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Monday, March 04, 2013
PSW Staff 03/04/13 03:11 PM,Loftland, a Wisconsin based pop rock quintet, recently gathering national attention on tour as the opening act for Christian rock band Manic Drive. The group, which has been performing together for the last five years, recently invested in their own touring rig featuring a D Line line array system from RCF. “When we were out with Manic Drive we came to appreciate touring with the same system every night,” explains Tanner Gibbs, who not only plays guitar for the band… View this story
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
PSW Staff 02/28/13 02:50 PM,The University of Utah’s Libby Gardner Hall is large enough to comfortably accommodate a 200-member choir, an 80-piece orchestra, and nearly 700 audience members. It is acoustically and aesthetically stunning, with a warm, rich reverb conveyed by wood panel walls arranged in a spectacular geometry. For years, the school struggled to provide the hall with sound reinforcement for spoken word, solos, and non-classical musical forms that matched the splendor of unamplified instruments. That struggle ended with the purchase of a… View this story
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Friday, February 22, 2013
PSW Staff 02/22/13 02:08 PM,Vintage Trouble, formed just three short years ago, are now the opening act for The Who’s “Quadrophenia and More” tour, already completing 25 shows with 12 more to go. 25-year veteran front of house engineer, Brian Anderson, is mixing the band using a new Yamaha CL5 digital audio console and Rio3224-D, provided by Sound Image (Nashville). Anderson’s credits include Blues Traveler, Spinal Tap, Hoobastank, Batlord, Lovehammers, Brother, just to name a few. He has also mixed a Cirque Productions show… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/22/13 11:13 AM,A selection of wide-dispersion loudspeaker models designed and built by British manufacturer Turbosound have been installed in one of Beirut’s most happening new nightclubs. “Ora is first and foremost an after-work and night bar, with great music and an amazing vibe,” explains club co-owner Vivian Shallop. “A crucial part of our club’s reputation is secured on the ambience of the environment. The quality of the sound is a huge part of creating that. “The other element is the design of… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/22/13 10:50 AM,The new Manna Methodist Church in Bundang New City, South Korea, has a seating capacity of 4,000, with around 10,000 worshippers attending each week. Services feature a live band, choir, organ and orchestra. As a result the audio system needed a high input channel count, as well as facilities to mix live audio for broadcast on its own Internet channel. The church consulted DiGiCo’s South Korean distributor Soundus Corporation, who supplied and installed an SD7 console at Front of House,… View this story
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
PSW Staff 02/21/13 03:26 PM,Founded in the early 80’s, Elio e Le Storie Tese (which loosely translates to “Elio and the Tense Situations”) is an Italian pop/rock band that evolved from the underground Zappa-esque “Rock demenziale” scene of the late 70’s. The band’s music is a blend of different genres, where cheeky and often insolent lyrics contrast sharply with complex musical arrangements. Claudio Scavazza, long-time PA technician for Elio, worked with audio rental company Sonique on the systems approach for the band’s latest tour,… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/21/13 02:43 PM,Allen & Heath has introduced a brand new product to its range, the ICE-16, a 16 In/16 Out audio interface allowing performers and audio engineers to easily capture high quality multi-track recordings direct to a USB drive or interface to a computer. Fitted into a compact 1U rack design, ICE-16 is capable of studio quality interfacing, converting and bi-directional streaming of 16 channels over high-speed USB or FireWire at 24 bit, 96kHz resolution. Alternatively, 16 channels can be simultaneously recorded… View this story
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
PSW Staff 02/19/13 06:14 PM,Extron Electronics introduces the VNR 100, a single channel recorder that digitally records and plays back high-definition computer graphics, video, audio, and data streamed in VN-Matrix systems (larger picture below). It can simultaneously record and play back streaming content. This provides flexibility for recording and playback workflows and can help increase the duty cycle of expensive source and presentation equipment. The VNR 100 presents a scalable solution that can be deployed in single source or multi-source applications. “Recognizing that recording… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/19/13 06:08 PM,Sound engineer John Delf, has exchanged the Soundcraft Vi1 he has been using on club duty with fast emerging London girl trio Stooshe, for the larger Vi6 for the edgy soul/hip hop of Plan B (Ben Drew) on the arena circuit. Supplied as part of a complete PA package by Dave Shepherd’s BCS Audio, the UK arena shows have been split into two distinct sections, featuring Plan B’s 2010 album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks in the same track order,… View this story
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Dan Laveglia 02/19/13 06:10 PM,The idea of setting up a complicated audio system every day, in constantly changing venues and in the time limitations of a few hours is daunting, to say the least. Yet it’s the inevitable reality of touring sound. Thousands of pounds of hardware, miles of cable and hundreds of connections are required for system operation. All of this must be done in a timely manner, to allow for the “black art” of tuning the rig and mixing the music. Multipin… View this story
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