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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
PSW Staff 12/30/08 04:01 PM, 0 CommentsTouring in support of their most recent album, Accelerate, R.E.M. selected Oxnard, California-based Rat Sound to handle sound reinforcement requirements, with Brett Eliason serving as FOH engineer and George Squiers handling monitor mix honors. Clair Brothers sublet two Midas XL8 digital mixing consoles (for house and monitors) to Rat Sound for the tour. “We pushed for the Midas consoles,” Eliason notes, adding, “Having the Midas preamps at the front end and a true 24-bit, 96 kHz digital resolution were the… View this story
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Dave Dermont 12/24/08 08:43 AM, 1 CommentGreetings and welcome to my new ProSoundWeb Blog. My name is Dave Dermont. Some of you may know me as one of the moderators on the ProSoundWeb forums and author of the occasional article in Live Sound International. This is a blog of the day-to-day trials and tribulations of someone working in the sound reinforcement jungle of night clubs, street fairs, festivals, and corner bars, with an occasional peek at some higher profile gigs from the viewpoint of a lowly… View this story
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Nort Johnson 12/23/08 11:23 AM, 2 CommentsIn 1976, I was hired on the local crew to pitch and bail scaffolding and deck for my first stadium show at the historic Comiskey Park in Chicago. It was a July 8 truck tip and the day of the show was July 10. The temperature hovered around 100 degrees for the duration. We erected the monster in the left center field bleachers over the seats where Babe Ruth and Nellie Fox used to tear the hides off of well-greased… View this story
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Keith Clark 12/22/08 09:20 AM, 0 CommentsRadial Engineering has announced the launch of Forest Audio, a new division of Radial Engineering that will focus on top-end audio devices for studio and live touring. The division’s first product release is the Forest Audio F15 instrument preamplifier, a Class-A device with a unique feed-forward design that eliminates the use of circuit stabilizing negative feedback in the DI section, boosting sonic clarity. The F15 also includes several features unique to instrument preamps, including remote phantom powering for microphones, drag… View this story
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Mark Frink 12/10/08 02:35 PM, 0 CommentsGetting the call to mix monitors for Jessica Simpson earlier this year was my surprise birthday gift from FOH engineer Monty Lee Wilkes. Following a cross-country flight early the next morning, I was programming a Yamaha PM5D at Center Staging in Burbank for the debut performance of Jessica’s country music show at Country Thunder that weekend in Wisconsin. Jessica is as beautiful inside as out, a hard-working girl from Texas whose gift to audio is a dedication to her craft… View this story
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Monday, September 29, 2008
PSW Staff 09/29/08 11:14 PM, 0 CommentsEight years after Linkin Park released their first CD, the band has embarked again on the Projekt Revolution Tour. This time around, monitor engineer Kevin “Tater" McCarthy has taken along the new Yamaha DSP5D Expander for use in conjunction with a PM5D monitor console. “I’m using the DSP5D for an extra 28 inputs and two extra outputs that Linkin Park required for this leg of the tour,” states McCarthy. “I was first introduced to the PM5D almost four years ago… View this story
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