GUANGZHOU, China – For VCAT, one of a new breed of “superclubs” beckoning revelers in China, Catwalk Group turned to Most Technical China, which installed an Incubus Air Array from Void Acoustics for the club’s main room, supplemented with Nexus Series loudspeakers.
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Hosa Technology’s Pro Breakout Cables are designed to make the process of interfacing consumer audio products with professional equipment easier than ever. With Hosa Pro Breakouts, any consumer audio product equipped with a stereo minijack output can seamlessly be interfaced with professional units sporting quarter-inch Tip/Sleeve, XLR, or even RCA connectors.
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EUGENE, OR – George Relles Sound’s George Relles and sound designer Don Ross (pictured here, L-R) provided ground-stacked arrays of Meyer Sound LYON components to meet the challenge of providing sonic clarity within a 260-by-150-foot tent for a VIP fundraising event at the University of Oregon.
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Having just come back from the Los Angeles AES and PLASA London expos (and getting ready to head off to the LDI show and the Parnelli Awards), I can surely empathize with all the “living out of a suitcase” road warriors out there. And a few days back home gives me a little time to catch up on actually putting out the magazine and reflect on where the industry’s headed.
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On Aug. 3, 2014, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers kicked off its Hypnotic Eye tour in support of the group’s new studio album of the same title. The tour was a mix of mostly arena dates, with a few festival appearances, along with a number of outdoor performances, including legendary venues such as the scenic Red Rocks and The Gorge amphitheaters and Boston’s Fenway Park. The two-and-a-half-month tour concluded with two dates at the revamped (and reborn) L.A. Forum in mid-October.
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Pearl Jam rolled into town one October night in St. Louis and filled a hockey arena with remarkable clear sound for a sold-out crowd wanting it old school, and getting it. Like all Pearl Jam tours, while the visual elements are pitch-perfect, lighting and sets aren’t overpowering to the point of distraction. This was all about the music, kicked through an L-Acoustics K1 speaker system supplied by Rat Sound who has been working with PJ for 20 years.
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On a cold Dec. 31st at 5 p.m. in 1997, Bob Goldstein stepped off the streets of Times Square, went to his hotel room and told his wife Vivian he was finished as a sound man. He had taken on an impossible assignment, one that others had turned down. And one who did told the Times Square Business Improvement District fella that “there’s a crazy guy in Baltimore that might be able to do it.” Goldstein had agreed to put sound in the square for New Year’s Eve — something that had never been done. There could be no support structures, no wires, no generators, no testing and adjusting and… well, another 146 restrictions.
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