Whoa, what a nice setup. Multiple Crown amps with thousands of watts of power in another small venue. JBL high end speakers in quantity. 32 channels is just fine, and another place with all new equipment (within 5 years old). A quallity setup for sure, so the sound should be very clean, as long as the buildings acoustics are damped right. I believe this is where someone had reported Gordons concert sounded bad, and it was stated that the guys all had head colds. Sure would have been a shame that they did, as this system should put out fine sound.
I should say, I don't know much about some of the newer IT model Crown amps they are using. They have a different electronic technology that they are using in them, but they should be (at mininum) equal to any of Crowns older amps in high quality, or I doubt they would put them out for sale. At any rate, their specs are excellent and should in no way hurt the sound.
In reference to Podunklanders post; The smaller venues usually have decent sound when it is just a couple of people on stage, but often break down when you get multiple instruments and singers. When it happens it means they are pushing the system they have too hard and it simply is giving up to distortion levels which always come in when power is pushed to near maximum. Older systems or underpowered can cause this. A perfect example is take a small portable radio and play it at normal level, then turn it up all the way and it will be hard to understand the words. The Mohegan Sun arena has pretty good sound, not so good on acoustics though. They have fine equipment but in just a big room it causes too much bounce and sound reflects off everything and can make it a bit muddy when too loud. Some of their loud rock or country music shows will tend to do this. I haven't been to the Hartford Civic Center in some years now, saw Neil Diamond there back in the 80s, nice sound and clean back then.
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