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Friday, August 13, 2010
DiGiCo SD7 & SD8 Consoles Installed In Full Sail University’s New Performance Venue
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08/13/10 10:15 AM,
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Four years ago, principles at Full Sail University commenced planning to create a multi-purpose, live performance venue. After a year-plus of construction, “Full Sail Live” has been completes and is slated to be one of the largest, dedicated sound stages for live concert training at an educational facility. Full Sail Live will serve numerous campus-wide events including live musical performances, monthly graduations, open house events, multi-visual presentations, guest lecture appearances, 16-speaker surround movie screenings and live concert student training sessions.…
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Hal Leonard Releases The Recording Guitarist
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08/13/10 07:05 AM,
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“Recording guitar and playing guitar live are as different as night and day,” said author Jon Chappell in the introduction to the new fully revised and updated edition of The Recording Guitarist. It is a fact anyone who has every tried to lay down tracks will attest to—when it comes to getting the right sound down on tape (or hard drive as is increasingly the case) there is a whole different ethos than on stage or in the rehearsal studio.…
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
iLive Chosen For World Debating Championships
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08/12/10 10:59 AM,
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An Allen & Heath iLive system was recently used to manage the final of the recent World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) hosted this year at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. WUDC is the world’s largest debating tournament and one of the largest annual international student events, starting with between 150 and 350 teams from across the globe. The PA company selected to manage the event was Art Production Event Technologies, who employed their new iLive system, consisting of an iDR-48…
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Analogue Returns To Earnapping Musicproduction With Solid State Logic AWS 900+ SE
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08/12/10 09:50 AM,
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German studio Earnapping Musicproduction recently upgraded its Royal Suite studio with a Solid State Logic AWS 900+ SE console and XLogic X-Rack with eight dynamics modules. This marks the studio’s return to analogue electronics, having previously ridden the all digital wave. The AWS 900+ SE delivers SSL’s SuperAnalogue sound quality and signal path, while providing on console control of the resident DAW. “The AWS 900+ SE has really made a big difference for us regarding workflow and sound quality,” said…
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Allen & Heath iLive-T Digital Consoles For Brad Paisley Tour’s Water World Stage
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08/12/10 06:28 AM,
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One of the bright spots in the 2010 summer tour season has been the Brad Paisley “H2O” tour, a fan-friendly affair that offers exceptional entertainment value. Two Allen & Heath iLive-T digital consoles were chosen to run the two-hour pre-show concert at the “Water World Plaza Stage” just outside the main venue on a portable stage set-up. Up-and-coming country stars Steel Magnolia, Easton Corbin and Josh Thompson perform, with over 5,000 fans typically attending. To meet the logistical challenge, audio…
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Greg Price Bridging Divide Between Studio And Live With Avid VENUE
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08/11/10 03:45 PM,
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Live sound veteran Greg Price has seen a lot of changes in his 30 years on the road. An early adopter of Avid VENUE, Price integrated the Avid VENUE D-Show system into his front-of-house work, including on tours with longtime client, metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. And he’s particularly passionate about the system’s tight integration with Pro Tools, which he points to as a paradigm shift in the way music is recorded and performed. Price recently recorded a six-song live EP…
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Tulsa Church On The Move
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08/10/10 11:33 AM,
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In 15-plus years of working out of Nashville, where he toured virtually non-stop as well as mixed the occasional recording, professional audio veteran Andrew Stone rarely - if ever - envisioned plying his talents full time at a church. Yet that’s just what happened about five years ago when he accepted the position of production manager and audio director at Church On The Move (COTM) in Tulsa. Now he’s fresh off the complete renovation of the worship sanctuary, utilizing his…
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Midas PRO6 Chosen By Faithless For World Tour
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08/10/10 09:34 AM,
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Faithless have embarked on the European leg of a world tour, with twin Midas PRO6 FOH systems flip-flopping across the band’s busy summer schedule. With a relentless touring schedule crossing back and forth across Europe from early April, the band’s long-term front of house engineer Mark Kennedy is manning one of two PRO6s from Britannia Row, while the other travels to the next venue with the rest of the system. Kennedy first used the PRO6 during band rehearsals, using the…
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Monday, August 09, 2010
Allen & Heath iLive Chosen By New Zeland Theatre For Re-Opening
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08/09/10 07:58 AM,
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Nelson-based New Zealand PA company, BB Sound, has invested in an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to cater to an increase in music theatre work through the region’s newly refurbished Theatre Royal. BB Sound specializes in festival and concert live sound, purchasing an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface from Allen & Heath’s New Zealand distributor, Jansen Professional Audio & Lighting, which debuted at the Theatre’s reopening. The Theatre Royal is the oldest working wooden theatre in the…
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Friday, August 06, 2010
SK Systems Outfits Summer Doo Wop Concert Extravaganza With DiGiCo SD9 Console
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08/06/10 03:03 PM,
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SK Systems’ newly purchased DiGiCo SD9 fit the bill for the recent Richard Nader Memorial Doo Wop Concert XXI at the Izod Center Arena, Rutherford, NJ. This year’s in-the-round event featured 10 artists performing throughout the night, with a grand finale with all artists on stage. In previous shows for Nader, production partner SK Systems used DiGiCo’s D-series and sister SD-series surfaces for this type of event. As one of the first companies in the world to purchase the newly…
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