BOONVILLE, CA — A yearly touchstone for Sacramento Production Services, this year’s three-day Sierra Nevada World Music Festival featured a plethora of roots music talent from around the globe including King Sunny Ade, Sly & Robbie, Femi Kuti, Junior Reid, The Heptones, The Abyssinians and more.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — The artist lineup at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival was as esoteric as ever, particularly in the Acoustic Tent, equipped this year with a Turbosound Aspect rig.
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ROTHBURY, MI —The Dead, comprised of founding members of The Grateful Dead, have been touring extensively this year with the new M 80 dynamic microphones from Telefunken Elektroakustik.
Read More »TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves Live Division, which earlier this year announced that more than 50 of its plug-ins would be compatible for use with Digidesign D-Show software and Venue consoles, announced that its Hybrid line (H-Comp Hybrid Compressor and H-Delay Hybrid Delay) and PuigChild compressor limiter will be compatible with Venue as well.
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MILAN, Italy — With a stage name that means “curly hair” in Italy’s Apulian dialect and a recent album called Le Dimensioni del Mio Caos, the artist known as CapaRezza may revel in unruliness. To keep his sound in line for the thousands who turned out for his recent performance at Milan’s Indroscalo sports complex, however, GM Music once again used Proel’s Axiom and Edge systems.
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ATHENS, GA — Technical Services Audio Visual (TSAV) upgraded the sound system at the Grand Hall at the Classic Center with a NEXO GEO S12 line array system. Used for performance events, the Grand Hall can seat 3,175, and for the very largest crowds, the system may be augmented with near fills for the area directly in front of the stage.
Read More »Yes I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late
The cannons don’t thunder
There’s nothing to plunder
I’m an over 40 victim of fate
—Jimmy Buffett
InfoComm has always been more about video displays and digital signage and that kind of stuff than about live event gear. But given the lack of other outlets, it has really become the de facto live event audio trade show for the year.
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Jeffrey “Jj” Hillman has a tough job. He mixes audio for a show full of stunning hotties who just happen to spend much of the show topless. Sounds cool, right? But it is not what it appears. “I just came off a 60 hour week,” he says. “Nice paycheck but…” That “not what it appears” applies to pretty much everything about this show.
Read More »For a PDF of the July 2009 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE . Your intrepid FOH’ers have covered personal monitors (also known as “speakers in your… Read More »Wireless Personal Monitor Systems
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You hear many great things when you get the call to work on a brand new installation. When Lee Dennison, project manager at Delta Sound in Surrey, U.K. picked up the phone, though, he did not hear many great things. First, the client let him know the space he’d be working in was in the middle of a 43-acre site, that it was in a shopping center and that the location’s construction called for glass ceilings and marble floors. Oh, and there was no time or inclination to add any kind of aural treatments to the space.
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If you saw the June issue of FOH you may remember that we did a Buyers Guide looking at some of the “pre-packed” drum mic kits available out there. The bias against these kind of kits has been that they are just a way to package mediocre mics and that they weren’t really for pros. If that is your thinking you have not used the Earthworks Kits.
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