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Monday, June 17, 2013In The Studio: The Glory Days Of Muscle Shoals
Bruce Borgerson 06/17/13 04:39 PM,“Working at Muscle Shoals was by far the best period for me, from the middle sixties through the seventies. I think my understanding was broadened and deepened so much by watching records being made from scratch, rather than deductively from written arrangements. Oh, man, it changed my life! There was never such an interaction between me and the musicians, and there was never anything like it in New York or LA.” — Jerry Wexler, quoted in Richard Buskin’s Inside Tracks… View this post
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Church Sound: Helping Vocalists With Their Monitor Wedges
Mike Sessler 06/17/13 10:28 AM,This article is provided by ChurchTechArts. Getting a vocalist’s monitor mix right can often be the difference between a smooth worship experience and a difficult one; at least from a musical perspective. The trouble is not typically lack of talent but an artist having a hard time determining what they really need in a monitor mix along with difficulty in communicating those desires to the engineer. Knowing the difficulties so many people have, I wanted to give both vocalists… View this post
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Engineer • Loudspeaker • Monitoring • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Technician -
Tuesday, June 11, 2013Making The Best Of Subpar Systems & Gear On The Live Club Circuit
David Norman 06/11/13 09:46 AM,As a long-time engineer who has mixed everywhere from small clubs to television to arenas and amphitheaters, I’ve picked up some invaluable insight over the years. One of the toughest gigs for a sound person has to be going on tour with a band playing smaller clubs, where sound systems and related equipment can range from less than stellar to downright scary. If you find yourself in this position, all is not lost. Here are some tricks I’ve learned that… View this post
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Blog • Opinion • Study Hall • Training • Business • Concert • Engineer • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Technician -
Church Sound: Key Questions To Ask In Assessing Your AV Systems
Dale Alexander 06/11/13 09:01 AM,The process of accurately assessing the systems and related factors at any church can be tricky business, and in particular, at an existing church. The key in every situation is to make a candid and complete assessment of the entire facility and equipment, taking into account many other important (and related) factors as well. There are so many variables to be considered, but it all starts with determining where the church currently is right now both in its system usage… View this post
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DiGiCo/Group One Launch Master Series Training Seminars Providing Educational Resources
PSW Staff 06/11/13 06:35 AM,Working in conjunction with its U.S. distributor Group One Limited, DiGiCo recently launched a series of educational training seminars — “DiGiCo’s Master Series: From Power On to Expert” — focused on showcasing the current line of SD Series systems. Full Sail Live, the award-winning school for entertainment media located in Orlando, FL, hosted the inaugural seminar, facilitated by DiGiCo/Group One’s top audio trainers, national sales manager Matt Larson and technical sales & support Ryan Shelton. More than 90 were in… View this post
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Monday, June 10, 2013Brett Orrison Chooses Waves Live Tools As Front-of-House For The Black Angels
PSW Staff 06/10/13 09:58 AM,Brett Orrison, front of house engineer for The Black Angels, is utilizing Waves Live tools on the 2013 Indigo Meadow tour. Specifically, Orrison, who is a Waves Audio/Greg Price “Young Gun,” is traveling with a Waves MultiRack SoundGrid with two DSP servers, as well as an Allen and Heath iDR64 equipped with an M-Waves card and the iLive T112 surface. He uses a Dell Precision Laptop to steer the SoundGrid DSP servers while multi-track recording with PreSonus Studio One. “I’m… View this post
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Friday, June 07, 2013Church Sound: Technical Issues Aren’t Always Technical
Brian Gowing 06/07/13 11:39 AM,This article is provided by Gowing Associates. A couple of issues that arose in a couple of the churches I support bred the title for this post. I realized after these events that it’s sometimes hard for techie types to think outside of the technical box. They sometimes get so focused that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Some of this is due to not having enough technical knowledge and experience. Some of it is due to… View this post
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Thursday, June 06, 2013Lectrosonics Announces New ASPEN Certified Dealer Program
PSW Staff 06/06/13 09:53 AM,Lectrosonics recently launched the ASPEN Certified Dealer Program, created with the goal of ensuring higher standards of technical expertise when deploying the company’s ASPEN Series products. The program is a three-fold initiative designed to help integrators gain the technical expertise necessary to ensure top-quality AV system deployments. ASPEN dealer certification constitutes the following requirements: 1) Someone on staff at the AV integration firm must have successfully completed Lectrosonics’ ASPEN Factory Training Program. 2) The AV integration firm must have at… View this post
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013Dialing It In: Delivering Consistent Concert Sound For Paramore
Kevin Young 06/05/13 04:29 PM,Since Paramore’s 2005 debut recording All We Know Is Falling, the Nashville-based, rock outfit’s popularity has grown substantially, garnering them multiple Grammy nominations as well as plum song placements in soundtracks for motion picture blockbusters like Twilight, platinum sales and a consistently growing, global audience. They’ve also developed a reputation for high-energy live shows, fueled as much by their musical chops as by a finely honed sense of what they and their audience need to hear in order for both… View this post
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Blog • Concert • Engineer • Microphone • Sound Reinforcement • System • Technician -
Church Sound: Getting Our Soundcheck Priorities Straight
Curt Taipale 06/05/13 02:03 PM,This article is provided by Church Soundcheck Who is soundcheck for, anyway? Sounds like a silly question, at least until you start talking with the worship teams and tech crews at a lot of churches. Then the realization begins that in fact there are some different perspectives floating around out there. From my perspective as an audio engineer, soundcheck is not the process of setting up the microphones or making sure that everything is working properly, and it’s not… View this post
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Consoles • Digital • Education • Engineer • Mixer • Monitoring • Sound Reinforcement • Technician
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