Coachella Main Stage Evolution 2001 to 2023
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Lets take a look at the evolution of Coachella Stage and sound system, a festival that has grown to be one one of the most well known and highly regarded festivals in the world.
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 2001
01:37 2002
02:42 2003
03:35 2004
04:47 2005
07:04 2006
08:06 2007
09:18 2008
10:29 2009
12:00 2010
12:37 2011
13:48 2012
14:23 2013
15:34 2014
16:44 2015
18:02 2016
18:39 2017
19:49 2018
20:36 2019
21:30 2022
22:15 2023
24:30 outro
Wow. The 2023 system is absolutely insane. Would love to see the amp room and even the processing for the mains/sides/delays!
I share more info in depth on the member side. I can't really share too much inside info on the public side
@@DaveRat And how can I get access to the member side? 🙂
There is a link in most of the descriptions for my vids but some countries it does not work
Dave is the Bob Ross of the audio world...I swear watching this vid with Dave's voiceover lowered my blood pressure 😂
This is a lot of amazing vision, engineering and execution. Thanks for sharing!
Fun and huge compliment!
haha perfect comparison!
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I thought Dave was awesome before I knew he was awsome.
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Thank you for sharing these, Dave Rat! It's such a wonder to see how Coachella evolved.
Fun!
Thanks Dave. That's a little,lot bigger than my weekend blues gigs!
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😂 i found your channel again after 13 years. Good to know you are doing well. Keep up.
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Never been to Coachella, but I've been to many Ultra dating back to 2003. This was well done. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
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Love videos like this
amazing stuff
This is amazing 🎉
Loved this! Very nice of you to show and talk about all of this, thanks!
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Dave this is amazing, unique content. Thank you so much. I can't thank you enough for putting the time into making this (and.. of course.. the actual work back over the years actually _doing_ it) .. what a treat this video is.
So cool and thank you!
My friend and I have a small church gig next weekend... We'll be wearing our "Sound Human" shirts while while we mix the praise band!
That rules!!
Thanks Dave for sharing!
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Thanks Masta for sharing this,so much to learn
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Thank you for this. Thank you for sharing
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This was super cool to learn about. Great video!
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thank you for sharing this❤
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Give thanks for these posts , constant progression and improvement .
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What a unique story you have Dave! love these videos
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The way that coachella stage evolves over the years. We can even predict that the video department will add led on the black strip at the top for 2024 stage!
Awesome work Dave!! 🤘
The video was one stripe higher for stagecoach. It's all about smooth beautiful lines where everything you see is attractive and doesn't look meshed together.
I really enjoyed this, please continue sharing all your knowledge with us. Thanks Dave
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Dave, always good information! It’s neat to see the progression of sound reinforcement over that period of time!! Thank you my friend!
Cool and thank you
Super interesting, thanks Dave!! 2023’s setup is hugely impressive
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Another great video! Super interesting!!
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worked along side you before was pretty cool. thanks for this vid.
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Amazing as always Thanks Dave for this little Coachella's history lesson
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Dave I'd love to see a series where you document some of the current big systems being set up and tuned at shows if you ever get the chance to do it.
Hmmm, I don't go to enough shows to do that. But I will cover some of the stuff I am working on
Thank you for sharing this amazing bit of history and for always reaching higher. Back around 2011-2012, a band I worked with had to back out of Coachella, so I missed my chance to mix on the main stage. Ah, well!
Next time
Thanks Dave, this was a really cool video. I’m sure it took a lot of effort to assemble all this footage and make the narration. So nice.
Awesome thank you!
You are a legend Dave, you really do inspire we coming up to do great, Hopefully see you in person someday.
Cool cool yeah I hope to meet you as well and I go to festivals maybe I'll run into you
Thank you very muc for sharing, Dave , highly educational, god bless
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What a legendary video. One of a kind.
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This was super informative, I have no idea about audio tech but now I feel like I have a better understanding and a better appreciation for the next time I go to a music festival, thanks!
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I’ve had the please to mix 3 (well 4 if you count the double weekend) headline shows at Coachella. Twice with Muse and once with The Cure. Always such a pleasure and always a great time getting to hang with you Dave. We also got to figure out how to mix during a full blown sand storm!!!
Mind boggling!! I just want to take a sec to congratulate you for such a inspirational career, thanks for all the contents you share, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks again
So cool and thank you and much appreciated!
Thank you Dave! 🤘
I'm struggling with a couple of subwoofers at home, and you're making one of the biggest arenas sound.
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you are the man
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This is the dopest vid I’ve seen all week and it’s Saturday.
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Great Video. 😃👍♥️
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What a great presentation, Dave! Continuity is a luxury many in our business never get to experience. It was very entertaining seeing the trend line of Coachella over the decades, yes decades!! You must feel deep pride and satisfaction from the essential role you’ve played. The festival org team must be pinching themselves with the knowledge you will be there, every year, inventing and accommodating in equal parts, bringing an institutional memory to the sound design. Bravo!
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Love it!!!
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My man, you're one hell of a narrator. Great, great content. I enjoy a brief talk about what and who you know from the Grateful Dead scene back in the day. That would be a real treat!
Ahhh, will ponder that and thank you
This is awesome, Dave! I retired from live sound in 2002. My last tour was my first with line array (vertec) mains. I quit right at the tipping point to digital consoles and line arrays, so I am pretty clueless yet intrigued by all the advances in array configuration, digital routing etc.
While I'm not working at it anymore, I really enjoy learning about the latest tech. Thanks!
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Simply Amazing! 🔊
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gracias por compartir¡
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Pretty awesome to see Dave reminisce on all the great shows he’s had over the years while explaining the evolution of the PA. I’m a young sound boy, still faking it until I make it somewhere. I hope my sound career will be a fraction as exciting as Dave’s has been
This is so cool
Great vid subject...thanks! ; )
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It would be awesome to learn how you design those shows 🔥
Awesome content as always!!!!
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This is amazing you never realize how much work goes into a festival like this. But the changes over the years and all the work that has been done is amazing and very inspirational.
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Words cannot articulate how great it feels watching your hardwork and dedication for the live music industry over the course of time.. .. 🤟
Awesome and thank you
gracias por compartir
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Whenever i need to think on a happy place to relax, I will replay this video in my mind, simply amazing
Love it!
Dave, I love how you keep pushing forward in sound. The double stack is still a great , but expensive. The use of cardinal sub Arrays, is so smart. In small clubs I have good results with a centre speaker mostly for vocals. 🤗
Awesome thank you!
Best video ever!
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So cool!
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Never been, most likely never will attend. But that's OK, this is the stuff I tend to look at anyways! Thank you Sir!
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Dave explained how the 2023 PA was dialed in . Was warmth and clear sufficient and clear . I asked as I go to events and have to plug my ears as the system is harsh and not musical. Especially at high SPL .Great work to have every department to work with each other for the end result.
Exactly
Thanks Dave! Would love to see a video breakdown of the skrillex/four tet/fred again PA in the round!
Thank you thank you thank you….we appreciate all you are doing.
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Dude, so sick, the Shxt people come up with and the ability and willingness to throw it out there on YT, beautiful times 🖤😎🙌 #strongworkyo
Awesome
outstanding!
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This might be my favorite video of yours ever haha, that's saying a lot. You're the man, Dave! This was great - I spent many years working festivals around the US and this brought back so many great memories.
Also, side question (if you happen to know): Does Mountain build these Cochella stages?
Currently Coachella owns the stage
L Acoustics must be so happy Rat Sound has been so loyal ❤🎉
Wondering if you still have your Kudos and K1s or time to upgrade 😂
I petition that L Acoustics must sponsor Rat Sound with top of the line equipment. It’s time. 😊🤝
We like L acoustics a lot. Good friends with many people that work there as well.
I even got invited to the department head get away in France as an honory member.
Kudo is sold off, we just bought more K1 as it is still current and top of class
I had a front spot for Gozillaz's at Coachella '23. Amazing experience. I hope you blow us away for the Power Trip festival.
Since power trip is more of a show and not really a festival and most of the bands use clear brothers it's highly unlikely that we will be doing it
@15:19 As a 20 yr Coachella vet, if you ever need help filling that front of house... I got you man!
Thanks for the recap.
From the slappy delay of the early Sahara to now you really have outdone yourself my dude. Its so much cleaner(delay, bleed) and just as loud at the festival while during weekend 2 at my house my windows no longer shake. That's PROGESS!!
Cool cool Robert!!
It’s so surreal, I own almost every FOH console ever used at Coachella except for maybe 2024! YamahaPM3000,PM4000, PM5000, PM7-CL, PM 1K twin Midas Heritage 3000’s Midas Verona, think I saw an A&H GL2800. I have them all in perfect working order!!!
Oh my and cool collection
Very interesting ❤
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I'm from Australia, I made the trek over especially for the 2007 Coachella. I had been in the industry for a couple of years by then, but not long enough to critique your dual hang config with any kind of experienced ears, but memory tells me it was good. Though Willie Nelson's level was such that the slightest breeze took Willie away from us. All good memories though ✌️
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Thank’s
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Really cool to see the changes over the years. Thanks for sharing this! Can you some day please explain how patching works at festivals / how are multiple consoles used for the different bands? Are there different snakes and different mics? How do the outputs all get shared to the same arrays from multiple consoles?
I'm pretty sure I covered the rat sound drive racks on the member side of the channel
This is fascinating
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It's interesting to see the evolution of cell phones, too: by 2014 the audience is full of people recording the show.
Right! Great notice
Sick New World in Vegas a month ago needed some of those wind clamps on their delays..Unfortunately as soon as wind picked up and they dropped em down the impact to the sound was pretty bad.
Yep, we don't drop and are safe to 50mph wind on our side. Other festival aspects may have differing parameters
I'm fascinated by the use of double hanging/buses/submixes. How is the acceptance of the rest of foh engineers? Have you proposed it for other editions with the current systems? And thank you for these wonderful videos.
If ya search Dave rat double hung, there is a good amount of info. Articles and on the blog I did back then. People gad a tough time understanding back then but now I think it would be less challenging.
I would use it again if I was still mixing and had a band willing to foot the costs
Very cool
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Absolutely awesome. It is incredible how technology and possibilities were grown despite the fact that physics is just one. Thank you Dave for showing those changes
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Very cool! thanks for sharing. I came into the game in 2008 and got to see some of these major changes in my come up. Was wondering if you know who the LD for coachella was in this time frame? Would be cool to hear their evolution story on this.
I do know but that is in his realm to share and not mine
Dave decides to blow everyones speakers at the end of the video! lol
I'm surprised at the clamp design and use. I would have thought that something that solid would be more dangerous if a big wind came up. Thanks for all you do brother!
Swing, bang and added pendulum forces vs added strength and support
I'm a local engineer up in the high desert. I've gotten to work with Hutch a couple of times, he's a great engineer and I've learned a lot from him and modeled my small PA after the one he uses for smaller gigs. I would love to do some mixing on these insane systems!
Super cool and send my love to Hutch!
@@DaveRat Will do the next time I see him!
Awsome! Dave i love the pa braces and tell me what you think about pa speakers with led to intagrate with the led wall can we make that happen?
I think we will see progress at some point and it could be profitable, but deeper pockets and more patience than I have will be needed.
A bit more progress in smaller brighter LED's to minimize negative sound impacts is probably needed as well
It'll be amazing if you covered the coachella stage this year ;)
I will be sharing info on Coachella setups as I have done in past years but it's only on the member side of the channel. Coachella is very touchy about publicly sharing inside information but sharing to the filtered group of channel members is all good
Where are the super subs? You used them on this festival, I thought. Nice progress and innovations. Thanks for sharing
Sahara tent
awesome, I am also curious with the rigging system, is there any video discussing it?
Not at this point
Seeing the festival and the tech requirements grow over the past years is so awesome. But i wonder: Do you rent parts of the PA and amps? Or did you buy all of that ?
We own most of it but do subhire in boxes, amps and consoles.
We try and own 70% of our peak demand and Coachella is our peak demand. Especially when we have tours out as well at the same time
@@DaveRat Thanks man.
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What's a rough ballpark figure of the cost of that Coachella 2023 sound system? Absolutely epic.
Maybe 6 to 8 million current value of gear but way more if it was all new. As a lot of stuff like cable and cases ans accessory bits like mics we have owned and built up over many years
@@DaveRat Amazing .It must be pretty cool knowing you have one of the nicest sound systems in the world 😂
Good gear is part of the equation, great people to work with is key
Really interesting to see the progression. The latest setup looks completely mental! What desks are you using there these days? Has it gone all Digico now or not really?
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Seeing Coachella in 2012 changed my perception of outdoor sound. But now it’s hard to listen to other systems. People look at me strangely when I say Red Rocks, except for the first third of rows, is a bad sounding venue, but it’s true. Needs delay clusters in the worst way.
Red rocks is definitely a challenge.
Putting in delay clusters without screwing up sight lines would require overhead structures supported on the sides which would be pretty ugly probably not feasible given the natural look and feel of the venue
Wait.... How does a band get their own entire desk? Are there 12 desks out there, bigger acts get to setup their own station, own desk and outboard, ready to patch in?
Yes bands can bring their own consoles and we make room. Every show day we load in and load out multiple consoles
@@DaveRat that's wild and AWESOME! Thanks!
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This guy is legend
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I hope Mick hears your attempt at his Brummie accent. :)
Ha, I've actually done it in front of him when hanging out
@@DaveRat Laughed loudly and called you "bag", right?
Good times great dude
Lol, i see greg price is mixing metallica now. Has mick retired?
Interesting. Don't know as I stopped touring in 2017 so I don't get the scoop as much on what's going on.
I never really thought about cardioid for arrays, that was shown for 2023. I would be tempted to go to Coachella 2024 just to really immerse myself in that impressive sound system. Is there still such a thing as a 'DNUOS ECNALUBMA' in todays concerts?
it has been quite a few years since we have had any significant or immediate audio coverage issues that can't be addressed with a radio call. So we no longer implement the emergency vehicle
Thanks Dave! Did yall run sound at Desert Trip as well??
Also, when clicking the red box you’re selling in the RUclips app on iOS I am getting an opps page. It doesn’t happen for your other items, just that one
No we didn't do desert trip it wasn't really a festival that was more of a four band show and most of the bands were clair brother accounts.
I was a bit surprised we got to do the big four same reasons but since it was back-to-back with Coachella it made sense for us to stay on site.
Thank you for the heads up on the sales link working on it now!
Hi Dave. What a great video. Specially, because you showed the transition from analog to digital mixers. Lately, I have realized that sonicly I don’t enjoy today’s shows wether I’m in the venue or when I watch them on tv/youtube. 3 weeks ago I went to a show and I realized they had a digital console... and I went like “oh no... I now know what’s going on”. It feel’s different for me... like no much flavor... And I feel this from the shows, in general, after 2008/2009. What do you think/feel?? Do you enjoy the sound of the digital consoles more than the analog ones? Cheers
I saw U2 some years ago in SLC and could hear the line arrays shifting in the wind. I wondered why nobody had come up with a solution as it was really distracting.
Hey Dave, I know that the main stage and roof structure is not your domain per se, but I was wondering if you could speak to its basic construction. It looks super solid and I would imagine it’s probably one of the best design structures in North America, but some people have poo poo it as potentially unstable. These of course are armchair quarterbacks who’ve never seen it themselves. But I would imagine you have some insight as to its construction.
Ha, yeah. I don't know stages but was around for discussions of safety factors vs wind and weight. They analyzed why other restructures have failed and built that thing pretty much inevitable. It needs to be way stronger with all that video wall. The stgae strength is never the issue. Touring hanging sets that swing in the wind are a concern but every detail is heavily vetted but the team of structural engineers.
This is one of the few or only festival stages that has the PA entirely rigid clamped and we are rated above 50 mph winds.
I would say it is probably one of the safest portable stages on earth being deployed
Incredible video once again Dave. I wanted to ask: how is that original K1 rig from 2009 doing today? Still in use? I have to say, my favorite stages are probably 2007 and 2023
We still have the original K1 rig and just increased by another 64 boxes this year.
Wow. Incredible. Thanks Dave!
Truly massive setups that seem very well thought out. I can only imagine that advancements in DSP has made your job much easier. How hard would it be to operate the massive 2023 system using 2003 tech?
Tough. As the pa's were bigger, heavier, not as loud per size or pound and sound system rigging was crap and we did not have prediction software.
We'd end up with that horrible sounding PA like U2 has on Pop Mart tour.
I mixed rage against the machine opening for U2 on that rig and it was misery