Veteran FOH mixers Greg Price (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Van Halen) and Parnelli Award winner Brad Madix (Rush, Beck, Rage Against The Machine) have formed Diablo Digital (diablodigital.com), a venture that offers ready-to-roll equipment packages for live recordings. It’s also another instance of the kind of entrepreneurism that reflects an increasingly DIY live-sound business.
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Club touring presents many difficulties, one of which is the possibility that you can’t travel with your own P.A. system. Couple that with the fact that when the venue changes every day, mixing on a different sound system every night becomes a huge challenge. Your mix can sound totally different from show to show, and it’s tough to pinpoint the reasons why. Is it the console? The system processing? The speaker arrays? Here are some tips to help you stay out of the loony bin.
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As the title suggests, this month’s column is all about miking of your instruments, vocalists and/or choir to enhance the overall message delivered to the congregants at your house of worship. I am not concerned with what make or model of microphones you’re using. I do have a list of manufacturers I like and use myself, but this month’s column is not about those companies. I am more interested in where you place your mics and how you use them.
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As audio engineers, we work in a business that is driven by passion and emotion. While audio engineers — in a perfect world — should have a zeal for their work, many required operations that are performed are devoid of such animated fervor. Flying a speaker array, setting frequencies for wireless units, running cables, patching a stage and ringing out a speaker system are a few of the things that come to mind that do not require a great or enthusiastic commitment on behalf of the engineer.
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EDMOND, OK – DPA Microphones recently joined cello-rock group Break of Reality as advocates for the importance of music education in schools, donating three d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones to Edmond North High School (ENHS), based here.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA – For The Tempest, co-produced by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), based here, and The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, sound designer Darron L West and associate sound designer Charles Coes turned to Masque Sound for audio system support. The play premiered under a big top tent in Las Vegas on April 1 and is now playing at the A.R.T’s Loeb Drama Center.
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FOXBORO, MA – Shoreview Distribution Inc., founded in 1989 by Luke Furr, is celebrating 25 years this year. The company’s first client was Sony. Other brands now handled by the firm, based here, include Revolabs, JVC, Pioneer, Toshiba, Tascam, Ricoh USA, Crane and others.
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PORT PERRY Ontario – Sound Solutions, located in Seoul, Korea, recently offered a technical seminar to more than 400 audio professionals in Korea. The day-long event included a demonstration of Adamson Systems’ Energía product line, including the company’s E15, E12, E218 subwoofers and T21 subs.
Read More »BELL, CA — Pro AV wholesale distributor, Empire PRO, has recently moved. Its new location is 5675 Mansfield Way Bell, CA 90201. The new facility, close to Los Angeles, has three times the warehouse space, according to the company.
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COLUMBUS, OH — Bartha, based here, recently purchased a Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system for its rental inventory. Bartha opted for LYON based on its promise as a powerful tool to optimize audio quality for corporate events in convention centers and arenas as well as indoor and outdoor music concerts.
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NASHVILLE — For Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kinda Night” Tour, now on its second leg for 2014, the audio crew has been relying upon Kelly SHU microphone shock-mount systems to provide both in-transit and operational support while offering additional isolation for the mics used to amplify drummer Kent Slucher’s kick drums.
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KINGSTON, Ontario, Canada — The Caravan Stage Company, based here, has been looking to Neutrik for all its connectivity requirements for audio and lighting aboard a custom-built, flat-keeled vessel that serves as both a unique floating performance venue and residence for the touring cast members and crew.
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