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Monday, July 26, 2010
Dave Dermont 07/26/10 06:34 PM, 2 CommentsThere are advantages to getting older. Years of learning something new at every gig add up to that thing we call experience. You remember how well the first Soundcraft console you ever used responded to your touch. You recall, despite its simple interface and lack of things to tweak, how great the reverb of a Lexicon PCM-60 sounded. Another advantage to getting older is that the gear you lusted after as a youngster becomes affordable. The downside of this can… View this story
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wayne Wadhams 08/27/09 04:35 PM, 1 CommentThere is no way to say for sure what specific elements, sounds or aspects of a record make it a HIT. Yet every hit has a few key things that grab our attention and make it memorable. Reviewing a long list of hits, we find that many of the same or analogous elements work over and over, in their separate contexts, to create their charisma. Some of these have to do with the song itself, others with the way it… View this story
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
PSW Staff 08/13/09 03:59 PM, 0 CommentsRat Sound Systems is the sound company for the current concert tour by Blink-182, providing its new L-ACOUSTICS K1 loudspeakers and subwoofers, as well as all other audio gear and support. The equipment complement includes 24 L-ACOUSTICS K1 and 8 K1 subwoofers as well as 24 KUDO, 24 SB28, 8 Rat Sound Supersubs and 12 L-ACOUSTICS dV-Dosc. All are powered by L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplifiers. Blink-182 is back on the road for the first time after their recent four year hiatus,… View this story
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Monday, August 10, 2009
PSW Staff 08/10/09 07:56 AM, 2 CommentsWhen planning the upgrade from analog to digital for its Studio 12 in Montreal, CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public broadcasters, found that a 48-channel Solid State Logic C200 HD digital console with two SSL MORSE Stage Boxes was just what they needed for the new all-digital mission of the network. The C200 HD will be used for live to Pro Tools production and post production for radio and television presentations of music performances. “We needed to replace our old analogue console,… View this story
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Friday, August 07, 2009
Mike Wireless 08/07/09 10:49 AM, 2 CommentsThe Shure UHF-R currently reigns as the most widely rented and specified wireless microphone system. It’s been on the market for four years and has garnered legions of fans. Let’s look at some of the features and technical specifications that make the UHF-R system tick. Components Receiver options include the single-channel UR4S and the dual-channel UR4D. Most often seen, of course, is the dual-channel variant. Three transmitters are available, including the UR1 standard bodypack, UR1M micro bodypack and UR2 handheld.… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Blog • Mike Wireless • Opinion • Product • Review • Audio • Installation • Microphone • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • Stage -
Friday, July 31, 2009
PSW Staff 07/31/09 01:09 PM, 0 CommentsDigital Services Recording Studio enjoys a long history of providing a professional recording environment to top artists as varied as The Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, the Houston Symphony, Destiny’s Child and Chamillionaire, to name a few. The studio recently replaced their aging SSL 6000 series console with a new 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality console. The Duality gives the studio SSL’s signature SuperAnalogue sound, while providing on console control of the Pro Tools system. “The studio got a lot of… View this story
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
PSW Staff 07/29/09 08:08 AM, 0 CommentsThe Norwegian Parliament in Oslo is using a large number of BSS Audio Soundweb devices for different applications, covering meeting rooms, hearing rooms and the main parliament assembly auditorium. The plenary chamber recently saw a major upgrade to a Soundweb London system, relieving the older Soundweb original system from its duties, which it has been performing since 2002. The new system, installed by Norwegian BSS Audio distributor LydRommet AS, includes four BLU-320 break-in / out devices in an 8 x… View this story
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Monday, July 27, 2009
PSW Staff 07/27/09 04:28 PM, 0 CommentsThis year’s iTunes Festival, relocated to The Roundhouse in North London, features more than 60 artists playing live throughout July, with the wide range of talent including commercial mainstays such as Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol, acoustic performers like Newton Faulkner, quirky performance artists with wide dynamic ranges (like Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan), and some good old fashioned R&B. Sound reinforcement for the festival is headed by Martin Audio W8LM mini line arrays, joined by a range… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Concert • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Processor • Software • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Subwoofer -
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
PSW Staff 07/22/09 09:19 AM, 0 CommentsGreen Day’s recently released 8th studio album, titled “21st Century Breakdown”, involved renowned producer Butch Vig and Green Day’s in-house engineer Chris Dugan, and traveling with Dugan and the band from its Studio 880 in Oakland to Holllywood’s Ocean Way was a rack of Apogee AD and DA-16X’s and Big Ben for connection to Pro Tools HD. When tracking began, Vig and Dugan set up for a shootout of two tracking possibilities; record to analog tape then dump into Pro… View this story
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Monday, July 20, 2009
PSW Staff 07/20/09 07:56 AM, 0 CommentsK-array self-powered live performance loudspeakers, available in the U.S. from Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, made their U.S. debut at Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over an 11-day period leading up to the July 4 holiday weekend. The event’s principal production provider, Clearwing Productions, put the K-array systems to use at JoJo’s Martini Lounge, one of 11 stages at the lakefront festival park, in addition to integrating a complement of Sennheiser evolution 900 and 600 Series wired… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • News • Audio • Concert • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer
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