By Mark Frink
Top 10 Live Sound Picks from AES
AES isn't just a recording show. This year's convention was packed with goodies for the live engineer. Here's my Top 10 fave picks. Allen...
Live Gear
Wireless Nation
Several years ago, the introduction of digital television, along with the auction of bandwidth to digital cellular services, heralded major changes in the American...
New Products
Top 10 AES Live Sound Picks
Apex (www.apex-audio.com) introduced its Intelli-X comprehensive 48 speaker management system, offering 256 EQ filters and 50 presets, employing 24-bit
Live Gear
BSS FDS-366 OmniDrive Compact Plus
I carry my Technomad ProRack to every one-off. It contains three key pieces of audio gear that I don't feel comfortable without: The Midas...
Live Gear
Travel in the Post-9/11 World
It's the end of an era. Or at least the beginning of the end. Soon, the last Concorde will fly. Last year, major carriers...
Profiles
NSCA Expo 2003Top 20 New Live Sound Products From Dallas
Coming on the heels of AES was the 2003 NSCA (National Systems Contractors Association) Exhibition in Dallas. Check out Mix's ...
Live Gear
Celine Dion at Caesars
Many live sound mixers are in a position to specify a preferred live console (as long as the production manager approves the budget, of...
Reviews
Field Test: Klark Teknik DN9340 Helix
Klark Teknik's initials have long been synonymous with quality EQ, and most engineers in the live sound world are familiar with many of the...
Live Sound
Tori Amos
In support of her first album on Epic Records, Scarlet's Walk, Tori Amos completed a whirlwind tour of North America, playing 31 shows in...
Live Sound
Peter Gabriel’s Growing Up Tour
Peter Gabriel's first tour in nearly a decade, which stopped at two dozen North American cities in late 2002, featured an in-the-round arena stage...
Reviews
Field Test: EarQ Technologies Reference Hearing Analyzer
The conventional method of determining the truth about your hearing is to take a hearing test. Unfortunately, most standard hearing exams require both an...
Live Sound
Sir Paul McCartney Back in the U.S.
When my travel plans were pushed back a day, I suddenly had the chance to drop in on Paul McCartney's Back In the U.S....
Live Sound
SOUND DESIGN FOR AN AMERICAN TRADITION
Barbershop harmony, a uniquely American musical art form, drew some 14,000 attendees to Portland, Ore.,'s Rose Garden Arena over the 4th of July week.
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TOP LIVE SOUND PICKS FROM AES
Cadac's (www.cadac-sound.com) renowned quality comes down-market with the new compact S-Type live performance console. It's available in three frame sizes,
Profiles
NOT JUST FOR RECORDING!
Yamaha's DM2000 has created quite a buzz within the recording community, but what about its live sound capabilities? To check it out first-hand, I...
Reviews
Shure ULX Wireless System
Long before Shure entered the wireless market, concert engineers specified cordless mics with SM58 or SM87 capsules. Since introducing its own UHF system
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Field Test: AKG Acoustics C 900
Introduced last winter, AKG's newest Emotion performance microphone is the C 900 condenser vocal mic. It closely resembles the handheld dynamic mics in
Profiles
REACH THE Summit!
From April 25-27, 2002, NSCA Expo 2002 swung into Denver, providing the best tradeshow opportunity for live sound vendors to kick the tires and...
Reviews
Eventide Eclipse
The Eventide Eclipse is the company's first single-rackspace effects processor, a must-have for those who need to fit Harmonizer processing into a crowded
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Field Test: Bag End TA-6000
Bag End has earned its reputation as a manufacturer of compact loudspeaker enclosures featuring accurate sound reproduction. The company offers a wide
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Field Test: Midas XL-42
Over its 30-year history, Midas has produced several live sound consoles, and many of the world's top sound engineers swear by the sonic excellence...
Live Gear
BE PREPARED! ROAD ESSENTIALS FOR YOUR GIG BAG
I'm always fascinated by the labor-saving and problem-solving devices each engineer chooses to bring in their personal kit, and I often borrow ideas and
Live Sound
Touring In 2002
Everyone remembers where they were on September 11. I happened to be in Denver for a k.d. lang show and, once the show was...
Reviews
BSS Minidrive
BSS introduced the DSP-based Omnidrive Loudspeaker Management System in 1994, and has since developed a comprehensive family of Omnidrive products, all
New Products
TOP 10 LIVE SOUND PICKS
Wireworks' (www.wireworks.com) K2500 Portable Handheld Printer ($299 list) can print on yellow or white heat-shrink in five diameters. It can also print
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InnovaSon Sensory Compact Live
So far, there has been some resistance to digital consoles in live sound, especially at the monitor mix position. However, after using an all-digital
Profiles
Tony! Tony! Tony!
Oh, delicious irony. The Producers, Broadway's biggest hit in years, is the stage version of a 1968 cult film about a pair of sleazebags...
Live Sound
TOUR PROFILE: Brooks & Dunn
Riding high in the saddle with a chart-topping single, Ain't Nothing 'Bout You, Brooks & Dunn have been out on a tour to promote...
Profiles
Firehouse Productions 6500
Known for its custom stage monitors, Bryan Olson's New York sound hire company, Firehouse Productions, quietly introduced their Firehouse 6500 two-way
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TOUR PROFILE
A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT WITH ROCK'S REIGNING SUPERSTARS After picking up three Grammys (Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Rock Performance)...
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Field Test: Shure PSM400
After the first week of rehearsal for last year's k.d. lang tour, the background singers decided that they would be better off with in-ear...