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Blink 182 US Tour 2004

Rat Sound is proud to go on tour with Blink 182 once again! Click for 2004 Tour Pics

Just finished the North American leg co-headlining with No Doubt.

No Doubt provided their own colsoles and monitor rigs (apart from the sidefills) and Rat provided all gear and personnel for Blink (see below for equipment used). Both bands used a Rat PA. I know the guys found this tour particularly challenging with 2 major coheadliners, set changes etc, but all in all it proved to be successful. As Andy Rat said, (monitors for Blink) "The biggest challenges were moving the different set pieces around the back stage area, especially in the the very small venues. We only had 30 minutes to complete set change which was ok when we were switching from Blink to ND because Blink had very little set to speak to strike from the stage. But when we changed from ND to blink it was a totally different story. Just maneuvering the ND set pieces around was challenging and then once in place it all had to cabled up. The good thing was that no matter what sound company you worked for we were all were just like one crew just working really hard to get the set change complete".

Blink 182 chooses V-Dosc for their North American Tour 2004 with Rat Sound providing the following equipment and personnel:

Crew:
Sound Company:
Rat Sound Systems Inc.
FOH Engineer: Bryan Worthen
Monitor Engineer: Andy Turner
FOH Technician: Kevin McKenzie
Systems Tech: Tommy LBC
Monitor Technician: Ivan Ortiz
Crew Chief: Andy Turner
Production Manager: Eric Fermin

Gear:
FOH:

Console: Midas XL4, Yamaha PM 4K
Speakers: L-Acoustics V-Dosc, dV-Dosc, RAT Dual 18" Subwoofers
Amps: Crown 5002, Crown 3600, Crown 2404, Crest 7001
Processing:
Eventide H3500, TC Electronic D2, Yamaha SPX 990, Drawmer DS201, BSS DPR 504, BSS DPR 404, DBX 160XT
Mics: Audix OM7, D6, D2, D3, SCX111, SCX1, "Mini D" Buy Audix "A" and "Z" Stock Mics Now!

Monitors:
Console:
Midas XL4, Midas Venice
Speakers: RAT Stereo 3-way Sidefills+Subwoofers, RAT 3-way Drumfills + Subwoofers,
Amps: Crest 4601, Crest 4801, Crest 7001
Processing: Klark Teknik DN 360, BSS DPR944, BSS DPR404, Aphex 661 Expressor, Shure PSM700 w/ Ultimate Ears UE pro 10

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