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Thursday, February 26, 2009
PSW Staff
02/26/09 02:41 PM,
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VTC Pro Audio’s Flagship Elevation Series Line Array was used exclusively on the So You Think You Can Dance Canada tour, including a February 2009 stop in Toronto’s famed Air Canada Centre. The 665,000-square-foot Air Canada Centre is a prestigious live music and event facility in Canada’s largest urban center. Seating 20,000 for concert events, it is consistently ranked #3, #4, and #5 worldwide in the top three concert industry trade magazines (Venues Today, Pollstar and Billboard respectively). Production and…
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02/26/09 01:46 PM,
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Berkleemusic has announced upgrades to Pro Tools 8 for many of its online Digidesign courses, including Pro Tools 101, Pro Tools 110, Mixing & Mastering with Pro Tools, Producing with Pro Tools, and Remixing with Pro Tools and Reason. The Spring Term begins April 6, 2009. Berkleemusic.com is the online continuing education division of Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music, and the exclusive online provider of Digidesign’s Pro Tools 101 and 110 curriculums. Close to 4000 students from over 60…
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
James Cadwallader
02/25/09 11:44 AM,

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It’s time for me to come out of the closet: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool unity gain structure freak. There, I said it and I sure do feel better. Catharsis is a good thing. Now, for those of you who aren’t sure what the heck I’m talking about, I’ll explain, and maybe get a few of you over to the dark side with me. First some clarification. Gain in sound parlance is the act of adding to (positive), subtracting from (negative), or…
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dave Dermont
02/18/09 11:43 AM,
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Ever since my most recent steady house gig became not quite so steady, I’ve been banished to a 14-foot straight truck to do gigs that usually come at the last minute. In fact, last minute gigs have become the rule instead of the exception. I used to consider getting booked for a Saturday gig on the prior Tuesday as a tight timeframe. Lately, Saturday night bookings are arriving on Saturday afternoon. The gig I’m writing about here, however, was booked…
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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12/30/08 04:01 PM,
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Touring 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…
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