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Friday, August 28, 2009
PSW Staff 08/28/09 03:58 PM, 0 CommentsAPI has announced the three winners of this year’s Visionary Scholarship, which is designed to foster creativity and excellence for the pro audio industry’s next generation of sound engineers. The scholarship is available to students enrolled at universities and schools that prominently feature the API Vision stereo/surround analog console, the Legacy Plus console or the 1608 console as a cornerstone of their students’ education. API offers it’s congratulations to this year’s winners: Alex Hug, Jacob Lansky and Jacob Merkin. Each… View this story
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wayne Wadhams 08/27/09 03:35 PM, 1 CommentThere is no way to say for sure what specific elements, sounds or aspects of a record make it a HIT. Yet every hit has a few key things that grab our attention and make it memorable. Reviewing a long list of hits, we find that many of the same or analogous elements work over and over, in their separate contexts, to create their charisma. Some of these have to do with the song itself, others with the way it… View this story
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
PSW Staff 08/13/09 02:59 PM, 0 CommentsRat Sound Systems is the sound company for the current concert tour by Blink-182, providing its new L-ACOUSTICS K1 loudspeakers and subwoofers, as well as all other audio gear and support. The equipment complement includes 24 L-ACOUSTICS K1 and 8 K1 subwoofers as well as 24 KUDO, 24 SB28, 8 Rat Sound Supersubs and 12 L-ACOUSTICS dV-Dosc. All are powered by L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplifiers. Blink-182 is back on the road for the first time after their recent four year hiatus,… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Slideshow • Amplifier • Analog • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Line Array • Monitoring • Processor • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer • System -
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
PSW Staff 08/11/09 04:04 PM, 0 CommentsSummer weather finally came to the Midwest last weekend, just in time this year’s Lollapalooza at Grant Park in downtown Chicago. But temperatures in the 90s with high humidity did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the all-star line-up or the crowds that packed the park each night. At least two of the headline artists featured at Lollapalooza utilized Shure wireless microphone systems for their live performances. On the rainy opening night, Depeche Mode slogged through the mud circa Woodstock… View this story
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
PSW Staff 08/06/09 05:58 AM, 0 CommentsEAW is now shipping the DX1208 DSP matrix mixer, designed to meet a wide variety of installation and commercial sound applications. “The DX1208 was introduced at InfoComm 2009 in June, and it received an overwhelmingly positive response from contractors and system integrators,” stated EAW Commercial Product Manager Dave Raneses. “Six weeks later, we are shipping the product, and we look forward to meeting the demand that has spread since InfoComm.” The 12-input, 8-output, 1U-rack-space DX1208 offers eight inputs are mic/line… View this story
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
PSW Staff 08/05/09 01:45 PM, 0 CommentsiZotope has collaborated with English electronic band Underworld for the latest release of their popular iDrum app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. This new app features tracks adapted from all of Underworld albums in celebration of the release of the band’s full catalog on iTunes and in conjunction with a concert available to stream on the iPhone and iPod touch. “iDrum Underworld Edition has been carefully designed as a completely new medium of musical expression where users can interact… View this story
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Friday, July 31, 2009
PSW Staff 07/31/09 04:16 PM, 0 CommentsUniversal Audio has announced the release of the Empirical Labs FATSO powered plug-in for its popular line of UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Cards for Mac and PC. The original EL7 FATSO hardware’s design and creative feature set gives users the warm sound of magnetic recording tape, Class-A transformers, and tube circuits. The FATSO Jr. & Sr. Powered Plug-In for the UAD-2 recreates these distinctive sounds with great accuracy, and can be downloaded for $299 from Universal Audio’s Online Store. The FATSO… View this story
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
PSW Staff 07/30/09 05:12 PM, 0 CommentsReflecting the exponential growth of live sound as an increasingly significant component in the health of the pro audio industry, 127th AES Convention Live Sound Co-Chairs Henry Cohen and Mac Kerr have devised a broad program of critical events designed to keep the “Road Warriors” fully on top of their game. Presentations run the gamut from an assessment of the White Spaces issue to innovations for meeting the increasingly urgent need for compliance with the Green Movement. Live sound programs… View this story
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Monday, July 27, 2009
PSW Staff 07/27/09 03:28 PM, 0 CommentsThis year’s iTunes Festival, relocated to The Roundhouse in North London, features more than 60 artists playing live throughout July, with the wide range of talent including commercial mainstays such as Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol, acoustic performers like Newton Faulkner, quirky performance artists with wide dynamic ranges (like Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan), and some good old fashioned R&B. Sound reinforcement for the festival is headed by Martin Audio W8LM mini line arrays, joined by a range… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Processor • Software • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Subwoofer -
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
PSW Staff 07/15/09 08:37 AM, 0 CommentsFor the second summer in a row, the Mayhem Tour, featuring heavy metal artists, is utilizing ribbon-loaded Versarray 212 line arrays from Peavey Electronics. The Versarray 212 line arrays are supporting all performances on the Jägermeister Mobile Stage—a custom-built, traveling foldout stage housed in a 44-foot trailer—including metal heavyweights Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid and more as the festival crisscrosses the U.S. from July through August. “The Peavey Versarray 212 is a big leap forward for sound reinforcement technology,”… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Processor • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Subwoofer • System
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