From Jan - Present a brief catch up session.

I haven’t been very diligent about posting gig blogs. In fact, I haven’t posted anything in a while. I suppose it’s time to post somewhat of an update. Let’s get everyone up to speed quickly.

From January thru April I was the audio systems engineer on the Avenged Sevenfold / Buckcherry tour. On that tour I also mixed FOH for Burn Halo who was the tour support band.

In May, as I was preparing for the summer of festivals with Thunder Audio, I was called by Nigel (the FOH for A7X). Nigel was having some health concerns that made him unable to mix a few gigs with A7X and asked me to fill in; of course I agreed. I’m happy to help out a friend and I’m very happy to be mixing a band like A7X. It’s another move in the right direction for my career.

The first A7X gig was opening for Korn at DTE Amphitheatre in Michigan. Once I stopped trying to recreate Nigel’s mix and created my own, I was comfortably in the pocket and had a great show.

The second A7X gig was at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, OH. It was my first stadium gig and I was more than slightly nervous. Luckily I also mixed Burn Halo on the third stage early in the day and I got my head wrapped around the gig instead of the festival. Both Halo and A7X were great gigs for me and led me to where I am now.

As I write this, I am sitting in the production office for A7X in Foro Sol Stadium, Mexico City. A7X is playing 3 shows with Metallica this week in front of 50,000+ crazy Mexicans every day. Every show is sold out.

I took a walk around the venue before the doors opened to the public. Taking some photos along the way I all of a sudden realized that this was my 2nd stadium gig EVER (the first being Columbus the week prior) and I was standing on a covered pitcher’s mound in a baseball stadium on my first trip to Mexico about to mix a metal band in front of a sea of people. That’s 3 things to cross off of my “to do” list… ;-)

I’ll have some good photos to post soon. For now, I think I’m going to find some churros. I have some stories to tell about my first trip to MX, but I want to go outside right now.

Cheers!