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Thursday, July 07, 2011
PSW Staff 07/07/11 10:07 AM, 1 CommentA Studer Vista 5 SR digital production console is the FOH console of choice for Josh Groban’s 2011 “Straight To You” world tour and FOH engineer Mickey Beck. The console, part of the sound reinforcement package provided by leading PA company Maryland Sound International (MSI), “Was the only one that could provide the sophisticated capabilities that this tour demanded, including the ability to operate in a 96 kHz redundant configuration to match the 96 kHz recording of the tour, a… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/07/11 08:25 AM, 0 CommentsScottish band GlasVegas is currently on a global tour with a compact Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system managing its FOH audio. The band has already visited an assortment of venues across Europe and the USA, and is playing at many of the international summer festivals, including a headline spot on the John Peel stage at Glastonbury. FOH engineer Steve Pattison has previously used various iLive systems for bands such as Alphabeat, Ellie Goulding and Royksopp. For this tour,… View this story
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Monday, July 04, 2011
PSW Staff 07/04/11 11:44 AM,This June, for the 10th year in a row, well over 60,000 excited music fans descended upon Manchester, Tennessee, for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival, featuring dozens of performing artists, including Eminem, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, The Black Keys, Widespread Panic and many more. Backstage, many of the festival’s acts were asked to lay down tracks in a purpose-built recording studio, outfitted with the help of Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center.… View this story
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Friday, July 01, 2011
PSW Staff 07/01/11 03:26 PM, 0 CommentsAs the audio director for Merlefest, one of the largest traditional bluegrass music hoedowns in the U.S., industry veteran and SE Systems co-owner Cliff Miller has been on the scene for all of the fest’s 24 years. Recently, SE added a pair of the new DiGiCo SD10 consoles and two DiGiCo SD racks with HMA Optics—their first DiGiCo purchase—to the company’s touring stock. Miller was looking for a couple of new digital consoles that could do 96 kHz, when DiGiCo… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/01/11 09:32 AM, 0 CommentsA plethora of Midas digital consoles were again used across the Glastonbury festival this year, as RG Jones supplied XL4s with XL88 matrix mixer at front of house for the Pyramid Stage, where they were used by acts including BB King, Wu-Tang Clan and Plan B. Many of the other acts on the Pyramid stage chose to bring their own Midas digital desks with them, including Biffy Clyro, Paolo Nutini, Morrissey and Pendulum, who each brought their own PRO6 for… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/01/11 08:14 AM,Precise Corporate Staging (PCS) of Tempe, Arizona upped its L-Acoustics product count in late-May with the addition of 24 KUDO enclosures, 24 SB28 subs and six LA-RAK touring amplifier racks. The systems were purchased, in part, to accommodate the busy summer festival schedule of PCS’ new entertainment division, which this year deploys systems and staging for Country USA and Rock USA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and the week-long Buffalo Chip in Sturgis, South Dakota. “With 30 V-DOSC already in our inventory,… View this story
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
PSW Staff 06/30/11 05:02 PM, 0 CommentsWith nine vocalists on stage performing directly in front of the orchestra, no visible microphones allowed on the performers, a mixture of classical music, opera, and selections from musicals, and the need for both live sound reinforcement and recording, veteran sound engineer Lars Wern had his hands full with the recent “Epiphany” concert in Sweden. The annual concert, organized by the Swedish Television Company SVT and Swedish radio broadcaster SR, was held in Stockholm’s Berwaldhallen concert hall, home of the… View this story
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Greg DeTogne 06/22/11 11:40 AM,For the loyal fans of Adele, the time has come for the pop chanteuse’s name to be added to a pantheon of British soul divas like Amy Winehouse, Sade, Annie Lennox, and Dusty Springfield. Currently crisscrossing North America in support of her sophomore album 21, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins indeed deserves such a distinction, based upon the sheer power of her own voice and honors such as two 2009 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal… View this story
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Monday, December 27, 2010
PSW Staff 12/27/10 12:08 PM, 1 CommentMore than 50 years ago, five New Jersey municipalities - Englewood, Leonia, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park and Teaneck - donated land to the County of Bergen with the intention of creating a central commons for art, sports and other leisure activities. After years of hard work, the vision to turn what was once a landfill into a beautiful park is now a reality. Dubbed “Central Park West,” the new 138-acre Overpeck County Park recently added a complete sound reinforcement system… View this story
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
PSW Staff 02/10/10 08:10 AM, 0 CommentsA Metric Halo ULN-2 +DSP FireWire interface with mic-pre, A/D/A converter, and digital signal processing capabilities, forms the basis of the home vocal production studio of female vocalist JES, singer of Motorcycle’s “As the Rush Comes,” which held the number one position on Billboard’s “Hot Dance Airplay” chart and is the fourth most-played dance song of the decade. The Metric Halo ULN-2 +DSP played a big role on the upcoming new release from JES entitled “High Glow” (Black Hole Recordings,… View this story
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