Welcome to the Loy Foundations' Bottilng Works technical Q&A page.

The Set-up

The system has been designed as a surround system for the audience and to give the performer(s) the experience of hearing the same mix the audience hears. This allows you to play instead of the usual worrys of things like "I wonder just what the audience is hearing?" and"Where the heck is that feedback coming from?"

Here feedback and howling and undue reverberation are things of the past as the software samples and adjusts levels at speeds of no less than 16 microseconds (NOT milliseconds like most feedback-controlled systems). It uses both passive and active cancellation to control both feedback-reverberation control and phase shifting. if you play a g# you get a g# back at you, not a phase-shifted half flat g like so many other stage set-ups.

The system can be run in several modes:
1) Standard mono configuration

2) A standard stereo mix with either 4-driver or 8-driver configuration

3) A stereo ambient channel configuration (Thanks to David Hafler, one of the best amp-builders to come around in the past 50 years) and "Bud" Freid of Frieid Products, in my opinion the best over-the-counter studio monitor builder in America.) More info on this configuration is available upon request. it truly makes the borders of the room disappear...even on stage.)

4) A discreet 4-channel, 8-driver configuration for a controlled surroundscape for the audience that uses the ambient drivers to create a seamless sound stage.

All of the drivers are suspended to create a clean stage environment.

Input Specs

The snake is 20 channels (10 xlr for the main inputs on the board; 6 xlr for submix if needed) and four 1/4" balanced for d/i use. (Yes, you can plug your guitar or bass or keyboard or sequencer into them without a d/i box, thus adding much less noise into the system).

The bandpass of the system runs from 5hz to 22050hz (what I designed the software that runs it to handle). The C-L-E software was designed and licensed to the Loy Foundation and is not available to the general public for sale.

It has a noise floor of -90Db/a and tops out at + 18 Db/a for 12 milliseconds clean. Max output of the system is within OSHA specs, which means that we don't try to peel the paint off the walls and your sound is as clean as humanly possible without the usual distortions and ultra-annoying feedback that plagues all too many systems and distracts you, the performer, from having a good time.

if your band or troupe needs more inputs, feel free to bring your normal mixing board and it can be sub-mixed into the main system, no problem. I do have control over the final production mix.

We have four normal mics (Shure PG57s and A.S.R.S. ambient mics, as well as two additional instrument mics). You are most welcome to bring your pet microphones and stands. (Yes.we have on-board phantom power).

if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

We look forward to having you at our venue. Have a great time!