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"The magnificent sound production that Daniel and his courteous, knowledgeable crew have provided for Baystock has been instrumental.."
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"Mr. Willis not only provides outstanding production services,
but offers clients outstanding customer service.."
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"To say that Daniel is a professional is an understatement.."
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"I can say without reservation that I would
never want to work with someone else.."
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"I didn’t know that he had such great ears and tremendous instinct.
I think Daniel has found his passion.."
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"We still get compliments on the show.."
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"Everything went so smoothly, we're so grateful for all your help!"
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|| AV TECHNIK PRESS ||

Daniel Willis isn't the kind of guy to go halfway on anything. A young entrepreneur who launched AV Technik, LLC, a production services company, last October at the age of 26, he freely admits his business venture was a dive into the deep end without checking to see if there was water in the pool first.

"I looked around here in northern New England, and wanted to bring something different to the pro audio marketplace—something new, something better—that no one else was offering," he recalls today almost a year later. "As a start-up, most people wouldn't have gravitated to a line array system right out of the gate, let alone make the purchase without some work at hand. But I wanted to do it right, figuring that I'd either be a success or fall real hard while I was hopefully still young enough to get back up and recover."



Thanks to an advantageous financing package from QSC Audio Products, Inc., Willis was able to outfit his company with a QSC-dominated rig from stem-to-stern. Powered by PowerLight and PLX amplifiers and processed entirely within the digital realm courtesy of BASIS 922az technology, loudspeakers added to the AV Technik inventory included a dozen WideLine enclosures and eight 215SB subwoofers, plus eight ISIS 122M cabinets regularly used as monitors.

With his system and truck ready to roll, all Willis needed next were some clients. "I didn't have any guaranteed contracts at first, but work started to trickle in," he relates. "Fortunately, the rig exceeded everyone's expectations, and every show kept getting better and better. Pretty soon I was doing corporate events, theatre, and music ranging from rock to jazz, all the way from Boston to the tip of Northern Maine. People either thought I was crazy for bringing a rig like this to my market, or couldn't believe I was getting the performance I do out of such compact boxes. This system is so small I can do anything with it myself. I can set the rig up without help pretty easily; I regularly fly it with chain motors or on lifts, and build formidable groundstacks. It is definitely one-person manageable, and along with QSC's Venue Manager software, I can even monitor the whole rig right from my wireless laptop and make real-time adjustments on-the-fly anywhere in the house."



Willis' defining moment to date came this summer when he scored the contract for Portland, Maine's "Alive at Five" music series, which ran in the city's downtown district in Monument Square from July through August. Featuring A-list acts, he unleashed his WideLine rig in front of 4,500 people assembled to hear the rock band Better than Ezra, and even a crowd nearing 7,000 gathered to hear Boston Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo play guitar and sing during a lunchtime show prior to that evening's "Alive at Five" event.

"The system's versatility has been a major factor in making my business a success," Willis believes. "That and its performance. Some 'Alive at Five' bands and engineers were skeptical that such a diminutive rig would work with the size of the crowds we were getting, but they always wound up being blown away by its power, coverage, and clarity. The crowds loved it too, and the 'Alive at Five' producers even came up and told me that they wished they could have enlisted my services long before. Everyone has been happy, and of course I sleep a lot better these nights knowing that my line array gambit paid off. I couldn't have done it without the help and support of QSC."