FOH Engineer Ange Jones Supports Paul Weller's Return to The Royal Albert Hall
In May, Paul Weller returned to London's Royal Albert Hall to play five dates promoting his new album, Wake Up The Nation.
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"Whether it's speakers on a stick or flying a PA, the only difference is the size of your toolbox."
Rob "Cubby" Colby is known to most as a world-class engineer whose career spans nearly four decades. His résumé covers many genres and reads like a Who's Who of artists, from the early days of Prince and Phil Collins to the artist he's currently touring with, Juanes. But this article isn't about microphones or mixing techniques. It's about Cubby and how he's endured and adjusted throughout the years…in his own words.
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"This is a state-of-the-art facility with features you would normally only find in a building that was built from the ground up," Brad Garven says. "It was an unusual renovation."
Make that an extensive renovation.
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Once again, I find myself running late on the review, which undoubtedly makes someone pissed off at me. And as with most of the reviews I procrastinate on, I wish that I had done it sooner, because I usually find myself pleasantly surprised. This go-around, my victim is AKG's DMS 700 Digital Wireless RF system, using AKG's DSR 700 digital receiver.
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The T-Series is the latest addition to the growing iLive family of digital consoles. Within the T-Series family, there are two different control surfaces, the T-80 and the T112. Both control surfaces are accompanied by two different MixRacks named the iDR-32 and iDR-48. The system that I was sent to review was the T112 surface with the iDR-48 MixRack.
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This one is short and sweet. The ever-increasing use of computer firepower in the live sound biz has resulted in a plethora of laptops on gigs.
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Up until about a year ago, plug-ins were pretty much to domain of those using digital consoles and, more specifically, the Avid VENUE series. All of the console companies had their own plugs that came with the console, but the Profile was the one that really opened the door by allowing the use of any Pro Tools-ready plug-in live.
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Miami and the surrounding South Florida area has long been one of the most competitive markets in the country, and one of the broadest – few can match its stimulating mix of big arena shows, clubs, large niches (Latin and dance/electronic) and, of course, parties.
Read More »In his April FOH Theory and Practice, Brian Klijanowicz discussed the concept of word clock. If you missed class that day, here is a brief recap: Every digital device employs an internal word clock circuit as a timing mechanism. Word clock determines sample rate, and its accuracy is paramount to audio quality.
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We were scheduled for a new tour of a Steven Sondheim musical review. It required us to provide all sound (10 lavs and six handheld wireless), six monitor mixes plus side fills, some backline for an eight-piece orchestra as well as scenic elements.
Read More »Each of these vignettes about the Nashville touring industry that we've been doing this summer, starting with the May issue of FOH, offers an opportunity to look at another aspect of what is the most highly developed touring sound, lighting/video and staging infrastructure in the world.
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I recently did a small tour around a bunch of churches which included a choir that was mic'd via 14 large diaphragm condensers. It also included a very well-known artist leading the choir who wanted to hear the choir in her side-fill monitors.
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