EMMA ROUND ONE AT CAS 2015
These days, it isn’t Doncaster Racecourse that marks the start of the car show and the sound off season any longer. The moment that show moved from the racecourse, it died for me. However, one of the coolest parts of that show now happens at the Modified Nationals at the end of May, in the shape of the Hot Rod & Custom Car Nationals show, run by the living legend that is Cliff Moore. (He started and grew the original Donny show and to his awesome credit used to hire me to present the live arena to up to 4,000 punters. I LOVED it.
However, these days that show hosts Round TWO of the EMMA (European Mobile Media Association) Sound Off series in the UK, which makes the always brilliantly-run and attended Car Audio & Security Open Weekend the host of Round One and thus, such a cool thing. It was held on the weekend of 25th/26th April, with the heavy judging on the Sunday. It’s in its third year as the Round One site and we saw new people entering and some real surprises, as established stars got a wake up call from new entrants in their own arena. For these cars are divided up according to the money spent, the level of experience or the amount of woofers. This is because they do a Concourse D’Elegance of sound, or Sound Quality, judged by strict audiophile standards type of contest, as well as a ‘˜who has the loudest’ thing.
The new Star of Loud was a VW T5 van, belonging to Vibe, full of their weapons-grade BlackDeath Fifteens. This represents serious corporate balls, as I said on video at the time. For said video, I shot it as an attempt at making a ‘˜real’ programme with edits as against pure gonzo.
It’s my first ever video-edit on the grown-up stuff (fire-breathing iMac and the sexy edit software in its guts) and I thought it was passable. BEST of all was, I did a full sign-off at the end and Richard Salmon says ‘HELOOOOOOO’ all excitedly immediately afterwards and even untrained, I was able to get a razor blade in there, figuratively, and chop it off to make my edit. Once I learn how, that’ll be the least of it.
Hopefully, you won’t be all, ‘That’s seventeen minutes of my life I will never get back.’
I tried, with mah mate Rino (we go back literally decades, now, old gits) to recapture that which made a video go a bit popular. I won’t say viral. But his Orion subwoofer one has gone over a quarter of a million. This Rockford Fosgate T1 subwoofer one is not yet showing much in the way of signs of life. But we had a go.
I do enjoy this one.
The sound off was very well attended and you can learn more about what it is all about here:
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Hit this link and see a captioned slideshow of all the stills I took on the day.link
See you at Round TWO!