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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
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TOUR PROFILE: Britney Spears in Europe
Britney Spears is currently dazzling her European fans with her all-American mix of dance, song and showmanship. But how are things backstage? I met...
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Sequencing for the Stage
DAWS...THE NEW GUITAR? Music has forever changed, and we've all seen it coming. Computer-manipulated sound has become a ubiquitous component in music
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PAPA ROACH The Infestation Continues
Surely one of the great success stories of the past year has been the steady and impressive rise of Papa Roach, the hard-rocking alt...
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All Quiet on the Wedgeless Stage
TIPS ON PURCHASING AND USING YOUR FIRST SET OF IN-EAR MONITORS
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Up In Smoke
TOUR PROFILE Hip hop's dominance of the airwaves and charts has completely revolutionized the sound of popular music. But the genre, especially in its
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TEN15 FOLSOM, SAN FRANCISCO
Inconspicuously posed as a plain, windowless building in San Francisco's achingly hip South of Market district, Ten15 Folsom has long been synonymous
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Knitting Factory, Hollywood
Hollywood has experienced numerous renovation attempts over the past few years. Finally, in the wake of a healthy economy and with the long-awaited Metrolink
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TravelWise: YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
It's the height of summertime, and everyone who isn't stuck behind a front-of-house position under a shed every night is either on or thinking...
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Time for a Change In the Orchestra Pit
Musical theater has been strikingly successful in adapting and refining the modern sound reinforcement technologies that blossomed in the '70s. In fact,
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TOUR PROFILE: Slipknot AGGRESSIVELY HEARD
When Slipknot first em-erged from Middle America in 1998, the press had a field day with the fact that its nine bandmembers, with their...
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Equalizer Inequality
Seemingly, everyone already knows all about equalizers. Their effects are easily heard. Their settings are easily understood. And in an industry that's
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The Truth About Loudspeaker Arrays Part II
ARRAY INTERACTION ZONES The coverage area of a single speaker is defined simply as the angle between the 6dB down points relative to the...