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FixIt: Shon Hartman
Read monitor engineer Shon Hartman's Live Sound Tip on using Lab Gruppen PLM Series for Offspring 2008 tour
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Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, September 2008
Mix magazine new sound reinforcement products column in the September 2008 issue of Mix magazine live sound products section article
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Local Crew: LES—New Crew on the Block
Live sound company Live Event Solutions in Conyers, Georgia is a sound reinforcement company profiled in Mix magazine's Local Crew
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New Sound Reinforcement Products, August 2008
YAMAHA IM8 ANALOG MIXERS Designed for rentals or installs, Yamaha's (www.yamahaca.com) IM8 Series 8-bus analog mixers come in 24/32/40-channel frames,
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FixIt: Philip J. Harvey
PilotLight Audio Inc./White Stripes front-of-house engineer Philip J. Harvey recently multitracked the band's 10th-anniversary tour in 2007 in 40 channels
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FixIt: Bobby Aitken
Raymond Gubbay's production of Tosca features a sound design by Bobby Aitken. Tosca is one of the recent operas performed in the round at...
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New Sound Reinforcement Products, July 2008
POWERSOFT K3 DIGITAL POWER AMP Powersoft (www.powersoft-audio.com) expands its flagship Digam K Series with the ultracompact, single-rackspace K3 power
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FixIt: Jayme Braun
FOH engineer Jayme Braun recently finished up the third leg of the Adore 2007 tour. You can also find Braun mixing house for JoJo,...
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Gallo Center Opens With High-End Audio System
The Gallo Center for the Arts, a new $40 million theater complex in Modesto, Calif., offers two performance venues: The Mary Stuart Rogers Theater...
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FixIt: Dave Guerin
Monitor engineer Dave Guerin recently road-tested the DiGiCo D5 Version 4 upgrade for The Pogues' Christmas tour. Entec Sound and Light supplied the console,
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Daly Survives With CONEQ
For the final live telecast of Survivor: China, sound designer and lead mixing engineer Bill Daly relied on the Real Sound Lab CONEQ tuning...
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Installation Profile: Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis) has taken in a Cadac 24-channel S-Type compact live production console as part of a major sound system upgrade for
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New Sound Reinforcement Products, March 2008
DBX DRIVERACK PX The first processor in the industry tailored for powered speakers, the DriveRack PX from dbx (www.dbxpro.com) offers an all-in-one solution
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FixIt: Brent Rawlings
Front-of-house engineer Brent Rawlings is relying on a Britannia Row-supplied Turbosound Aspect system during Kings of Leon's European tour. This is a
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FOH Mixing
You’re too far back. Why can’t I just hang the P.A., for goodness sake? Does the vocalist really need to cup the mic? I...
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FixIt: Bryan Worthen
Front-of-house engineer Bryan Worthen is mixing a nine-date UK arena tour for Foo Fighters. He's manning two DiGiCo D5s to handle the show's double...
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Technomad Donates to Extreme Makeover
Technomad Associates has donated a turnkey P.A. system to ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for a show scheduled to air in February 2008. The...
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P.A. Showcase at ET Live!
ET Live!, held during the LDI 2007 conference (November 16-18, 2007) in Orlando, employed six P.A. systems and requisite concert gear (including front-of-house
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FixIt: Kirk “Eek” Shreiner
Front-of-house engineer Kirk Shreiner has mixed for Mtley Cre and is currently out with Maroon 5. I have been working for Clair/Showco for 19...
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Kaufman Center Gets Audio Face Lift
New York City's Kaufman Center will unveil its new look on January 8, 2008. The facility's Merkin Concert Hall, a 449-seat performance space, received
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FixIt: Jeffrey Luge Holdip
Currently mixing FOH for Nelly Furtado, Jeffrey Luge Holdip has also mixed Citizen Cope, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Santos & Pecadores, as well as...
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Festival Work
The personnel on the stage are critical. At Strawberry, Tony Williams does a fantastic job organizing and deciding which inputs go where. Especially in...
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Sound Design
The songs are well-known, but the dialog is very funny. Chris Egan's orchestrations are crafted not only to enhance the pop songs, but also...
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Mic Choices
One of our goals was to create an SR system with a huge wow factor for the audience, while providing outstanding audio excitement for...
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All-Around Good Tips
The supercardioid 105 capsule is not for everyone. It depends on the artist and the situation. What helps with Mary is that the drummer...
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The Analog Option
I wanted to avoid the increasingly popular trend of wedging highly complex and powerful consoles — digital or analog — into simple and relatively...
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Digital, Digital, Digital
Managing snapshots, presets and safes: These can be incredible tools for helping you manage a complex show, one that has multiple bands, a high...