Mickey Gilley's legacy as an icon of country music was already secure when he opened his original namesake bar and honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas in 1971. With its mechanical broncos and classy roadhouse vibe, the club was further immortalized as the centerpiece of the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, setting the benchmark for hip country music bars from coast to coast.
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Church on the Move is a Tulsa, Okla.-based "mega-church" built around the Evangelical ministry of a charismatic transplanted Texan named Willie George. Besides attracting around 10,000 people a week to services at the church, George's organization is also involved in innumerable community outreach programs, a youth summer camp, a Christian school, all sorts of sponsored sports clubs and more.
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At the risk of sounding like the old guy scolding the kids with the whole "When I was your age, we had to walk five miles to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways."
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Our test pieces for this go-round are a robust pair indeed. We're taking the new A-T 4080 and 4081 ribbon microphones for a spin. In the past, I've found it difficult to remain constructive while reviewing mics. They're one of those things that is most certainly left up to a matter of personal preference.
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Unless you have been living in a cave for the past year, you already have heard at least something about the WavesLive MultiRack system. It was first talked about or at least alluded to right after NAMM in 2009. And we said then and maintain after using it that this is a potential game-changer that allows mix engineers to access Waves plug-ins using any console be it analog or digital.
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I work at a large contemporary church in suburban St. Louis and ran FOH in our main auditorium for eight identical Easter services. Part of the service involved the band playing along to a timed video, which was being driven via an iMac with the click embedded in the video's audio track.
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In the world of audio, the spectrum of opportunities is broad. From the blue chip large sound reinforcement companies to houses of worship. From small clubs, the cruise ship entertainment groups and weekend festival companies to recording studios. Audio comes in all shapes, forms and conï¬gurations.
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In "I Thought I Saw a Mixer In My Laptop," (FOH, "On the Digital Edge," Feb. 2010), we looked at Software Audio Console (SAC), a virtual mixer that works with any PC running Windows. (We take another look at a SAC system being used for a Michel Legrand tribute show in this issue's Production Profile, page 30. – ed.).
Read More »Shortly after Dan Daley compiled and submitted the information for this column, the Nashville area was hit by what locals are calling a 100-year flood. Many of those who Dan interviewed for this column were directly or indirectly affected when water levels on the Cumberland River exceeded 50 feet – more than 12 feet above flood stage. For more details on the flooding and its aftermath, please CLICK HERE. -ed.
Read More »Most people reading this article have, at one point or another, heard a bad sounding show with some annoying frequencies, or with an unbelievable amount of feedback. The question is, why? More often than not, this can be avoided by properly recognizing problem frequencies and giving them some needed attention.
Read More »One of the most common things I see (and hear) when I evaluate a house of worship sound system is that the mixing console is not in a very "sound-friendly" location. There are obvious limitations when deciding on the placement of the board, but I have seen a worship house spend buckets of money on a state-of-the-art system and then stick their mixing console in an out-of-the-way corner of the worship room.
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Installs! You have got to be kidding! Local sound companies are going out of business because some guys insist on installing great audio gear into rooms that were once empty palates that longed to be titillated by the taste of audio.
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