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Allen & Heath Qu-32 Digital Console

Allen & Heath Qu-32 Digital Console

Allen & Heath Qu-32 Digital Console

Allen & Heath, the company, was founded in 1969, but first rocked the audio world when they built a custom quadraphonic mixing console for Pink Floyd. The MOD1 board was used by Alan Parsons to mix the band’s live shows. British-built Allen & Heath boards were also used by The Who and Genesis, not to mention countless other groups. Since then, the company has earned an enviable reputation for delivering great sounding, rock-solid analog consoles for both studio and live applications.

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Roland M-5000 — small footprint, 128 audio paths.

Roland M-5000 Live Mixing Console

In some ways, products are a lot like humans. The final result begins with a idea or concept (i.e., conception) and then follows through a development phase and when it’s ready to debut, the timing of that event is entirely in the hands of the product. With humans, we may want a child to be born on some certain special day, whether it’s a holiday or to coincide with the birthday of someone in the family. In the case of products, a marketing team may prefer that the product launch follows a tradeshow calendar, but it doesn’t always happen that way, and such is the case with Roland’s new M-5000 live mixing console, unveiled on the distinctly non-tradeshow date of Nov. 4, 2014.

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2014 AES Show opens to record crowds.

Product Hits of AES 2014

LOS ANGELES — It’s been 12 years since the annual Audio Engineering Society show made an appearance in Los Angeles, this time returning to the L.A. Convention Center from October 8 through 12, 2014. And for audio professionals, this was the place to be, with the exhibit floor, panels and technical sessions packed all four days, with 15,403 registered attendees — representing a 28% increase over the 2012 San Francisco Show, the last time AES was held on the West Coast.

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In Memoriam: Patrick Stansfield, 70

In Memoriam: Patrick Stansfield, 70

Patrick Stansfield, 70, tour manager for Neil Diamond, the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Tina Turner and scores of others, died in the early morning hours on Oct. 28, 2014 from kidney failure. Along with his prominence in concert touring, Stansfield was the production mastermind behind the transformation of Dodgers and Yankee Stadiums for papal visits in 1987 and 2008 and was co-founder of the Parnelli Awards, named in memory of his good friend Rick “Parnelli” O’Brien. He was surrounded by family and friends at the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, CA in the days before his death.

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Davey Bryson

In Memoriam: David Bryson, 61

GLASGOW, Scotland – Longtime Rod Stewart monitor engineer David Bryson, 61, who worked with other artists including Tom Petty, Diana Ross, The Beach Boys, Supertramp and Heart, died Nov. 20 from a brain hemorrhage. Bryson had been working at monitors position for Engelbert Humperdinck in recent years. His 30+ year career had taken him on both sides of the Atlantic, and he had been visiting relatives in his native Scotland before falling ill at the airport. He was hospitalized but did not recover.

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Eccles Center, Home To Sundance Film Festival, Gets L-Acoustics KARAi Rig

Eccles Center, Home To Sundance Film Festival, Gets L-Acoustics KARAi Rig

PARK CITY, UT — David Hallock, production manager at George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, which is owned and operated by the Park City school district, turned to Salt Lake City-based Poll Sound for an audio upgrade within 1,269-seat Kearns Auditorium. The auditorium, which first opened in 1998, serves as the primary venue for the Sundance film festival. Poll Sound provided an L-Acoustics KARAi line source array system to meet the venue’s audio needs. In addition to Robert Redford’s annual film festival, the center hosts a year-round program of national dance troupes, musical acts, cultural events and, of course, student productions.

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Georgia’s Free Chapel Expands with Meyer MINA

Georgia’s Free Chapel Expands with Meyer MINA

GWINNETT, GA —  The Free Chapel, with campuses in Gainesville, GA and Irvine, CA led by senior pastor and best-selling author Jentezen Franklin, opened a new satellite campus here with a Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeaker system for its 900-capacity auditorium. The facility is the ministry’s second venue to deploy Meyer Sound, following the success with a CQ-2 and MSL-4 loudspeaker system on its main campus in Gainesville.

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EAW OTTO Subwoofer

EAW Ships OTTO Subwoofers

WHITINSVILLE, MA — Unveiled at InfoComm 2014, Eastern Acoustic Works’ Otto is the world’s first Adaptive™ subwoofer. Utilizing two Offset Aperture-loaded woofers paired with independent on-board amplification, processing and networking, Otto extends Adaptive Performance™ to the lowest octaves of the audible spectrum. Otto will balance low-frequency coverage with cancellation to suit the user’s requirements; omni, cardioid, hypercardioid or anywhere in between from just a single module. Combined in arrays, Otto provides nearly endless possibilities in low-frequency pattern control.

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Yamaha RIVAGE PM10

Yamaha Debuts Flagship PM10 Digital Console

BUENA PARK, CA — In a worldwide announcement made at InterBEE this month, Yamaha launched the RIVAGE PM10 Digital Mixing Console, a major step for Yamaha PM Series Digital Live Sound Consoles. More than 10 years have passed since the Yamaha PM1D and PM5D emerged (and helped shape) the digital console market. The new flagship RIVAGE PM10 significantly increases the quality and versatility necessary in a live sound environment and inherits features from the well-known PM Series Consoles.

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During the 2014 AES show, David Morgan (second from left) participated in a technical discussion panel on the programming and operational aspects of the different user interfaces that have evolved for live digital consoles. Also pictured (left to right) are Louis Adamo, Patrick Baltzell and Harold Blumberg.

The Ever-Evolving Digital Console User Interface

The James Taylor tour recently completed its seven-week European itinerary in London. My original intention was to spend a few extra days in that familiar and beloved city following the final show at the Royal Albert Hall. During that stay, my day-off-buddy and monitor engineer, Rachel Adkins, and I had planned on hitting up some museums, eating great curry, taking a drive out to Stonehenge and catching up with old friends. That appealing script, however, had to be altered before we even left the USA.

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