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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Greg DeTogne 05/09/13 05:19 PM,The Black Crowes have returned with this year’s Lay Down With Number 13 tour, emerging triumphantly fit and in full fighting form from an “indefinite” hiatus announced in April, 2010 that put performances on hold in the U.S. after the band played San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium later that year. Now, with the band’s fourth live album, Wiser for the Time, released in March of this year as a digital download and 4-record vinyl set, timing was never better for the… View this story
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Friday, April 26, 2013
PSW Staff 04/26/13 08:43 AM,For a tour stop on the current Gary Allan concert tour at the American Music Venue in Lancaster, PA, Bauder Audio of Horsham, PA supplied NEXO GEO S12 line arrays. The tour is also carrying a Yamaha PM5000 console, supplied by Sound Image of Nashville. Specifically, the system included 24 NEXO GEO S12s over eight RS18 Ray Subs were all powered and processed with NXAMP4X4 amplifiers. “Besides the fact that the GEO S12 sounds great, it is easy to set… View this story
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
James L. Moody 04/11/13 12:43 PM,An excerpt from Concert Lighting Techniques, Art and Business, 3rd Edition, published by Focal Press. While doing the layout and color chart, you must be thinking ahead to how the cues will work with your plan. Does the layout give you the degree of flexibility you want? Does the color chart work as a palette in harmony with the music? A separate design skill now enters the picture. The designer must take the raw data from the light plot and… View this story
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Monday, April 01, 2013
PSW Staff 04/01/13 10:33 AM,Billed as the world’s largest live entertainment and exhibition event, the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo—with rodeo and concert events known as RodeoHouston—is also one of Texas’ largest charities having contributed more than $330 million to the state’s youth since 1932. This year, the three-week rodeo and concert series at 72,000-seat Reliant Stadium was heard via the largest contingent of L-Acoustics K1 arrays ever deployed, provided by LD Systems of Houston. The concert list included a long list of… View this story
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Ken DeLoria 03/28/13 11:49 PM,This is the first in a series of articles about how to safely rig, fly, suspend, attach, or otherwise elevate loudspeakers and associated sound equipment above the level that gravity intends; i.e. the ground. The information we’ll be presenting is equally applicable to professionals who are touring or working with rental systems - and to those who are engaged in permanent installations. While the means, methods, and techniques may vary a bit from rental to permanent install work, the principals… View this story
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Friday, March 22, 2013
PSW Staff 03/22/13 10:32 AM,More than 60,000 fans recently converged on Estadio Azteca for the Mexico City stop on David Guetta’s “Nothing but the Beat” world tour, with Audio Systems del Norte was providing sound for the event, including Adamson Systems Energia E15 line arrays. System tuning for the event was handled by SonoTribe Audio Consultants, with technical support provided by Showco Mexico, the local distributor for Adamson products. “This was the first time that David Guetta’s crew had used the E15s,” notes Mauricio… View this story
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PSW Staff 03/22/13 10:21 AM,Hanan, an Israel-born guitarist, has built his music career from the ground up, sharing the stage and studio with renowned acts such as Jennifer Hudson, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Jordan, Keyshia Cole, Anthony Hamilton, Gladys Knight, Kanye West, Nas, BB King, and Roy Hargrove, among many others. The multi-talented musician plays guitar, bass, keys, drums and nearly any other instrument he can get his hands on. He’s currently the lead guitarist on the Alicia Keys “Set The World On Fire” international… View this story
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
PSW Staff 03/19/13 10:51 AM,Following a successful tour with the three-time Grammy Award winning Zac Brown Band, SES (Special Event Services) has increased its inventory of Martin Audio MLA loudspeakers. Asked about the decision, SES spokesperson Michael Brammer responded, “The addition of 24 MLA, 24 MLX, and 48 MLA Compact enclosures gives us more flexibility in creating system configurations, and the ability to serve multiple tours with MLA at the same time. MLA is without question one of the finest sounding PA systems in… View this story
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Greg DeTogne 03/14/13 02:50 PM,Elton John’s Million Dollar Piano is exactly that: A singularly stunning instrument that successfully marries technology and art, and cost just that much to create. As the name of the legendary performer’s latest headlining act to take up residence at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace, The Million Dollar Piano runs two full hours, expanding beyond the core band heard during The Red Piano – his previous Caesars show – with a pair of cellists that give added verve to the… View this story
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Friday, February 01, 2013
PSW Staff 02/01/13 09:41 AM,New Jersey-based Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, who first achieved prominence in the mid-1970s and are still touring nationally, recently performed at The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ with ACIR Professional (Egg Harbor Township, NJ) supplying audio production and backline. The audio system included a new Yamaha CL5 digital console with two Rio3224s, which ACIR co-owner Ed DiBona used to provide the monitor mix. “The console sounds great, and I really like the color coded channel strips,”… View this story
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