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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Kevin Young 08/19/09 10:01 AM, 0 CommentsIt’s hardly rare to hear the words “major motion picture event” applied to a summer film. Visually stunning or not, whether it’s the latest Hollywood biopic, all-star comedy or action adventure, the phrase is attached to big budget summer flicks so permanently and casually that we hardly take notice. In the case of director Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s environ-epic “Home”, however, that phrase actually rings true… Produced by Luc Besson and backed by PPR, a French holding company that specializes in some… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/19/09 07:58 AM, 0 CommentsWorship Facilities Conference & Expo (WFX) has announced its distinguished awards program for WFX Charlotte, scheduled to take place October 27-30, 2009 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte. Both in their fourth year, the 2009 WFX New Product Awards and WFX Solomon Awards recognize outstanding achievements in church facilities and audio visual projects, as well as the multitude of products that make them happen. The 2009 WFX New Product Awards, presented by Church Production and Worship Facilities magazines, recognize… View this story
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
PSW Staff 08/18/09 03:13 PM, 0 CommentsPeabody Award-winning radio personality William “Bill” McGlaughlin has been named Keynote Speaker for the upcoming 127th AES Convention. The long-time host and music director of American Public Media’s popular Saint Paul Sunday public radio program McGlaughlin is a highly regarded broadcaster, educator, composer and conductor. In making the announcement, Convention Chair Agnieszka Roginska remarked, “While the focus of our conventions are largely technical in nature, we are delighted to provide our attendees with an opportunity to enjoy a discourse by… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/18/09 01:56 PM,Pop music superstar Gloria Estefan swept into the U.K. in late July, headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, on a concert tour that is intended to be her last, also covering Latin and South America plus European festival dates. Clair Brothers Audio is supplying the tour with both a Midas XL8 live performance system and Klark Teknik DN9696 hard disc recorder. By the time the tour arrived in Liverpool, FOH engineer Mark Dowdle had clocked… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/18/09 11:06 AM, 0 CommentsBritain’s Top of the Pops (TOTP) has been a BBC institution since 1964, broadcast weekly until 2006 and occasionally as one-off specials in the following years. The latest TOTP special, broadcast on BBC2 earlier in 2009, featured performances from Franz Ferdinand, Flo-Rida, Oasis, Take That, Tom Jones, James Morrison and more, live from BBC’s Studio 4, as part of this year’s Comic Relief charity fundraising special. Aside from the significance marked by convergence of these great artists, a TOTP revival… View this story
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Shannon Dunn 08/14/09 02:42 PM, 0 CommentsFor a regional sound company, as in any growing business with significant hardware costs, equipment purchases can really affect cash flow and strain the budget. The challenge is to make smart choices and stay within a set budget without compromising quality - a course being navigated by Spider Ranch Productions Owner/Founder Alex Moran. With a office/warehouse in South San Francisco and another warehouse at the original Spider Ranch in Pescadero, CA, Moran has taken this once small regional sound company… View this story
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Barry Rudolph 08/13/09 07:19 PM, 1 CommentThe single rack-space Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 is part of the Saffire line of Firewire audio/MIDI interfaces that all feature innovative control, routing and, for the 40, latency-free direct monitoring. The Focusrite Saffire 40 stands out from other manufacturer’s units chiefly because of its superior analog front end, solid digital conversion system, unique feature set, and the unit’s seemingly endless universality. With its flexible analog and digital I/O capabilities it acts as the “nexus” of your DAW studio. This is… View this story
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Bennett Prescott 08/12/09 03:56 PM, 1 CommentI’ve been trying to get my ugly mitts on a Soundcraft Vi6 since I first saw one at AES two years ago. Tom Der had one to spare this summer and shipped it down to Asbury Park, NJ where Jason Dermer’s company, TSL, will be putting it through its paces. Since I do a lot of work with Jason, I got assigned the duty of figuring out how the brightly lit control surface works, getting it set up, mixing the… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/12/09 10:46 AM, 0 CommentsEuphonix has announce that the global Euphonix client base is continuing to install additional broadcast consoles or make major upgrades to their existing studios. In Japan public broadcaster, NHK, installed two more Euphonix digital audio mixing systems bringing the count to seven Euphonix consoles owned by the international broadcasting company. NHK opted for the Euphonix S5 Fusion for post-production and broadcast capabilities in both their Osaka and Nagoya facilities. Prior to these installations, NHK had four Euphonix System 5 consoles… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/12/09 06:29 AM, 0 CommentsFront of House Engineer Kyle Chirnside is utilizing a Midas PRO6 digital console on the current world tour by Fall Out Boy. “I’ve always been a Midas guy,” states Chirnside. “Whenever I had a choice, I would have my XL4. But then I had the chance to test drive the XL8.” That opportunity came with an invitation visit Metallica FOH Engineer Big Mick Hughes during preparations for Fall Out Boy’s autumn 2008 tour of the UK and Europe. “We were… View this story
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