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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Mark Frink 12/31/08 12:35 PM, 0 CommentsThis year is the tipping point for digital consoles in regional and festival sound reinforcement. Discussions of sound quality aside, the benefits of digital consoles – consistency, repeatability, recall and automation – force users to adopt the new way and the advantage it brings to live events where the same console is not dragged from one gig to the next. Vendors contemplating the purchase of a console must ask themselves who will be using their new mixing board, who the… View this story
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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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PSW Staff 12/23/08 10:44 AM, 0 CommentsAt the recent Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavík-based Exton provided effective and powerful sound reinforcement for five festival venues using self-powered systems from Meyer Sound. Referred to by Rolling Stone magazine as “the hippest long weekend on the annual music festival calendar,” the five-day music showcase introduces cutting-edge acts from Iceland and across the globe, including this year’s CSS from Brazil; Junior Boys and Crystal Castles from Canada; U.K.-based Robots in Disguise; and White Denim and Boy Crisis from the U.S. As… View this story
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Monday, December 22, 2008PSW Staff 12/22/08 11:20 AM, 0 CommentsL-ACOUSTICS’ Portuguese distributor Avitel has installed a dV-DOSC system into the main, 1,0000-capacity multipurpose hall at the Casino Figueira in the city of Figueira da Foz. The casino, which has recently been renovated, is more than 100 years old and features some historic frescoes on its domed ceiling. The main front of house system consists of six L-ACOUSTICS dV-DOSC line source cabinets and two dV-SUB subwoofers per side, each hang being driven by four L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplifed controller racks. Further… View this story
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Wednesday, November 12, 200811/12/08 02:48 PM, 0 CommentsSweetwater Audio used the Studer Vista 8 console for the live broadcast of the 60th Annual EMMY Awards telecast on Sunday, September 21 at the NOKIA Live Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Additionally, ATK/Audiotek deployed JBL Professional VERTEC line arrays for the sound reinforcement system in the arena. The EMMY Awards were broadcast live on ABC Television Network in 5.1 surround sound using the Studer Vista 8 console and JBL LSR4300 studio monitors. The team at Sweetwater operated out of… View this story
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Thursday, January 10, 200801/10/08 05:37 PM, 0 CommentsMiami, FL – January 2008 Providing live sound reinforcement for national artists is both exciting and extremely challenging work—and it tends to lean more toward the challenging side when the venue is a big metal building. Such was the case for DB Sound and Lighting Systems of Florida when they were contracted to provide sound for a November 30th, 2007 Montgomery Gentry concert at the Turner Agri-Civic Center (also known as “Turner Center”) in Arcadia, FL. With its all metal… View this story
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