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Alanis Morissette
In 1995, Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill, which went on to become one of the best-selling records ever by a solo artist. The...
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The Live Sound Industry Grows Up (and Slims Down)
Twenty-five years is a long time. The scary thing is, I've been involved with sound for a lot longer. It's amazing to stop and...
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No Doubt
Touring to promote their fourth album for Interscope, Rock Steady (2001), No Doubt has been on the road since last fall and will be...
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THE CHIEFTAINS
After 40 years of recording and touring the world, The Chieftains have become an institution in Irish music, a musical idiom otherwise known for...
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ROB ZOMBIE
Rob Zombie is out on tour with a brand-new Martin Audio Wavefront W8L line array system, supplied by Delicate Productions of Camarillo, Calif. The...
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High-Tech, Smart Tech
When you think of likely bastions of cutting-edge audio technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., isn't first on the list. But those old images of a...
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Terrasonde Audio Toolbox
I bought my first piece of test equipment in 1975 a Micronta volt-ohm meter from the local Radio Shack. I assumed its manual would...
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys was probably born in high gear. The 21-year-old R&B singer/songwriter was singing Broadway tunes at age four and writing songs at 14....
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SUM 41
SUM 41 has rocketed to the top in record time. Exploding out of Ajax, Ontario, the band was signed to Island Records in 1999,...
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THE KRONOS QUARTET
The Kronos Quartet are best known for their unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation. Since the group's inception in 1973, the
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BILLY IDOL
Billy Idol is back! On tour for most of the summer of 2001, Idol wound up the year with a three-night stand at The...
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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
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TOOL
If there's any act within the current strata of hard rock bands that no one has the guts or ability to rip off, it...
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That Travelin’ Sound
Formed in 1986 in New Jersey, Blues Traveler, led by harmonica wizard John Popper, quickly took New York City clubs by storm and landed...
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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...
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Oysterhead GREAT SOUND FROM SMALL PACKAGES
When Phish, the most popular jam band in the country, announced in 2000 that they were going on an indefinite hiatus, many fans didn't...
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Report from New York AES: Small But Mighty
(www.atrservice.com) was packed with attendees checking out its Aria Super Analog Electronics, an external package for high-performance analog tape transports. Designed by Crane Song’s...
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TOURING NEWS
Deep Purple has been using HK Audio T-Series and M-Series speakers as onstage monitors. According to monitor engineer Rob Hodgkinson, The new VT 115...
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Technology Spotlight: Yamaha DM2000
Seven years ago, Yamaha unveiled its first full-featured digital console: the 02R. Offering 24 analog inputs and 16 tape returns for a total of...
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DEPECHE MODE
Depeche Mode took to the road last summer, playing sold-out sheds and arenas around the world in support of Exciter, their 13th full-length release....
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MADONNA’S DROWNED WORLD
Madonna's six-month Drowned World 2001 world tour combined state-of-the-art sound equipment, provided by Clair Bros./Showco, with good old-fashioned hard
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Neil Diamond
Digital audio has made steady, if not entirely trouble-free progress in the recording world, and even devout analog believers now accept that their work
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POWER To Go
Whether used in a small band's monitor rig or in a multichannel system driving large speaker arrays, a good power amplifier (or three) that...
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ON TOUR
Detroit-based Thunder Audio provided a 48-stack NEXO system for the Pledge of Allegiance tour, which featured Slipknot, System of a Down, Mudvayne and
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OZZFEST 2001
Last summer, the sixth incarnation of Ozzy Osbourne's wildly successful Ozzfest tour slithered its way across the country. The main stage lineup included
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Club Sound Tips
Most people who listen to live music have been to a club or a similar small venue to hear a favorite band or performer....
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The Hammerstein Ballroom
On a weekday afternoon in July, rows of chairs line the main floor of the Hammerstein Ball-room, a giant projection screen hovers in the...
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Radiohead
The band who could do no wrong: There is no question that the summer of 2001 simply belonged to Radiohead. For a few perfect...
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LAVALIER MICS: PLACEMENT TIPS
Originally, lavalier mics were buried in the chest area and painted to match the costumes, where possible. Now, lavaliers are mostly mounted on the...
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HITTING THE ROAD
Rocket in My Pocket Road Tour (September 4-14, 2001) Sponsored by Fits & Starts Productions, LLC, and Apple computers, this first in a series...
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STAIND
Finding the right producer can be as important, and sometimes as difficult, as finding the right bandmembers. The right producer came to the hard...
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The Sounds of Summer
You are not sitting on your couch. You are at the ballpark. That was a bat crack, a slide into second base, an outfielder...
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ROBERT SCOVILL JUGGLES SOUND SYSTEMS FOR TOM PETTY
Any FOH engineer at the top of his game will tell you that he is always busy. But few are as busy as Robert...
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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...
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PLACEBO
Back in the mid-'90s, while we here in the U.S. were still content to pick at the decaying corpse of post-Cobain alt-rock, our European...
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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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A Perfect Circle
During the winter of 99, the rumors were everywhere; Tool's elusive frontman Maynard James Keenan and songwriter/guitarist Billy Howerdel, without management
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Guns n’ Neuroses
The long-awaited third season of The Sopranos debuted March 4, airing back-to-back episodes of the acclaimed HBO series that depicts the complicated life
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Setting Up the Mix House
Mike Shipley and I were walking around the AES show in L.A. last September, trying to work out some scheduling issues for something, and...
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LCS CueConsole Fits Into the World of “Seussical”
When Jonathan Deans started sketching the sound design for Seussical, the new Broadway musical based on the works of children's artist Dr. Seuss, his