Venues
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Unmasking Masque’s New Facility
Masque Sound (www.masquesound.com) unveiled its 70,000-square-foot facility in East Rutherford, N.J., and added another dimension to a number of live
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The Other Side of Austin Music
In Austin, aka Live Music Central, bands crank out power chords and acoustic ballads at all hours on nearly every street corner. But in...
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Austin Clubs Spotlight
With more live venues per capita than most musical hotbeds, Austin has become a go-to stop for many national traveling acts, while nurturing the...
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FixIt: Howard Lindeman
Howard Lindeman With numerous engineering stints at Record Plant and Hit Factory, Howard Lindeman takes his engineer/mixer experience to his current front-of-house
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Latest Installs
JBL Roars In San Francisco JBL and Pro Media/UltraSound (Hercules, Calif.) recently completed an install requested by San Francisco-based stadium Monster
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True Remote Recording Via the Web
Longtime Dallas-based drummer Ron Kaplan (pictured) recently found himself on the other side of the glass, when longtime friend, Chicago-based songwriter
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Yamaha Helps Bombay Dreams
Broadway's Bombay Dreams is the story of a slum boy who rises to fame and fortune making movies and features a 5.1 score combining...
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Fits and Starts Turns How-To
Audio seminar and workshop provider Fits & Starts (best known for its surround sound tours) is now offering the manufacturer-sponsored HOW-To Church Sound
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Narrowing Down on Zumanity
Opened at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino's 1,259-seat Zumanity Theatre with sound design created by Jonathan Deans, Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity
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From Stadium to Studio, East or West
Remote Recording, Skywalker Sound and The Hit Factory have embarked on a marketing alliance in which the mobile recording facility will use The Hit...
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Who Owns Your Live Recording?
There's nothing that compares to seeing your favorite artist or band perform live. Yet with the advent of multitracking and editing systems, live recordings
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Sydney Opera House Reinforces Concert Hall
The world-famous Sydney Opera House's new audio system upgrade in its Concert Hall comprises 11 Lake Contour speaker processors driving a permanently
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FixIt: Mark Ballard
During the past couple of years, Mark Ballard has worked as a system tech or at front of house for Kylie Minogue, Travis and...
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5.1 Recording Vibes With ESE
The dusk outside the Marin County, Calif., studio The Site was magical, with deep reds, oranges and grays mixed with clouds, mist from billowing...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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TravelWise: THE CRACK AUDIO TRAVEL SQUAD
Let's face it: Just as the paperless office turned out to be a myth, so did the notion that digital audio technology would give...