Tritech Light and Sound

Feb 1, 2006, By Sarah Benzuly

New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco in each of these major cities, you would expect to find at least a few dozen sound reinforcement companies...

The Incredible Shrinking Rig

Feb 1, 2006, By Sarah Benzuly

ENGINEERS ARE CREATURES OF HABIT. They like to use certain consoles, certain effects, certain mics, certain techniques. Now throw in the urgency inherent...

FixIt: Thomas McNabb

Jan 1, 2006

Thomas McNabb, FOH for Mae, is a one-man engineering show for this tour, as there is no monitor engineer. (The band handles monitoring duties.) Mae is...

A Night at the Opera

Jan 1, 2006, By Nick Russell

There's probably no indoor theater this big in the world hosting live opera, says Allan Naplan, referring to the 12,000-plus crowd gathered for the fourth...

Yamaha PM5D Digital Console

Jan 1, 2006, By Mark Frink

With more than 1,000 units sold, thousands of engineers have used the Yamaha PM5D. This year's TEC Award winning digital live console a cross between...

Local Crew: Production Logic

Jan 1, 2006, By Tom Kenny

Editor's Note: Most sound reinforcement press focuses on big rock 'n' roll tours, massive stadium installations and the handful of companies that tackle...

News

Dec 1, 2005

Rental company Masque Sound (East Rutherford, NJ) recently purchased a JBL VerTec line array system. Says JBL VP of tour sound, David Scheirman, The synergy...

New York Metro

Dec 1, 2005, By David Weiss

CBGB it seems like no matter how many times you see those letters, the mystique remains. A bar originally built in 1973 to be the forum for New Yorkers...

Club Profile: Vanguard

Dec 1, 2005, By Sarah Benzuly

In today's slimmed-down, budget-conscious world, SR companies are looking for new ways to increase their profits. Regional companies are booking summer...

Meyer Sound Acquires LCS

Dec 1, 2005, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly

On November 1, Meyer Sound announced that it has acquired LCS, which manufactures VRAS, CueConsole, CueStation, Matrix3, SpaceMap and WildTracks. The...

FixIt

Dec 1, 2005

U2's monitor engineer, Dave Skaff (Alicia Keys, Shania Twain), recently picked up a Digidesign VENUE digital board for the band's current tour; when Mix...

Lincoln Theater Upgrades

Nov 1, 2005

Home to the Napa Valley Symphony, the Lincoln Theater (Yountville, Calif., www.lincolntheater.org) required a $20-plus-million renovation of aesthetic,...

News

Oct 1, 2005

PBS' Celtic Woman tour includes performances by five Irish solo vocalists headed by former Riverdance musical director David Downes. Destination venues...

A Sound Design Triumvirate

Oct 1, 2005, By Mark Frink

This past spring, three Broadway musicals captured 10 of a combined 36 Tony nominations: Spamalot, Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels and The Light in the Piazza...

Songs of Carmen Surround Audiences

Sep 1, 2005

Austria's opera season once again opened in surround this year thanks to sound company Mister Master and Europe's largest natural stage: a Roman-built...

Making the Wedgeless Transition

Aug 1, 2005, By Mark Frink

For many touring artists, making the switch to an in-ear monitoring system or in-ears alone rather than relying on wedges can be daunting. Fears such...

FixIt: Kevin Glendinning

Aug 1, 2005

You can create happiness for the musicians onstage by using what already exists in your environment. Before deciding where to set stage levels, listen...

Webster Hall Revives Its Live System

Aug 1, 2005

Webster Hall, which has seen its share of live acts Prohibition-era balls, a recording space for RCA Records' artists and numerous rock acts has brought...

The Fabulous Commodore Ballroom Turns 75

Jul 1, 2005, By Tim Moshansky

There's no mistaking the Commodore vibe. From the neon sign over the tiled entrance, up the winding staircase and into the second-story ballroom in Vancouver,...

NAB Show Stays Silent

Jul 1, 2005

At the recent NAB show, Yamaha, Aviom and Shure demonstrated a silent stage in which the companies' products allowed a live band to perform without onstage...

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