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Friday, April 09, 2010
Mark Frink 04/09/10 04:44 PM, 1 CommentFrom the smallest van tours to the biggest worldwide touring attractions, digital consoles have established themselves for convenience, consistency and ease of workflow. The modern sound system has neatly divided itself into two major products: loudspeakers and consoles. Most analog consoles have the advantage these days of having been paid for, along with sonic quality and a familiar knob-per-function single-page control surface. However, any production manager can tell you the advantages of digital consoles: footprint, size, weight, repeatability, consistency and… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Poll • Consoles • Digital • Engineer • Mixer • Sound Reinforcement -
Thursday, August 27, 2009
PSW Staff 08/27/09 06:12 PM, 1 CommentThe Fillmore Charlotte, a 20,000-square-foot venue at the North Carolina Music Factory’s entertainment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Fourth Ward neighborhood, stays true to the tradition of the original Fillmore theaters. The venue, which opened this past June with Georgia acoustic rocker Corey Smith headlining, has the Fillmore’s trademark red velvet draperies, ornate chandeliers, custom lighting and vintage concert posters. The building, once a historic Charlotte manufacturing site, was reinvigorated by Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promoter, with Soundcraft… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Amplifier • Audio • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Installation • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Networking • Processor • Software • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Subwoofer • System -
Monday, August 24, 2009
PSW Staff 08/24/09 10:11 AM, 0 CommentsNovation is now shipping the new SL Mk II range of controller keyboards featuring Automap 3 technology. With seamless support for Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Cubase, Sonar, DP, RTAS, TDM, VST, AU plugins and software instruments, the new SL Mk II is the most powerful controller on the market for any modern recording and performance set up. The SL Mk II features over 70 controls including touch-sensitive faders and ringlet rotaries, backlit switches, and pads all tightly linked… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Product • Audio • Digital Audio Workstations • Digital • Interconnect • Processor • Remote • Studio -
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Bennett Prescott 08/12/09 04:56 PM, 1 CommentI’ve been trying to get my ugly mitts on a Soundcraft Vi6 since I first saw one at AES two years ago. Tom Der had one to spare this summer and shipped it down to Asbury Park, NJ where Jason Dermer’s company, TSL, will be putting it through its paces. Since I do a lot of work with Jason, I got assigned the duty of figuring out how the brightly lit control surface works, getting it set up, mixing the… View this story
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Friday, August 07, 2009
PSW Staff 08/07/09 07:01 AM, 0 CommentsThis summer, London-based sound engineer Harry Bishop has provided live audio systems for a variety of festivals in England, including the One Taste festival in Hyde Park and several festivals in association with Chai Wallahs, an organization dedicated to providing an eclectic blend of high-quality musical acts. Bishop is utilizing Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, which have helped him make the conversion from analog to digital during the hectic festival season. At the One Taste festival, Bishop deployed Soundcraft Vi6 consoles at… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Mixer • Monitoring • Software • Sound Reinforcement • Stage -
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
PSW Staff 07/28/09 11:38 AM, 0 CommentsEuphonix has announced native support for its Artist Series media controllers in Apple’s new Final Cut Studio. Apple has integrated Euphonix’ EuCon Ethernet control protocol into its flagship video suite, providing Artist Series users with hands-on control over Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Color and other applications in Final Cut Studio. Comprised of MC Transport, MC Control, MC Mix, and MC Color, the Euphonix family of Artist Series media controllers offers programmable soft keys, wheels, knobs, faders, trackballs and more… View this story
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Friday, July 24, 2009
PSW Staff 07/24/09 10:22 AM, 0 CommentsEighth Day Sound recently did double-duty on two major events, the Hot 97 Summer Jam at Giants Stadium in New York, and then moving south to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee. In both cases, the Highland Heights, Ohio-based sound reinforcement company provided four DiGiCo SD8 digital mixing consoles. At the annual Hot 97 Summer Jam, Eighth Day supported all acts, including Mary J. Blige, Jadakiss, T-Pain, Young Jeezy and Elephant Man, while at Bonnaroo, they handled the… View this story
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Monday, July 06, 2009
PSW Staff 07/06/09 07:14 AM, 0 CommentsBritish indie rockers Doves are currently headlining their first world tour in four years in support of their latest and fourth outing, Kingdom of Rust. Front of House Engineer Paul Ramsay specified a DiGiCo SD7 digital console for the U.K./Ireland bigger venue shows and a DiGiCo SD8 digital console for the smaller club tour in the U.S. Meanwhile, Monitor Engineer Ian Barton has been using an SD8 for the entire tour run. As a result of the band’s streamlined transportation… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Engineer • Monitoring • Processor • Software • Sound Reinforcement • Stage -
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
PSW Staff 06/17/09 01:56 AM, 0 CommentsSolid State Logic (SSL) has announced that the compact X-Desk, combining a 16 channel SSL SuperAnalogue summing mixer with a compact analogue audio hub, is now shipping. Small enough to be easily transported, X-Desk fulfills all the essentials of the audio mixing process, with typical SSL attention to detail and depth, including smooth 100mm faders, comprehensive artist & studio monitoring with Dim & Cut buttons, Stereo and Mono Aux sends, channel and Master Bus Inserts and accurate bar graph level… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Product • Analog • Concert • Studio -
Friday, June 12, 2009
Keith Clark 06/12/09 01:20 PM, 2 CommentsA recent poll here at ProSoundWeb asked, “The one thing I’d like to see the return of, or at least more of, in sound reinforcement is…” Response choices included tube electronics, rotary faders, loud/distorted audio, wired-only microphones, and wedges only (no IEM). Oh, and the winner: none of the above, which garnered almost 50 percent of the vote. Number two was tube electronics getting more than 20 percent, with number three being wired-only mics at about 15 percent. I was… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Recording • Blog • Audio Pundit • Opinion • Audio • Business • Engineer • System • Technician
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