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Monday, October 05, 2009
Keith Clark
10/05/09 03:24 PM,
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I recently had the opportunity to attend a portion of Robert Scovill’s latest “Complete Front of House Engineer” seminar and workshop, held at the beautiful Church On The Rock in St. Peters, Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. The group of 30-plus attendees represented quite a wide range of folks in terms of experience and expertise, yet it didn’t seem to matter as Robert provided practical techniques, ideas and insights gained over his career as a multi-TEC Award winning live…
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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09/02/09 06:41 AM,
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Allen & Heath is shipping a host of new interface cards for the iLive and iLive-T Series digital consoles, including the RAB2 remote audio interface card host; the Mini Multi-Out Card for ADAT, Aviom, iDR 8-bus and Hearbus; the EtherSound Network Card; Allen & Heath’s proprietary ACE (Audio and Control over Ethernet) Card for 64 channel bi-directional link; and the new MADI 64 Channel Multi-link Card. RAB2 is a remote audio card, enabling iLive digital mixing systems to work with…
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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09/01/09 08:31 AM,
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The current tour by Green Day sees the band utilizing Telefunken Elektroakustic M80 dynamic microphones for all vocals and various instruments, while at Ocean Way Recording to record the album “21st Century Breakdown,” all of Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals were recorded with his new Telefunken U-47 and all of Mike Dirnt’s vocals used the new company’s new ELA M 251. Both large diaphragm tube microphones are manufactured in the meticulous reproduction of masterpiece microphones of the past. “The M80s are…
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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08/31/09 11:17 AM,
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The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour, which culminated in August with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdel Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, was supported by sound reinforcement courtesy of Sound Image of Escondido, California, which provided JBL VERTEC line arrays. The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour reunited one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s, whose 1995 release Tragic Kingdom has sold more than 16 million copies to date. In recent years, No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani…
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Friday, August 28, 2009
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08/28/09 11:06 AM,
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In Howard Community College’s Smith Theater in Columbia, Maryland, a typical day might include everything from theater and film to lectures and meetings, with the occasional live concert thrown in as well. With inputs ranging from a single voice up to 56 inputs and outputs that might be mono, stereo or full surround sound, it was critical that this multifunctional space have a sound system with maximum flexibility and sonic clarity. The college chose an Allen & Heath iLive-112 digital…
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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08/27/09 06:12 PM,
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The 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…
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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08/25/09 03:24 PM,
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The Christian Life Assembly (CLA) Church in Langley, British Columbia is a tech-savvy multi-campus congregation that offers both media streaming and podcast downloads of its services from its website. When the church began an extensive upgrade of its facilities last year, a new sound reinforcement system for its 1,500-seat sanctuary was high on its list of priorities. The new system is headed by three EAW KF730 compact line arrays, SB730 compact line array subwoofers and SB1000z large-format subwoofers supporting program…
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08/25/09 08:16 AM,
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The Southern Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, BC (Canada), recently hosted a live performance by legendary comic Bill Cosby on a Friday night and a high-energy rock concert called “Hot Summer Nights” the following Saturday, with both performances handled by the same sound reinforcement system headed by Martin Audio line arrays, loudspeakers, monitors, amplifiers and processors. Local audio provider Northwest Global Entertainment of Kelowna, BC, was confident in the capabilities of the system to provide premium audio quality for the…
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
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08/20/09 09:51 AM,
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The acclaimed seminar series “The Complete Front of House Engineer” is back for 2009, scheduled to be presented in partnership with Church On The Rock in St. Peters, Missouri, beginning September 14, 2009. The Complete FOH Engineer seminars were formed in 2000 by 6-time TEC Award winning engineer Robert Scovill, and since that time, he has developed the series into a tour de force of workshops aimed at engineers and mixers who enter with a wide breadth of experience looking…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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08/18/09 02:56 PM,

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Pop music superstar Gloria Estefan swept into the U.K. in late July, headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, on a concert tour that is intended to be her last, also covering Latin and South America plus European festival dates. Clair Brothers Audio is supplying the tour with both a Midas XL8 live performance system and Klark Teknik DN9696 hard disc recorder. By the time the tour arrived in Liverpool, FOH engineer Mark Dowdle had clocked…
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