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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Kevin Young 06/05/13 04:29 PM,Since Paramore’s 2005 debut recording All We Know Is Falling, the Nashville-based, rock outfit’s popularity has grown substantially, garnering them multiple Grammy nominations as well as plum song placements in soundtracks for motion picture blockbusters like Twilight, platinum sales and a consistently growing, global audience. They’ve also developed a reputation for high-energy live shows, fueled as much by their musical chops as by a finely honed sense of what they and their audience need to hear in order for both… View this story
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Kevin Young 05/24/13 02:58 PM,“Ever since I drove my first drywall screw into my mother’s coffee table, I’ve had a passion for building things,” says Gregg Brunclik. Originally that manifested itself as a desire to build things with his hands, he adds, including the first loudspeakers his company, Clearwing Productions, offered to its clients. While that passion has evolved over time, it’s been integral to success of Clearwing since day one, and well before the company incorporated in 1985. Over time, the Milwaukee-based company… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Production • Feature • Production • Audio • Backline • Lighting • Staging • Video • Business • Engineer • Sound Reinforcement -
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Kevin Young 04/30/13 06:41 PM,The stage adaptation of War Horse has transfixed audiences around the world and garnered multiple Tony Awards, including Best Sound Design of a Play in 2011 for sound designer Christopher Shutt. While the recognition is satisfying, Shutt says, he tends to measure the success of his work by the average audience member’s impression of a show. “That they enjoy what we do, that’s the greatest pleasure; that and when the people I work with say, ‘You did a good job.’”… View this story
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Monday, April 08, 2013
Kevin Young 04/08/13 11:29 AM,Few have achieved the level of success of Alan Parsons as an engineer/producer, as well as a performing artist in his own right. After beginning his career as an assistant at Abbey Road Studios at age 19, he worked on iconic records such as Abbey Road and Let It Be before further cementing his reputation on projects with The Hollies, Al Stewart, Paul McCartney and Wings and, of course, with Pink Floyd as engineer on Dark Side of the Moon.… View this story
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Kevin Young 01/11/13 03:48 PM,Joe Jackson is best known to many for a string of breakthrough pop-rock/New Wave hits that began with 1979’s “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” but the British singer, songwriter, and composer (and five-time Grammy Award nominee) has explored a variety of musical styles over his stellar career. His latest tour is no exception; a series of live shows in the U.S. and Europe in late 2012 featured both reinterpretations of his own material and selections from his latest… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Blog • Production • Audio • Recording • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Monitoring • Processor • Sound Reinforcement -
Monday, November 19, 2012
Kevin Young 11/19/12 05:01 PM,Located a few hours north of Madrid, in the mountainous Castile-Leon region of Northern Spain, Burgos, is known as the “Land of Castles.” While Burgos is renowned for it’s history, it also has a reputation as a leading destination for corporate conventions. For some time, the city has sought to construct a truly modern venue equipped with the facilities necessary to host a wide variety of national and international congresses, concerts and theatre to meet the needs of both the… View this story
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Monday, October 08, 2012
Kevin Young 10/08/12 06:48 PM,Throughout his 38 years in pro audio, Mike Scarfe has always placed an emphasis on the leading edge, not only in terms of the services and equipment he provides through his Maryland-based company, MHA Audio, but by adapting the company’s business model dramatically over time. It’s a strategy that has fostered the company as a leading regional sound reinforcement provider in the North American market. When Scarfe established MHA Audio in 1983, the primary focus was audio production for high-profile… View this story
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Kevin Young 09/13/12 05:01 PM,If there’s one overarching force that has driven Stuart “Dinky” Dawson’s career it’s a never-ending search for quality. A relentless innovator, he cut his teeth mixing and designing systems for some of the most prominent acts of the past five decades. And though they came from a broad spectrum of genres, in every case his goal was the same - to consistently improve the methods and the tools he employed in an effort to deliver the highest quality reproduction of… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Study Hall • Concert • Mixer • Sound Reinforcement • System • Audio -
Monday, July 09, 2012
Kevin Young 07/09/12 03:16 PM,One of the primary drivers in Rob Nevalainen’s career as a monitor engineer and in the founding of his Coquitlam, British Columbia-based audio rental house Gearforce is a passion for perfecting both his own skills and the equipment he works with. “There’s always new technology available and new methods of doing the job, so learning is something you can never stop doing,” he states. Since he got his start in the Vancouver club scene roughly 25 years ago, the 45-year-old… View this story
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Kevin Young 05/03/12 11:24 AM,Since its founding in 1999, the annual Ultra Music Festival in Miami has become one of the largest festivals of its kind in North America – a showcase of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) spread over three days and 14 stages and, this year, boasting a record-breaking crowd of 165,000-plus. It reflects numerous reports that the EDM genre is a rapidly growing segment of the North American concert industry that in turn could present a valuable revenue source for professional audio… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Production • Feature • Production • Audio • Concert • Loudspeaker • Measurement • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer
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