Smashing Pumpkins Install Their System into the Legendary Fillmore Auditorium for an Extended Run
As one of the most legendary venues in the land, The Fillmore in San Francisco has hosted many of yesterday and today’s music legends. Pick your era, pick its definitive band and the odds are they have performed on the hall’s hallowed stage. So, it made perfect sense for the Smashing Pumpkins to reintroduce themselves to fans during an 11-night run at The Fillmore.
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Rich Morris
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Soundguy Productions
Portland, OR
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503.998.5420
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PG&E Park; Outlaws Bar & Grill; Mambo Lounge; City of West Linn; Pacific Northwest Church of God; Cascade Blues Association; Best of the Best Music; Latin Expressions; Debris; Brace the Fall; Shunt and many, many more…
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The AES convention is the feeding frenzy of the audio world. Like sharks to chum, audiophiles from the world over descend upon the caucus and devour the newest, the latest and the yet-to-come of the best that audio manufacturers can offer. It is a feeding frenzy catering to the most basic needs of any gear-head. As exhilarating as it is overwhelming in its enormity, the experience of AES truly has the feel of a school of sharks gorging themselves on the massive body of a whale until they are overly satiated by their own gluttony and can do nothing but float belly-up in a stupor. Each year seems to bring more vendors, newer products and, in short, more bells and whistles. While many products are just the same old offerings in a new package, there are always the new designs, add-ons and plug-ins that make the convention exciting and worthwhile.
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For 41 years, the Montreux Jazz Festival has been drawing a phenomenal array of artists from all corners of the world and all over the musical map. For nearly three weeks every summer, the festival presents a diverse roster of musicians spanning jazz, rock, blues, world beat and more. With two main halls and several smaller stages, the logistics of staging a festival of this magnitude are challenging. FOH spoke with several visiting engineers, as well as the festival’s sound coordinator Pierre-André Aebischer of Niveau2, the soundco for the festival, to get a sense of what it takes to put the show together every year.
Once upon a time in the kingdom of Hertz, a small duchy in the southwest corner of the Land of Ohm, a rebellion was brewing among the foot sol-diers who made the kingdom’s many events sound excellent. These foot soldiers once were seen as the equal of the kingdom’s high priests, as their knowledge and expertise allowed them to make even the rattiest of sound systems sing like a choir of angels. But they had recently seen their status in the kingdom drop precipitously as some in positions of power in the kingdom began to suggest that they could be replaced by a new magic called digital technology.
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Peers Honor Six Who Stand Out in Their Region
Despite their different zip codes, backgrounds and equipment preferences, every one of these six sound companies quickly jumped to the same ex-planation when asked about what makes them successful: It’s the people they hire.
“We invest in people,” Bobby Brantley says emphatically. “I say this again and again, you can have the best gear out there, but if you don’t have the right people behind the gear, you’re starting with one hand behind your back.”
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Yeah, it’s a cheesy headline, what can I tell ya? Like so many other choices we make in life, it seemed like a good idea at the time. So, it is actually official. FOH has made it through five years. Pretty amazing. I know there are a few folks out there who lost money on this particular bet.
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INDEPENDENCE, MO — Attracting upward of 250,000 people, this year’s Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival featured live music performances distributed across three stages and included appearances by artists Mark Chesnutt, the Bellamy Brothers, and others. A Crest Audio Century GTX 40-channel, eight-bus console handled mixing tasks. Wireless microphone systems included MIPRO ACT-707D UHF receivers used with MIPRO ACT-707H condenser handheld transmitters as well as MIPRO MR-212 VHF true diversity receivers along with MIPRO MH-202 dynamic handheld transmitters. For monitoring, MIPRO MI-808 wireless personal systems were used.
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NEW YORK — Located on the site of the historic Cafe des Artistes, the Valmont Club is a 300-capacity venue whose focus is providing an inclusive atmosphere (no VIP rooms here) and serving a menu of 60 different cocktails. The audio soundtrack includes a mixture of background music, DJ sets and live performances. To achieve the desired sound quality, audio contractor Outstanding Productions chose Turbosound loudspeakers.
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OLD LYME, CT —In support of Hilary Duff’s new album, the Dignity Tour set out in late July to play thirty-two shows throughout North America, with more shows to be added in the fall. The show used Sennheiser wireless audio technology with thirty-nine RF channels, including Duff’s e 935 vocal microphone.
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BUENA PARK, CA — Celebrating 40 years since the Summer of Love, Adams Entertainment and Lyric Opera San Diego presented the world premiere of Love In: A Musical Celebration of 1967 in early September at the Birch North Park Theater in San Diego. Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. provided the majority of the audio equipment for the 5.1 house system that consisted of a Yamaha DM2000 for front of house mixing, 20 NEXO GEO S805s, four GEO S 830s, three GEO S 1210s, one GEO S1230 and two PS8s speakers.
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The QB363 is a modular front-loaded, arrayable bass system, for permanent and semi-portable applications. It is designed to act as scalable low-end extension of the Q-series pro-ribbon column arrays.
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