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New Yorkers Light the Tree with and Audio Assist from JBL, PRG

New Yorkers Light the Tree with and Audio Assist from JBL, PRG

NEW YORK – They may lack the visual prominence of a Manhattan skyscraper or a 74-foot-high Norway spruced decked out with 30,000 LED lights. But the subcompact JBL VerTec line arrays that PRG provided for the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony still played an important role at the event, which featured performances by Mariah Carey, Josh Groban and Susan Boyle and an appearance by the Rockettes from nearby Radio City Music Hall.

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Wood Option Helps Give Bag End the Nod at Texas Church

DIMMITT, TX – The congregation of the First Baptist Church is partial to the sanctuary's handcrafted walnut accents, and to the efforts undertaken by Troubadour Solutions and Bag End to get an exact match between the old wood trim and the appearance of the new Gem Series speakers being installed.

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Don’t Look Back

That hedline (yes, that's spelled right. It's an antiquated newsroom thing. We also call the first paragraph of a story a "lede") is a little misleading. It's the end of the year. Of course we are going to look back. It's one of those human nature issues.

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Pink Floyd Quadraphonic Consoles to be Auctioned for Charity

Mike Lowe, Britannia Row, with the two quad units.

LONDON – The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.

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David Morgan: “My Instrument is the Console, and I Play the Band”

In a time when pop music careers are measured in weeks instead of decades and the next big thing will fade by tomorrow, the second biggest tour of the year featured two old friends both in their 60s doing a show that felt like it could be in a small club – or sometimes in your living room. James Taylor and Carole King took a show that started out as a short series of dates in L.A. and put it on the road, consistently selling out 20K arenas and sounding great at every stop. Manning the console was veteran mixer David Morgan who had an advantage going in. He had the trust of everyone on stage.

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AKG C 214

We are all familiar with the legendary AKG C 414 microphone and all of its incarnations. Actually, that statement may be incorrect. I currently specialize in live sound reinforcement, but all of my C 414 use was during my studio engineering days.

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Gear Box Pro Cable Management Systems

So FOH editor Bill Evans gave me a buzz and asked me to look at these products and offer my thoughts. He contacts me when he wants that everyday, Joe Schmo opinion on something. Occasionally, he wants me to be hypercritical and nit-picky to avoid manufacturer hyperbole and puffery (thanks for the new vocabulary word, Papa Johns!).

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Boulevard Pro Finds Its Niche

Like so many people who founded regional sound companies, twin brothers Anthony and James Cioffi – who run the very successful Boulevard Pro in northern New Jersey ("seven miles from Times Square," Anthony points out) – started out as musicians.

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Doors @ 9

8 a.m., Sunday morning, and the big Christmas program at Trinity Church International in Lake Worth, FL is about to get underway. Loads of planning, months of rehearsals, hiring a string and horn section (small orchestra) went into this. plus stage setup, chairs, mics, and programmed lights. It's gonna be a great show.

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