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Thursday, November 19, 2009
PSW Staff
11/19/09 11:55 AM,
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The Tony Award-winning Old Globe in San Diego, California is currently hosting the hit play “SAMMY” based upon the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., the production’s sound design by John Shivers and David Patridge incorporating Yamaha digital consoles. Masque Sound (East Rutherford, New Jersey) provided elements of the sound system for Shivers and Patridge. “It’s always a pleasure to work with clients as skilled and as organized as John and David,” states Scott Kalata of Masque Sound. “They…
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Mark Frink
11/06/09 05:37 PM,
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A recent trip to Broadway in the Big Apple took me to five of the season’s top shows to see what equipment is used when the stakes are high. Literally million dollar shows, successful musicals often gross over a million dollars a week. Next February’s off-again, on-again Spiderman, sees songwriter U2’s start-up costs estimated at around $40 million. Broadway sound designs must provide clear, crisp, detailed sound to every seat in the house for patrons who pay average prices approaching…
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Kevin Young
10/22/09 12:25 PM,
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“I always knew I wanted to work in the music industry, but I never wanted to be a musician,” says UK-based Sound Designer Mick Potter. “When I was 13 or 14 I always could name who produced and mixed a record. I was always interested in that side of it. The main people I could name in theater, in my teens, were orchestrators and sound designers.” It was this interest, the 45-year-old, Yorkshire-born Potter explains, that initially prompted his desire…
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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06/23/09 09:29 AM,
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At 2009 InfoComm in Orlando, Renkus-Heinz, worldwide distributor of Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG) products, hosted the debut of the new AFMG A/D-D/A converter, the 8-input EASERA Gateway x.8. The x.8 is the product of a collaboration between AFMG and German hardware designers DSPECIALISTS, and is designed to complement AFMG’s EASERA and SysTune audio measurement software tools to provide sound system engineers with a complete PA system tuning package. The Gateway x.8 is the first 8-input/2-output converter specifically designed for…
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Friday, May 01, 2009
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05/01/09 09:19 AM,
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To ensure optimum audio quality while keeping the technology in a “supporting” role, the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) of San Francisco, recently invested in new wireless technology from Lectrosonics. Jeremy J. Lee, a New York- based freelance sound designer who frequently specifies sound system designs for the theatrical community everywhere from the regional theaters to both on and off Broadway, was called in to oversee the audio aspects of the American Conservatory Theater’s January 2009 presentation of John Guare’s Rich…
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