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Tuesday, September 29, 2009Current Brooks & Dunn Concert Tour Features Abundance Of AKG Microphones, Wireless
PSW Staff 09/29/09 10:16 AM, 0 CommentsBrooks & Dunn, currently on tour celebrating their 10th studio album titled “Cowboy Town,” and their Monitor Engineer Kurt Springer are utilizing a wide range of AKG microphones and wireless systems. selected a complete AKG wireless system that encompasses over 30 AKG products for the tour. The dynamic country music duo, with more than 20 number 1 hits and record sales of over 30 million on their resume, have utilized AKG products for several years. The current tour includes a… View this story
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009All Access: System & Sound Team For 2009 Green Day Concert Tour
Jeff MacKay 09/23/09 12:29 PM, 0 CommentsTouring in support of their latest album release, 21st Century Breakdown, Berkeley-based band Green Day crossed North America for several months this past summer, with Clair Global provided the sound reinforcement system, which was under the direction of System Engineer/Crew Chief Jason Vrobel. “We’re using Clair’s I-5s with I-5Bs beside them,” explained Vrobel. Clair I-3s are used for side hangs, with BT-218 sub-bass cabinets. “Initially we tried hanging the BT-218’s, but it simply wasn’t happening. It was affecting the main… View this story
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Friday, September 04, 2009Toby Keith On Tour: Two Amigos Talk About Concert Sound For The “Big Dog Daddy”
Nort Johnson 09/04/09 05:44 PM, 1 CommentDirk Durham and Earl Neal sat comfortably on a bus outside the Rockford Metro Center in Northern Illinois prior to the next to last show on Toby Keith’s “Biggest & Baddest Tour.” This was also the calm before the twister. When Toby Keith takes the stage in 90 minutes, it’s a controlled audio stampede for the duration of the evening. That morning entering the small arena, the first impression of the PA was “That’s a lot of PA!” A JBL… View this story
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009Avid Kicks-Off Multi-City Digidesign Venue Console Roadshow Next Week
PSW Staff 09/02/09 12:19 PM, 0 CommentsBeginning next week (September 9), Avid will travel across the Americas to demonstrate the newest member of its Digidesign VENUE family of live sound consoles, the Digidesign VENUE SC48, an excellent tool for small to mid-sized houses of worship, clubs, corporate A/V companies and touring companies. In a series of local events, registered attendees will receive two hours of hands-on training from veteran live sound engineer and Digidesign Market Manager Robert Scovill. Scovill will instruct in the features and benefits… View this story
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009Coldplay Employing Sensaphonics Custom Earphones On Current Concert Tour
PSW Staff 09/01/09 03:48 PM, 0 CommentsThe ongoing Coldplay Viva La Vida concert tour has all band members utilizing Sensaphonics custom earphones and Sennheiser wireless systems. Further, all four band members upgraded from the classic ProPhonic 2X-S to the Sensaphonics 2MAX. “Most of the backline crew also have Sensaphonics IEMs,” says Monitor Engineer Chris Wood. “We have found the drivers to be very reliable. I can’t recall having a problem in the eight years we have used them.” A few wedges can still be seen on… View this story
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Real World Gear: The Latest In Large-Format Line Arrays
Mark Frink 09/01/09 10:24 AM, 1 CommentThis time in Real World Gear we look at the big guns - large format line arrays, those with 12-inch and larger woofers. Line arrays are modular, multi-way enclosures arrayed in vertical columns, with their cabinet’s geometry optimized to provide full-frequency transducer coupling from one enclosure to the next along the height of the array. This is achieved at lower frequencies with cone transducers forming a column from one cabinet to the next, at frequencies where the distance between their… View this story
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Green Day Utilizing Telefunken Elektroakustic Microphones For Both Touring & Recording
PSW Staff 09/01/09 08:31 AM, 0 CommentsThe current tour by Green Day sees the band utilizing Telefunken Elektroakustic M80 dynamic microphones for all vocals and various instruments, while at Ocean Way Recording to record the album “21st Century Breakdown,” all of Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals were recorded with his new Telefunken U-47 and all of Mike Dirnt’s vocals used the new company’s new ELA M 251. Both large diaphragm tube microphones are manufactured in the meticulous reproduction of masterpiece microphones of the past. “The M80s are… View this story
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Monday, August 31, 2009Meyer Sound Germany Celebrating 15th Anniversary With Open House Event In October ‘09
PSW Staff 08/31/09 06:30 PM, 0 CommentsTo commemorate its 15th anniversary, Meyer Sound Germany will host an industry-wide open house event at its headquarters in Montabaur on October 9 and 10. The audio-focused program will bring together touring, installation, and event production professionals, and will highlight a range of technical presentations and discussion panels on the hottest topics in the professional audio business, such as the emerging IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) networking standard. A highlight of the day’s events will be a demonstration of the… View this story
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Sound Image Supplies JBL VERTEC Line Arrays For No Doubt Summer Tour
PSW Staff 08/31/09 11:17 AM, 0 CommentsThe 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour, which culminated in August with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdel Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, was supported by sound reinforcement courtesy of Sound Image of Escondido, California, which provided JBL VERTEC line arrays. The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour reunited one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s, whose 1995 release Tragic Kingdom has sold more than 16 million copies to date. In recent years, No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani… View this story
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Friday, August 28, 2009What Does It All Mean? Understanding Analog & Digital For Audio
Bruce Jackson & Steve Harvey 08/28/09 06:03 PM, 0 CommentsAnalog? Digital? Both? In professional audio, many choices exist, but there’s not enough time to make the wrong ones. We regularly hear claims floating about, often skewed by particular opinions and interests that tend to color underlying simple truths. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the noun “analog” as being something that is analogous (similar or related) to something else. For example, an analog can be a food product that represents another, such as inexpensive whitefish “krab” intended to replicate more expensive… View this story
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