010
Warnersound provided technical support, recording and microphones for the opening ceremony of the new concert hall at Sevenoaks school.
This ceremony was attended by parents and sponsors to celebrate the finishing of the building and involved a large number of pupils from the school as well as guest artists including Emma Pears.
Borderlands Conference
Borderlands Conference with Phatfish
Dave was booked engineer both the music by Phatfish and the conference activites. He used a combination of in house equipment and Phatfishs own desk and microphones. After some fine tuning on the kit all sounded good.