Rick Dobbelmann

The Minnesota Music Note - Ep 32 - The Sound Behind The Scene with Rick Dobbelmann

5mo ago

Fun facts from the interview

• His first PA came from an auction: two 18-inch subs, two EAW 8s and two EAW 12-inch tops, plus a Midas mixer.
• Arch Allies toured with a 24-foot box truck full of gear, which taught Rick what he wanted in his own PA.
• He brings his own mixer, show file and sometimes stage box to festivals and plugs into the house PA.
• Most of his bands use in-ear monitors, which keeps the stage quiet.
• He says the Dog House is the hardest room he mixes, with tin above and behind the drum riser.
• The biggest venue he has mixed is the Pablo Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
• He also mixes for the Rush tribute Exit Stage Right and the Megabeth Project, and mixed a sold-out Trilogy show at St. Croix.
• He organized Legends of Rock, a seven-band outdoor tribute show at the Dog House on June 6, with all the door money going to the bands and production.
• Rick Copeland of Itasca Sound and Lights provided the PA and stage for that show.
• As a teen he built car stereos, once putting 18 speakers into a 1991 Cavalier.
• He recommended Dog House owner Chad and sound engineer Tim Fischer of Wicked Garden as future guests.