The image to the left is the Califur VI stage just before we finished setting it up.  In our gallery, you'll find several more images of the set-up.  As soon as we get actual event images we'll post them.  The event was exciting.  We were sharing the hotel with KROQ, and KROQ was using this as their host hotel for their annual KROQ Weenie Roast.  Stone Temple Pilots tried to crash our party, and supposedly Smashmouth, and other bands were in the hotel, even Devo.  The two unlikely to be compatible events seemed to not only get along well, there was a lot of "cross polilnation" between events.  Even the KROQ manager said she wanted to pre-register for Califur VII.  We were brought down to facilitate the stage for one specific performance, and Califur was able to benefit from it's use all weekend.   Hopefully next year Califur will have us back again in a similar capacity or even  an expanded capacity as well. 

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Friday, and Saturday nights the dance allowed us to open up the floodgates of the  Crown and JBL PA quite a bit.  Perhaps this is why STP  wanted into the party.  We coarsely measured the room at well over 100db.  As someone pointed out with this URL's chart, it was getting up there!  It was still comfortable, clear, and un-distorted with plenty of headroom left.  We never actually were able to turn it up even close to redline, but the system has proven to have considerable "bandwidth".  We'll likely need a large outdoor venue to really push this safely.  Perhaps an outdoor concert or street fair is on order! 

To the right is a custom system control I was working on between performances.  I later added more controls , and indicators.  This was a great place to demo the total control of the Crown iTech DSP.  Literally any control light, meter, indicator, slider or knob that is controlled by software can be presented in a custom control surface.  This really lends itself well to the pictured laptop, because it's touch screen. 

In addition to controlling sound over WiFi, we also controlled the R4 visualization via WiFi, and opened up the web interface to our house DJ's so they could put their own text messages up.   The whole system performed exceptionally well.  I'm really excited about the potential to beta test Morphyre Pro in the near future at a local event.  I'm hoping we can package Morphyre Pro in a rack like we do R4, and deploy it as a single "audio visualization appliance" that can be essentially a plug and play solution like our existing R4 configuration.

We provided everything for this stage except lighting.  We could have provided that as well.  However , our predecessor, Michael "Digital Panther" Underwood, was gracious enough to arrange for us to have lighting locally sourced through his connections at GearConnect.  Michael left Califur to move up to Director of the Entertainment Group at Anime Expo (AX).  We wish him the best of success at AX.  He made a cameo appearance back stage on Saturday afternoon, and it was great to see him there.  Hopefully AX will be nice enough to give him enough time to visit all future Califurs, and re-join us once the dust settles.

Our gallery will host more images of Califur as they beome available.