DUBLIN — d&b audiotechnik Partner, Mosco, recently provides a d&b Y-Series solution with E-Series components as delays for The Gaiety Theatre on Dublin’s South King Street.
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TOKAJ, Hungary — Tamas Fazekas, CEO and founder of Budapest-based ZAJ Show Lighting, turned to Outline components for a unique challenge: to provide even audio coverage for the 2,500 attending staged performances within the stony environs of Tokaj Amphitheatre, which has a mountain as a backdrop.
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MILWAUKEE, WI — Sven Pro Sound incorporated components from K-Array’s installation product offerings for The Plaza Hotel. The goal was to enhance the audio quality of the historic hotel while minimizing the impact to the historic building’s aesthetics.
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Sound Companies
Summit Group Event Services, Stage Pro
Venue/Location
Bandimere Speedway
Morrison, CO
In between mixing FOH for (and tour managing) Blue Öyster Cult, our ace correspondent Steve La Cerra comes up with some highly utile — and always entertaining — writings on audio basics in his “Theory & Practice” column, found on page 57. A couple weeks ago, we chatted about a topic for this month’s entry and decided that something about gain structure and dynamic range would be appropriate. After all, these are two fundamentals that play an essential role in achieving good sound, yet sometime cause confusion when mixing (pardon the pun) reality with theoretical abstracts.
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Drum roll, please…. Ta Dah! This year we’re celebrating the 15th annual Parnelli Awards. This is a fact I am very proud of, and I am sure Parnelli Awards co-founder, Patrick Stansfield, is looking down at us from his production office in the sky, smiling as well. It seems just yesterday the Parnelli Awards were a gleam in our collective eyes. But now, 15 years later and with 37 of the top production people in our field honored, we have hit a milestone year.
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Brian Ruggles’ Scenes from a Lifetime with Billy Joel
Billy Joel is a Long Islander, from the tips of his ivory-tickling fingers down to his sustain-pedaling right foot, and likes to surround himself with similars. So our story begins with a young Brian Ruggles kicking around those same stomping grounds in the late 1960s. The two grew up in neighboring towns, though “I was more middle class compared to Billy, who, as he puts it, was lower middle class,” Ruggles says. As Joel was cycling through several bands, so was Ruggles who, although a drummer and guitarist, was principally a lead vocalist.
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