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Lectrosonics Powers The Color Purple
For San Francisco’s Hillbarn Theater’s performance of The Color Purple, sound designer Alan Chang of Coral Canopy chose a range of Lectrosonics products to...
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Sennheiser, Full Compass Sponsor Event
Sennheiser and Full Compass Systems are co-sponsoring a special audio recording clinic with Grammy-winning sound engineer Leslie Ann Jones and Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of...
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Rio Concert Relies on DPA
Jesse Lewis turned to DPA Microphones for capture the orchestra and piano for the live international broadcast of the Concert in Rio that closed...
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Sennheiser Mic is VO Go-To
Actor Rodney Saulsberry, the voice of the Telemundo TV network’s English promos worldwide, uses Sennheiser’s MKH 416 shotgun mic for his diverse voiceover work.
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Yaniv Outfits with GC Pro
Yaniv Farber, for over 20 years a high-end tile, granite and marble installer, recently created a production facility with assistance from Guitar Center Professional.
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Weird Al Makes ‘Fun’ At Bedrock.LA
For his new album, Mandatory Fun, released on July 15, “Weird Al” Yankovic chose to record at Bedrock.LA studios in Echo Park, Los Angeles’...
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Master Mix Live Moves
Master Mix Live has moved into a new, 2,000 square-foot soundstage/studio. A flexible, multi-use facility that will alternate use as a recording studio, rehearsal...
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PAR On Audio Production Touch Screens
I think one of the big changes on the horizon is touch screen technology utilizing touch screen panels (TSPs). It’s time to re-imagine the...
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AUDIO MUST-HAVES: ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR KEEPING THE FESTIVAL ON TRACK
With multiple musical acts gracing each stage, a constantly changing lineup of microphones, DIs and backline are juggled.
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Sennheiser Moves Miley to Digital
For her current tour promoting the album, Bangerz, Miley Cyrus is performing with Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 microphone system.
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Lectro Captures Footkhana FX
Video production specialist La Fabrica de Carbon recently completed "Footkhana," a film for Castrol and Ken Block, using Lectrosonics equipment.
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Masque Sound Hollers on Broadway
"Holler If Ya Hear Me" opened last week on Broadway, featuring the rhymes of famed rapper Tupac Shakur. The production tapped the talents of...
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Peace and No Quiet
Morrissey will release his tenth studio album in July, World Peace is None of Your Business, which was recorded in France in February with...
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“Hedwig Heads To Broadway”
Revived from its off-Broadway and cult classic film counterparts, Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch follows an East German transgender rockstar’s struggle to fame...
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Creating Transparency In A Glass House
After spending more than three years looking for a new house into which he could relocate his private production studio, Eric Hart was able...
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DPA Disappears in Jersey
To capture audio during the filming of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, the production team used concealed DPA microphones for period authenticity.
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FCC R&O Puts Squeeze On Pro Audio RF
Wireless audio equipment operators and coordinators could face an increasingly tougher time finding usable frequency spectrum over the next three years as a result...
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Audio Must-Haves: Festival Essentials
With multiple musical acts gracing each stage at every festival, a constantly changing lineup of microphones, DIs and backline are juggled. Many acts carry...
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DPA Makes a Pilgrimage
A team of documentary filmmakers and music producers is using DPA microphones to capture The Walk to Fisterra, a 600-mile musical/walking journey along the...
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FCC R&O Puts Squeeze on Pro Audio RF (cont.)
The June, 2014 issue of Pro Sound News features an extensive discussion between numerous major players in the FCC R&O concerning RF and its...
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VK Helps GCC Upgrade
Vintage King recently worked with Glendale Community College in Arizona to upgrade its recording studios.
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Studio Review: Rich Tozzoli’s St. John Recording Retreat
This year's recording session in the U.S. Virgin Islands features AEA, DPA, Fender Passport Studio, Grace Design and Universal Audio products.
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Sennheiser Plays Chelsea Music Fest
Sennheiser has partnered with the fifth Chelsea Music Festival, which starts today and runs through June 14; the eight-day festival showcases German and Brazilian...
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Mojave Online Library Launches
Mojave Audio has debuted its online media library featuring a collection of audio samples and video tutorials, examples and session overviews.
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AKG Augments Red Bull Air Race
The recent Red Bull Air Race in Rovinj, Croatia had numerous ties to AKG. Most noticeably, Austrian pilot Hannes Arch—a co-creator of AKG AV100...
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McGraw/Hill Hear Ear Trumpet
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill once again graced the stage at the 2014 American Country Awards in April, singing a duet with the help...
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The Sound of After Midnight
NEW YORK, NY—Conceived by Jack Viertel and directed by Warren Carlyle, one of the newest shows to grace the stage in New York City’s...
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Barresi Kicks It Old School
HOLLYWOOD, CA—The audience for engineer, producer and mixer Joe Barresi’s presentation during the recent three-day ASCAP Expo in Hollywood was familiar with his work...
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The Bodyguard Gets On The Mic
The stage musical of The Bodyguard, currently playing at London’s Adelphi Theatre, relies on DPA Microphone’s d:screet 4060 Omnidirectional Miniature Microphones to capture the...
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AKG Captures Anderson’s Sax
Marcus Anderson, a multi-talented artist who has been playing saxophone with Prince’s band for almost two years, uses Harman’s AKG C519 miniature condenser microphone...
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Pageot Records with AKG
Producer Steve Pageot picked up his first AKG recording microphone at the age of 19, and today uses several AKG mics and headphones that...
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White Embraces T-funk
Noel White, drum technician and co-owner of Hudson Street Sound in Annapolis, MD, has been using Telefunken microphones for both recording sessions and live...
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DPA Meets Henson Challenge
The sound crew selected DPA Microphones for the production of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, an eight-week reality competition on the SyFy network.
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Godzilla Gets On The Mic
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn of sound design team e2 recorded some of the key sounds—including a famous roar—featured in the new,...
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Anoka Church Undergoes Audio Upgrade
Originally built in the 1950s, the Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka, MN recently went through a renovation that required a substantial upgrade of the...
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FCC Moves May Dim Wireless Mics’ Future
Wireless microphone and IEM operators are about to discover how much UHF spectrum they are likely to lose next year when the FCC votes...
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Demand Performance: Critical Microphone Characteristics for Theater
Sir Winston Churchill’s famous comment about blood, sweat and tears not only symbolizes the effort that goes into any theatrical production but also represents...
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Masque Sound Supports Aladdin
For the Broadway adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin, Masque Sound was tapped to design the sound reinforcement system.
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McBride Taps Blackbird’s Vintage Gear
For her latest album, ‘Everlasting,’ Martina McBride revives the spirit of the 1950s and 60s with the help of producer Don Was (Bonnie Raitt,...
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Lectro, AC/DC Put Pedal to the Metal
It’s been a rollercoaster week for legendary hard rockers AC/DC, as it announced guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is “taking a break” due...
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Dixie Medical Center Adds CI-BUSS
The Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center recently installed a new Tech Works CI-BUSS communications system in several of its Cardiac Catheterization lab facilities.
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Dixie Medical Center Adds CI-BUSS
The Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center recently installed a new Tech Works CI-BUSS communications system in several of its Cardiac Catheterization lab facilities.