QSC Audio Knocks It Out of the Park at Live @ Shea Stadium

January 2010 – Brooklyn, NY - In New York City and the surrounding five boroughs, it is not uncommon to see live bands with considerable "buzz" playing in basements, lofts, warehouses, and other makeshift ‘venues'. In the growing Brooklyn music scene, a slew of DIY venues have popped up throughout the borough. While these are exciting times and exciting environments in where to see performances by the next generation of break out artists, live sound quality almost always suffers due to these circumstances.

Live @ Shea Stadium is Brooklyn's first interactive recording studio/DIY venue/all ages show space committed to provided touring bands and local artists who cannot normally afford proper recording a chance to document their live set free of charge. Live @ Shea Stadium has largely built it's reputation through their spot-on live sound quality, thanks to their QSC Audio HPR Loudspeaker System.

In comparison to the bevy of competition from other venues, many of which popped up in the last few years mimicking the Live @ Shea Stadium business model, it is well-known among local bands, DJs and live show fans that Live @ Shea Stadium is one of the best sounding loft/venues in Brooklyn, which can attributed almost entirely to the QSC Audio HPR Active Loudspeaker System. The venue uses little to no outboard gear, and the 16 x 8-channel snake is plugged directly into the Mackie Onyx (whose FireWire output enables Live @ Shea Stadium to record all of its shows), which is then rerouted to a Yamaha EMX board.

Without fancy microphones and digital signal processing, the QSC HPR Series PA, consisting of two HPR153i three-way full range cabinets, augmented with a single QSC Audio HPR181i powered sub, delivers crystal clear audio quality, and unprecedented power without distortion.

In addition to the HPR system's superb definition, they are also extremely durable against the gamut of small venue perils: crowd surfers, beer spills, power outages, etc. In a rather unstable show environment, the QSC Audio HPR Loudspeaker System knocks it out of the park every time.

Live @ Shea Stadium Equipment List:
(1) AKG D-112
(1) SHURE BETA 52
(1) SHURE BETA 54
(4) SHURE SM 57s
(4) SHURE SM 58s
(3) SENNHEISER e604s
(2) CAD GXL1200s
(1) SHURE AX7
Mackie Onyx 1640 w/FireWire card
Yamaha EMX5016CF
PROCO 16 x 8 Custom Snake

For more info about Live @ Shea Stadium, please check out: http://www.myspace.com/sheastadiumbk or email them at http://www.myspace.com/sheastadiumbk to book rehearsal and recording time.