All Access: Kid Rock ‘Best Night Ever' Tour

c2meworld.com: Kid Rock, who made quite a splash at the start of his 2013 Best Night Ever Tour by working out a deal with ticketing agencies that guaranteed $20 tickets for regular fans, played at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Wheatland, Calif., in early August.

“I’m mixing FOH on an Avid Venue D-Show Profile console, and it has served me well these past five years,” says front-of-house engineer Steve Cross, center, with Vic Wagner (AudioTech/Sound Image) at left and John “Haircut” Tompkins (Systems Engineer/Sound Image) at right. “Some plug-ins I make good use of are the Crane Song Phoenix and one or two of the Waves plug-ins.