Production March 2006

Please visit the “Project Gallery” link on our website to view pictures of various large full-scale concert production jobs that Ashen White completed between December 2005 and January 2006. Some of these sites include the National Trade Centre, the Air Canada Centre and the MTCC.  The average equipment package sent out during that period of time included 24-32 EAW line-array boxes, 144,000-watts of conventional lighting and 24-32 moving head fixtures with multiple motorized fly-points.

Ashen White was awarded the audio and lighting production contract by the City of Toronto for the 2006 “Winter City” festival that was held at Nathan Phillips Square, and other sites, during the months of January and February 2006.

During the first week of the “Winter City” festival, Ashen White provided a 12-box EAW KF-760/761 large format line-array system flown from 25’ scaffold towers, along with numerous EAW JFX-260 in-fill speakers for area fills.  Sub-bass was covered by 8 TSW-718 2x18” 1600-watt sub-woofers.  Routing for the various zones was provided by multiple sends from line mixers and a Midas Venice 320 audio console.

In the second week of the festival we provided a 16-box Turbosound Floodlight system stacked on 4 10’ tall scaffold towers, along with 4 ST-25 super-towers holding 12 EAW JFX-260 full range speakers that were used for special vocal feeds and additional area coverage.  Sub-bass was covered by 16 TSW-718 2x18” 1600-watt sub-woofers. Routing and mixing was managed with one 48-channel Soundcraft MH-4 audio console along with line mixers and media pool feeds.

Signal source for the show was provided by various playback units and numerous Shure and Sennheiser wired microphones along with 16-channels of Sennheiser 3000 Series UHF wireless transmitters and receivers and 24-channels of Shure U4 UHF wireless transmitters and receivers.  At the height of the event we were managing a total of approximately 40 channels of wireless along with 5 separate UHF antenna distribution systems.  Please feel free to contact our rental department if you require small to large wireless rentals for your up and coming events.  We have numerous Shure and Sennheiser wireless systems in our rental stock.

Lighting on the “Winter City” festival included about 300,000-watts of conventional lighting, a large outdoor-use LED package and about 20 moving lights. Thousands of linear feet of cable was used to link the lighting to the main dimming and control equipment.  The overall show package included one main outdoor site, one mobile stage site and four large tents each with small audio systems and individual lighting packages.  Additional staging was provided last-minute to help with client logistics issues.

At the same time that we were handling the “Winter City” festival, we were also gearing up for one of the largest high-profile corporate dinner and awards shows that happens in Toronto each year and packaging equipment for multiple clients at the “2006 Toronto Auto Show”. These events happened in the first three weeks of February and will be detailed in our project gallery and in a future newsletter.

As we head into the busy summer season we are once again building up our stock of extra equipment and preparing for another fantastic series of shows.  The Ashen White staff is looking forward to working with our long-term and new clients over the next few months.