For the past five years, Fall Out Boy FOH engineer Kyle Chirnside has been manning the controls. For the band’s current world tour, Chirnside is turning to the Midas PRO6.
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It could be argued that FOH mixer Robert Collins has seen some of the greatest live rock ‘n’ roll shows ever. Actually, that would be a short debate, since Collins has stood in front of a laundry list of legends over the past number of decades, including this past summer’s run of 14 shows in the States with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.
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The days of hauling tons of copper around to get the audio signal from the stage to the console are rapidly fading. This short chart will give you an idea of what is out there that will let you carry a good reel of Cat5 cable instead of a giant multi-core snake.
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I have a great deal of respect for the QSC name. After all, they have been building rock solid amplifiers and gear for decades. The high quality of their products has made them one of the icons of the sound biz. That said, whenever I review equipment from the big boys I tend to put that gear under a microscope. So, now that you know where I am coming from with regards to this review, let’s go.
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere for the last year or so, chances are you’ve at least heard about and probably have been impacted in some way by the changing regulatory landscape for wireless mics and monitoring systems.
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The votes were tallied, and some were close, some not so much … but the readers of FOH have chosen the best regional pro audio companies in North America. There are new faces and repeat “offenders.” One has been at it a little more then three years, another is celebrating a 30th anniversary. All have a passion for audio, an inimitable story, and a dedication to their clients so powerful that their peers — including competitors — were compelled to take time to nominate them and vote for them as best in their region.
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I’m a 20+ year employee of Clair Global working for a popular Cuban born Miami resident and her 15 piece band as A2. (I’ll leave out her name to avoid litigation, but you can probably guess). We brought some gear with us (Board groups, etc), and got some locally (stacks and racks). We also carried a 45k.v.a. Transformer to interface with local 220 volt power (mostly generators).
Read More »An Alternate Look at the Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient PM System
In the December 2007 issue of FOH magazine, Bill Evans presented a review of the Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient Personal Monitor System (www.sensaphonics.com). For the complete nuts and bolts of the system you can refer to that review, but this month in On the Digital Edge we’re going to revisit Sensaphonics’ technology from a slightly different perspective.
Read More »When Bill Sheppell flew home to Ohio in mid-June, he was looking for a little R&R before undertaking what was to have been the gig of the year, if not the decade, as FOH mixer for Michael Jackson’s 50-night This Is It stand at London’s O2 arena, likely to be followed up by a world tour with the same massive stage and troupe.
Read More »A lot of commentary I have heard is that many modern consoles do not have the warmth or fidelity that classic analog circuitry consoles do have. Yeah, many of these consoles are digital and the flexibility in the digital realm is hard to argue for the money invested. But are there tricks and techniques that we can employ to warm up these cold sounding consoles?
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Despite all of our expertise and experience, we live in a world where entropy appears to be the norm and there is no real assurance that our endeavors will lead to success. Without bloviating or waxing poetic regarding our collective attempts to manipulate and control chaos, Murphy’s Law simply states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
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LAS VEGAS — The new $662 million Aliante Station casino, on the northern fringe of the Las Vegas metro area, depends on its showroom as a key draw for locals and tourists.
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