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FixIt: The Fray Front-of-House Engineer Jon Lemon
On the U2 shows, the main end of the P.A. had two lefts and two rights—flown side by side—so one system...
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Baltimore SoundStage Opens
Baltimore SoundStage, a new performance space, will open at 124 Market Place in Baltimore’s inner harbor on Labor Day weekend. The new venue is...
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iLive Thrives at Soundcheck Austin
Rehearsal facility Soundcheck Austin (sister company to Soundcheck Nashville, where the Mix Nashville event is being held in 2012) installed Allen & Heath iLive-T112...
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Sensaphonics Michael Santucci
Sensaphonics founder and audiologist Michael Santucci is the new lead audiology advisor to Hearing Health Science Inc., a start-up company specializing in hearing research...
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Blue Note Upgrades
Due to the location of jazz club Blue Note’s stage, house engineers must contend with three mixing zones to compensate for the position of...
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BeatBox Installs Danley Sound
New San Francisco live music venue BeatBox is the first club on the West Coast to feature Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers. BeatBox occupies...
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Harrah’s North Carolina Brings in d&b System
Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel (Cherokee, N.C.) recently underwent a new sound system install, handled by PXS Audiovisual Technologies (Covington, La.) and overseen by...
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FixIt: Luke Bryan Monitor Engineer Ed Janiszewski
I have one musician who requests changes more frequently than the rest of the band. In the past, it meant flipping to his mix...
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Acentech Spruces Up Venue
The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, a 420-seat, 13,000-square-foot performance hall in Stowe, Vt., hosts a variety of music, dance and theater performances, as...
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Metric Halo to the Theater
Paul Kavicky, owner/operator of Pater Street Audio Company (Columbus, Ohio), is working the FOH position for Threesixty Theater’s production of Peter Pan, which will...
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InfoComm 2011 Show Report
InfoComm (June 11-17, Orlando) has grown into a pretty healthy trade show, with an increased audio presence that has made it the leading U.S....
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FixIt: Neon Trees Monitor Engineer Mike Bangs
We are sharing preamps between monitors and FOH and doing a digital split from the monitor console’s iDR-32, so our FOH...
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Potential Solution for ‘Listener Fatigue’
At the 130th AES convention (London, May 14), in-ear technologist Stephen Ambrose, along with Robert Schulein and Samuel Gido, entered two papers and a...
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Start At the Source | Miking Vocals Onstage
GETTING THE BEST VOCALS ONSTAGE, THROUGH THE BOARD
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Ribbons on the Road
Ask an engineer if they’ve used a ribbon microphone in a live setting, and you’re likely to get a reaction that goes something like...
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Sound Media Brings in Turbosound
Full-service sound and lighting company Sound Media (Hollywood, Fla.) has selected the Turbosound Flex Array as its flagship loudspeaker system.
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InfoComm 2011: AudioScience Connect CobraNet
The Connect series includes the Connect CobraNet and the Connect CobraNet Mini interfaces. Additionally, the ASI2416 now goes by the Connect CobraNet Custom name to...
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Live: London Bridge Amps It Up
New London live music venue Under the Bridge installed a record number of 66 QSC PL3 amplifiers (23 PL380, 31 PL340 and 12 PL325)...
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FixIt: Cage the Elephant Monitor Engineer Jay Rigby
All of the guys have wedges in front of them, but the guys who wear ears use them for kick drum and that kind...
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Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, May 2011
Mix magazine new sound reinforcement products column in the May 2011 issue of Mix magazine live sound products section article
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FixIt: Thames Audio’s Pete Cox on Wireless Lord Mayor’s Show
The system could be viewed as three separate areas. First, we needed a signal path from the floating stage to the control position onboard...
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Live: New York City Theater Goes 5.1
Last year, The Victory Theater’s audio system (originally installed in 1995) began to show its age. The theater’s director of production, David Jensen, consulted...
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Live: QSC Control of Stadium Audio
Home of the NFL Detroit Lions, Ford Field recently installed a QSC Q-Sys integrated system platform (two Q-Sys Core 3000 main frames and 27...
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Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, March 2011
Mix magazine new sound reinforcement products column in the March 2011 issue of Mix magazine live sound products section article
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FixIt: Cinematic Orchestra Monitor Engineer Paul Hatt
The Cinematic Orchestra usually uses wedge monitors, but for the Royal Albert Hall performance, almost all the bandmembers had to use in-ears, and we...
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Live: Bowery Boston Upgrades
The Bowery Presents—with assistance from Scorpio Sound Systems—recently retrofitted its Boston venue with a new state-of-the-art sound system, which includes a d&b P.A and...
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Live: Blues Travelers Deliver to Fans
It began as nightly recordings for archival purposes; for the past couple of years Blues Traveler has been offering concert fans a high-quality recording...
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Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, February 2011
ix magazine new sound reinforcement products column in the February 2011 issue of Mix magazine live sound products section article
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FixIt: Flyleaf FOH Engineer Rich Caldwell
Flyleaf originally wanted a recording truck or mobile setup to come out, but we felt confident that we could capture the audio ourselves and...
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Dave Morgan Q&A
TOP FRONT-OF-HOUSE ENGINEER STILL GOING STRONG AFTER FOUR DECADES OF MIXING
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FixIt: Gaelic Storm FOH Engineer Peter Wildermuth
With the unique combination of instruments in this band, the most challenging thing is making the mix sound full, without sounding brittle or harsh....
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Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, January 2011
Mix magazine new sound reinforcement products column in the January 2011 issue of Mix magazine live sound products section article
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Vinyl Music Hall | From Rubble to Big Leagues
In just a few months, the new Vinyl Music Hall venue (Pensacola, Fla.) emerged in a spot that was formerly occupied by a gutted...
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Dual Installs, Dual E-V Rigs
When Pyxis Industries (Riverside, Calif.) was asked by North Coast Church to bid on the design and installation of sound systems at two different...
