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CCA Events Event production for festivals, public address and touring. Specialise in audio and live bands.
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Wonderful weekend at Brighton Electric recording with 's relish. Great to catch up with friends from across the pond in ...
21/11/2024

Wonderful weekend at Brighton Electric recording with 's relish. Great to catch up with friends from across the pond in Poland again and make some more great memories, and great music.

It's been 5 years since we worked together, but we got straight to it and managed to capture a magical session. Recording a band like this live is always a challenge I enjoy, and something i've spent much of my career working on.

Visiting for my first time, i found Brighton Electric to be such an incredible place. The staff, from engineers to bar staff were lovely, accommodating, knowledgable and helpful. They even let us (and helped us) move to the bigger studio 1 on the second day to help with getting the larger sound I was looking for.

Both studios are wonderfully equipped and the atmosphere was rather unique and lively. Being able to use a huge array of vintage kit was fantastic, and often forgotten about in modern recording.

Here's a snippet from the last time I got together with the band;

https://open.spotify.com/artist/77d2MULoPjjiLGXNqIygo0?si=u8AvdTSGTE2WHPYcuOMsFQ

Some nerdy session highlights below;

Drums;

Coles 4038 on Overheads, running through Rupert Neve 1073DPA pre.
Kick & Snare running through Distressors (pre and post)
Drum bus through Universal Audio 1176LN
Cloud 44a on mono overhead.

Bass through Sans Amp Tech21 RBI, Electro-Voice RE20 on an Ampeg 8x10 cabinet.

Heil PR30 / Royer R-121 on guitars.

Another week, another set of happy clients.We had 4 Danley Sound Labs SM80's and TH118XL's out for Arundel Castle's 2024...
07/08/2024

Another week, another set of happy clients.

We had 4 Danley Sound Labs SM80's and TH118XL's out for Arundel Castle's 2024 joust for the week, with all the wireless handled from Sennheiser's DX series and the playback master Tom Payne on controls for the week with our SQ6.

It's an impressive show which sees jousting competitors from around the world gather in the beautiful castle grounds for a week of jousting.

Last weekend we headed down to Dorset for Stompin on the Quomps with Stagelightsound.com using our SH96HO's, 2 x BC415 and a J3 for rear fill to tackle a challenging site with limits of 85dba at FOH and 65dba off site at the NSP's.

The use of point source with thoughtful design allowed us to keep the dance floor pumping and the 100m or so rear area covered without getting any complaints from local residents.

Thanks Josh Grizz for being on the controls for that one, and Re-Production for the extra gear since we were all out.

Also thanks to Reinforcement Audio for the extra SM80's!

Finally recovered after another year at the wonderful Wilkswood Reggae Festival 2024 - a gig I've been working at for (0...
26/07/2024

Finally recovered after another year at the wonderful Wilkswood Reggae Festival 2024 - a gig I've been working at for (06?) years, initially as a monitor engineer and for the last 2 years have ran the entire audio production for.

This festival has been my audio playground and happy place, and I put EVERYTHING into this one event each year because we love being their so much. It's one big family of 60+ people working behind the scenes together to make it all work, and the atmosphere start to end is electric.

This year we were asked to put all of the subs on site into the main arena. We used our usual Danley Sound Labs setup, but with 12 x TH118XL, 2 x SH96HO (freshly painted white) and 2 x SH95HO, one for centre fill and one for bar fill. This was all powered from 5 x DNA20K4's and sounded huge!

My highlight of the weekend was getting complimented by mad professor on my mixing, and then a shout our during his set - a highlight of my career to be honest!

The weekend saw legends such as Mad Professor, clarke, Zion Train, Shniece, MC Brother Culture, General Levy and many many more come through.

FOH was an ALLEN & HEATH D-LIVE C3500 with outboard done via my Universal Audio plugins using an X6, providing some lovely extra toys such as realverb pro, distessor, Ampeg SVT and SSL G-Bus to name a few. The whole show is recorded via Dante to the mac mini running the outboard.

Monitor world was an SQ6 with 8 M4's, with all the backline carefully selected by ourselves and supplied by Ooosh! Tours ensuring the stage sound was on point with DW drums Ampeg on the bass duties and Fender on the guitar amps.

Stagelightsound.com supplied the lighting and staging again, with Barber on the controls who absolutely smashed it as usual.

Countryman Sound System Sinai Sound System and Iration steppas were all on point in the sound system arena.

David Hadland did a wonderful job of the audio on bangmix stage for us this year, and we had David Whitewood on mons and Gail Watkis stage managing.

Huge thanks to the rest of our (volunteer) build / break crew for their help (wont let me tag you) and I look forward to hopefully seeing you all again next year for Wilkswood 2025 and a huge thanks to Aron Traynor and mountjoy for creating such a special place. Also to Re-Production for the extra kit.

I highly recommend this festival to anyone who loves Dub Reggae and all things in between. Early bird tickets are on sale now from link below;

https://wilkswoodreggae.com/tickets/

Proud to once again support Littlehampton Town Council with their Armed Forces Day in Littlehampton last weekend.A pair ...
03/07/2024

Proud to once again support Littlehampton Town Council with their Armed Forces Day in Littlehampton last weekend.

A pair of Danley Sound Labs SH96HO's flown and splayed from the centre of the arena and some SM80's provided clear, consistent audio throughout the 50m x 100m arena. This system is largely designed for public address, but also handles the background music etc for the stunt shows with ease when they're ran down to 60hz.

Huge thanks to Conor Noakes on the controls, Roger Binyon on the rigging and Lee taking care of the crewing and logistics.

It seems to have been an entire month of castle and cathedral gigs, but I'm rather proud of this one!Arundel Castle, a l...
10/06/2024

It seems to have been an entire month of castle and cathedral gigs, but I'm rather proud of this one!

Arundel Castle, a long term client of ours, approached us to install a new sound system for the Duke in the Baron's Hall.

The brief was rather challenging with;

- No new cabling allowed.

- Existing loudspeaker positioning must be maintained, and they have to be flush against the wall.

- Loudspeakers must be discreet and colour coded.

- The system must switch on with one switch, and be operated easily, by anybody.

- The system must follow a specific operational layout they wanted to maintain (hence the fluro taped rack, as requested). We'd normally have it printed.

- There must be a backup wired microphone system, using the existing sockets in the room for emergencies.

For the PA we chose Danley Sound Labs Mini 180's supplied by Danley Distribution which we had both the box and grilles colour matched to the walls. The mini180 is a useful tool, providing an impressive 180x90 dispersion allowing us to get the coverage needed whilst hitting the brief. This is powered from a Linea Research 5kc.

RF is all Sennheiser G4, and control is ALLEN & HEATH as the client required a simple fader.

We then had some custom brackets fabricated by Jock Dreadster at Aztec Centreline to get them flush against the wall and discreet.

Huge thanks to Conor Noakes of Guildford Cable Company for the custom distro / patch, and his heroic knowledge / help on site getting it all one.

With the studio closed (keys handed back today) we're looking at the positives as we start to get booked up for the majo...
27/02/2024

With the studio closed (keys handed back today) we're looking at the positives as we start to get booked up for the majority of the year. Time to look back on a few events from the past year.

Back in January we were out on a small UK tour with of the dance providing audio production alongside a FOH, mic and monitoring package. Thanks to the wonderful lighting solutions ltd for having us, and their excellent lighting / production.

Lovely venues, great cast and a nice block of work for a normally rather quiet January.

Got a festival, tour, install or anything else audio related you want to chat about? Drop us an email on [email protected]

Well ...... removal of the studio begins! Sad times, but plenty of fond memories over the years.
20/01/2024

Well ...... removal of the studio begins! Sad times, but plenty of fond memories over the years.

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Arundel
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We are an event production company with a strong passion and specialism in audio. Our national network of partners allows us to provide the best the industry has to offer in everything you could need to run an amazing event. At our home in West Sussex we also have a purpose built recording and rehearsal studio with a control room.