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Friday, March 16, 2012
PSW Staff 03/16/12 10:44 AM,When an event like the Super Bowl comes to town, the sheer number of related events means that every major sound company, venue and entertainer will be extremely busy. Sound engineer Randy Wise found himself and his Lil’ Peanut Productions in great demand, and met the challenge of producing high quality audio under trying conditions by using Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing products. In addition to a constant stream of rentals and productions handled by Lil’ Peanut, Wise was… View this story
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
PSW Staff 03/14/12 10:09 AM,Late 2011 saw the annual finals of the Halıcı Computer Aided Composition Contest held at the Babylon venue in Istanbul. Ensuring that the finalists’ live performances sounded their best was a DiGiCo SD9 console. Sponsored by Halıcı, one of Turkey’s leading software companies, the contest has been run for the past 18 years. Open to all amateur and professional composers, the competition’s main aim is to give entrants the opportunity to showcase their songwriting talents to both the national and… View this story
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
PSW Staff 03/13/12 03:15 PM,Swedish rock band Takida has embarked on its sellout spring tour of Scandinavia, The Burning Heart, with Midas PRO2 consoles being used for FOH and monitors. Leading Scandinavian hire company Starlight, which purchased the PRO2s from Midas’ Swedish distributor Intersonic, is the first company in the region to use a dual system on a tour. “Overall the system is very stable, and I really feel I can fully trust it,” says monitor engineer Robert Egnelius. “The POPulation and MCA groups… View this story
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Monday, March 12, 2012
PSW Staff 03/12/12 11:45 AM,Academy and Grammy Award winning composer, musician and producer Trent Reznor, founder of the group Nine Inch Nails (NIN), has upgraded his private studio with a Solid State Logic Duality SE console. Reznor chose the Duality on advice from producer/engineer Alan Moulder while they were mixing the soundtrack for the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. They used the Duality to complete mixing the tracks that Trent composed with Atticus Ross, as well as the soundtrack’s two cover songs.… View this story
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PSW Staff 03/12/12 09:37 AM,Brussels-based Studio La Buanderie has recently installed a 16-channel API 1608 – a console that its owner and engineer, Pieter Apers, calls, “the holy grail in recording.” Apers purchased the fully-analog console through API dealer Amptec, who is credited with quickly bringing multiple 1608 consoles into Belgium. “I have always been an audio enthusiast, so I have known about API for a very long time,” said Apers. “But when I was choosing a console for my studio, I considered a… View this story
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
PSW Staff 03/08/12 03:43 PM,An Allen & Heath iLive digital system was selected by Biel PA company, Walther AG, in Switzerland to manage the International Lauberhorn Ski Races 2012. Now in its 82nd year, the annual event takes place in January, and includes a mix of slalom and downhill races staged over 3 days. The iLive system, comprising an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface, managed crowd announcements and ambient microphones at the start line, audio distribution to spectator seats along the slope, audio… View this story
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
PSW Staff 03/06/12 12:04 PM,For years, Los Angeles’ iconic rock radio station, KROQ, mused about creating their own intimate, in-studio listening space complete with a stage, studio lighting and amazing sound for their listeners. Recently they cleared out some cubicles and the sales office space-turned-nightclub—dubbed the Red Bull Sound Space—became a reality. With A-list band bookings, from inaugural shows with New Found Glory and Coldplay last fall, to subsequent shows with Angels & Airwaves, The Fray, Carmen, Falling in Reverse, Naked and Famous and… View this story
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Monday, February 27, 2012
PSW Staff 02/27/12 11:19 AM,Foo Fighters took home five statues at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards for an album produced entirely using a 32-channel API 1608 console. For its Wasting Light album, the band went back to basics, switching off the computers and tracking and mixing to tape via the all-analog API console, with the help of engineer James Brown and producer Butch Vig. In his acceptance speech after the band received the Best Rock Performance award, frontman Grohl said, “Rather than go to… View this story
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Friday, February 24, 2012
PSW Staff 02/24/12 11:05 AM,Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer, well known for his guitar-based ballads, utilized DiGiCo SD11 consoles and Neumann digital microphones during his end-of-year European tour. Sound company for the tour was Victory Tour Production, a long-term DiGiCo rental house. Victory Tour Productions provided a pair of SD11s and shared SD racks for the tour purchased via DiGiCo’s Danish distributor Soundware. DiGiCo supplied the AES42 interfaces. “We wanted to use Neumann digital microphones and DiGiCo is one of only two manufacturers who currently… View this story
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
PSW Staff 02/21/12 11:13 AM,From elegant social events to corporate gatherings and non-profit galas, New York City’s Gotham Hall never ceases to amaze. In order to match the prestige of the venue and its variety of functions, Eastern Stage Productions, located in Edgewood, New York, recently installed a Soundcraft Vi1 digital console. Gotham Hall, originally a landmark bank built in 1922 incorporating many Roman architectural features, was transformed in 2002 into a remarkable high-end ballroom. It has been used for a variety of events… View this story
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