October Update! Goodbye Festival Season, Hello Tour! (Patreon)

Summer festival season has come to a close, but I’m excited that for the next month I’ll be working on pre production for the upcoming Louis The Child tour, “A World Apart.”

Thankfully, all of my pre production will be done at home and I’ll be able to record some programming sessions. All-in-all, there will be about fifteen full days worth of pre-production before I head to Florida for a week of rehearsals. The plan right now is to show up to rehearsals with 80% of the tracks timecoded and ready to go. This will be my first tour taking SMPTE from an ableton playback rig instead of showkontrol because this is a live show, so that should simplify things!

This tour will be fully automated as far as MA2 is concerned. No busking, and no operator having to switch timecodes and trigger songs. This is done with a separate automation timecode item that fires macros based on playback time, so as long as that timecode item is set to play, the whole show just goes. 

Google Drive folder: Google Drive seemed to work well last month, and although there are some very annoying things missing from Drive that I loved about Dropbox, it’s worth using drive for a while. As always, there will be a second post (below this one) with the link for those subscribed at the LD tier. I have doubled the amount of content in the folder this month.

Merch: hoodies are back in stock again and new designs will be coming out before I leave for tour. In fact, there will be an entire online store launching soon with all sorts of fun things for LDs and other event industry people. I'll be uploading some designs for you to vote on as well.

Website: I’ve revamped my website and would love if you could take a look and give me some feedback on what you like or don’t like. www.christian-jackson.com

My website is still a bit of a placeholder for a more professional site, but it has the basics :)

Things to expect this month:

- Another full length Patreon-only programming session video. All next week I will be doing nothing but sitting in front of the console programming songs for the tour.

- Two preview videos to check out before they hit the actual youtube channel (Clay Paky factory tour and Bumbershoot vlog episode 1)

- Tomorrow I am FINALLY shooting the Elation Monet video. It’s going to be a combination review/demo video kind of like the old robe megapointe video I made.

- I leave for Orlando, FL on Oct 21, where we will be spending a full week and a half in rehearsals and moving into the bus to begin our tour. Maybe even a day at Epcot. Who knows.

As always, if I’m coming to an area near you, make sure to send me a message if you’d like to see a show.

That’s it for now!