ZURICH, Switzerland — Kylie Minogue has been touring Europe this autumn before heading back to her native Australia. Eighth Day Sound has been providing audio support for the tour. The microphone package includes Sennheiser SKM 5200 mics with MD 5235 capsules and EM 3732-II receivers, with monitoring via Sennheiser SR 2050 IEM transmitters and EK 2000 IEM belt packs.
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PATCHOGUE, NY — Steve Jaworowski, pictured here, recently acquired a Soundcraft Si Expression 1 digital console for his classic rock band Vavoom and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers tribute band Breakdown, both of which play in nightclubs and pubs throughout Long Island. Of his first Soundcraft console, Jaworowski says the console, his first from Soundcraft, has fit his budget and exceeded his expectations. He credits the move to the digital side for lightening the load the bands faced while traveling with analog consoles and related gear.
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ALPHEN, The Netherlands – Dutch audio rental provider Story Sound has been making good use of the JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers in its inventory. Along with big summer festivals like Dreamfields and Emporium (pictured here), where Story Sound deployed 160 V25 tops and 122 S28 subs, the soundco has been using the gear to support events including the Four Day Marches [Vierdaagsefeesten] in Nijmegen and smaller gatherings as well.
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MILWAUKEE, WI — Sven Pro Sound (SPS) recently completed a major audio upgrade at Eastbrook Church. Four different small to large venues within the church were upgraded with a wide variety of products. The largest venue upgraded was the church’s main worship hall. SPS designed a dynamic sound system that included d&b audiotechnik’s Q-series speakers and D12 amplifiers. SPS also made use of d&b’s ArrayCalc modeling program.
Read More »BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, announced that the Judiciary of Colorado has selected the company’s Audia® and Nexia® digital signal processing (DSP) platforms to provide distributed audio across the state’s courtroom facilities. Installed within the Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center and more than 100 courtrooms throughout the state, the professional audio solutions improve the intelligibility of in-court proceedings while enabling new capabilities for networked audio technology.
Read More »TORONTO – Adamson Systems has announced the appointment of BG Media Solutions and MM Technologies as sales representatives for the Ontario and Quebec, Canada territories respectively. Ontario’s BG Media Solutions was founded in 2007 by Bryan Guidolin with a focus on representation of commercial and professional premium audio brands.
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This is supposed to be the season of hope and good cheer, but I’m troubled about certain events related to our industry stemming from NBC’s December 3rd live broadcast “Christmas in Rockefeller Center.” Sure, there are far more pressing developments in the news, ranging from freaky weather to racial tensions to the general state of the world. However, as live entertainment is our world, it bears discussion, as this could have some serious ramifications about the future of live performance. Read More » Portable SystemsCall it what you want — speaker on a stick, or whatever — but portable systems, with their fast, easy setups are the bread and butter of our industry and, combined with a sub or two, can offer impressive performance in smaller venues. To download a PDF of the FOH Dec. 2014 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE. Read More » Garth Brooks is BackWhen F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts in American lives, Garth Brooks wasn’t around to refute that assertion. After officially “retiring” from recording and performing in 2001 — with periodic, strategic breaks to drop a few new singles and one-off shows — he came part of the way back in 2009 with a five-year performance-in-residence at the Encore Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Now, with a new deal with Sony Music Nashville and the release of his catalog in digital — something he resisted doing for years — Brooks embarked on a three-year-long world tour in September. Read More » Five Finger Death PunchGlobal rock heavyweights Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP) quickly rose to fame after the release of their first Album The Way of the Fist in 2007. Since then, 5FDP has sold more than 2.6 million albums in the U.S. and a new single, “Wrong Side Of Heaven” (on the plight of veterans suffering PTSD) has racked up more than 10 million plays on YouTube since Aug. 11. Read More » Making the Leap: The Realities of Room TuningPerhaps you are the owner of a regional production company, the sound guy for your band, or the production manager for a venue. Over the years you have purchased better microphones, switched from an analog console to a digital console, added a DSP to your system and maybe even moved to self-powered loudspeakers. Every once in a while, you’ve had a band mixer or system tech show up with SMAART, or Systune, or SpectraFoo to “tune your system.” Sometimes the results have been impressive, other times, not so much. Either way you see that said sound person has well over $1,000 invested in software, computers, microphones and interfaces to enable them to do whatever they’re doing, and you decided it is not worth the money for your business, band or venue. Read More » From Where I SitTraveling around the world and performing in a different city each day, it’s somewhat difficult to establish a lasting sense of continuity within one’s daily professional experience. We consecutively encounter venues that vary in age, size and architectural design — with each structure presenting its own unique set of physical and acoustical challenges. One of the few constants on a world tour with a major artist is the presence of those few pieces of essential gear that we carry everywhere with us. For example, I have been mixing on the same DiGiCo SD5 console since this tour began last May. It is both the cornerstone and the centerpiece of my mobile office. Read More » |