So I'm driving a car I'm not used to yet and it has some features that were not present on my last vehicle. Like "automatic lights." Silly me, I go to turn off the lights when I park the car and the car informs me that is a bad idea.
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What is it about Nashville acts and their crews? It's like there must be something in the water, because I have met my share, and they are all accommodating, humble and just a joy to be around. And the Brad Paisley crew – Kevin Freeman (FOH, PM), Mark Gould (monitor engineer), Alex Moore (monitor tech, Pro Tools), Jim Miller (system tech) and Mike "Moses" Beck (fly guy) – are no exception.
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London-born Lily Allen, 24, has been no stranger to success. Well, at least not on the British side of the pond.
Her debut single, "Smile," topped the U.K. charts in July 2006, and her first album Alright, Still, sold over 2.6 million copies and received much critical acclaim, including nominations at The Grammy Awards, The BRIT Awards and The MTV Music Awards.
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The 2010 NAACP Image Awards were broadcast on FOX on Feb. 26 live from The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with audio production services provided by ATK Audiotek of Valencia, Calif.
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Lots of edgy stuff happens on a daily basis at the Penn & Teller Theater in the Las Vegas Rio Hotel. To make sure things don't go absolutely haywire, the sound crew relies heavily upon its wireless communications system.
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Call it an evolution of the whole "speaker on a stick" thing. Line arrays have always been groundstackable, but much of the perceived advantage disappears when they are not flown.
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Whether you're an engineer or an artist, what is it that we're looking for from personal monitors? I've narrowed that question down to a few things that are important to me. I want to have brilliant (but not painful) highs, super-punchy mids to make the vocal cut through and low end that stimulates the shaking of my nether regions. A hard feat to accomplish, and very few PM manufacturers can say that they can accomplish this.
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The word "metropolis" doesn't easily roll off the tongue, unless of course, you're a superhero and you're talking about protecting your hometown. Just about the only other place in the "real world" where the term seems appropriate is Las Vegas – land of skyscrapers, megaplexes and roller coasters on top of skyscraper megaplexes.
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I was hired to "run" the new sound system in the remodeled lounge at a local Vegas casino. The system was installed by a local music store (now defunct), and had a few decent pieces, but was void of some desirable items, such as subwoofers and such. But I was game, having worked several casino rooms, and I had previous experience with volume issues in this type of venue.
Read More »On Jan. 15, the FCC came down from the mountain with a stone tablet upon which was scribed "anyone who uses a wireless microphone (or similar device) that operates in the 700 MHz Band will have to stop operating their wireless microphone (or similar device) no later than June 12, 2010."
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Much like Woodstock, the odds are that if you remember what happened on the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, you probably weren't there. Hundreds of thousands of musicians, managers and hangers-on strolled up and down the Los Angeles avenue hoping to make it, bank it, or, well, you know.
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We got a couple of letters regarding last month's "Theory and Practice" column. So we are all on the same page, the purpose of that article was to impart a basic understanding of what digital audio is comprised of for the guys who are not interested in all of the formulas and math.
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