Skip to content

Summerfest 2013: 11 Days, More than 800 Acts and 10 Yamaha Consoles

Switchfoot performas at Milwaukee's Summerfest 2013

Summerfest 2013: 11 Days, More than 800 Acts and 10 Yamaha Consoles

MILWAUKEE, WI — With an assist from Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Inc., Clearwing Productions supported the audio needs for Summerfest 2013, which drew 840,356 to Henry Maier Festival Park here over the course of 11 days (June 26-30 and July 2-7). That support included new Yamaha CL digital consoles along with PM5D-RH consoles, M7CL and LS9 consoles for seven of the event’s 11 stages. Yamaha staff also provided support to those visiting engineers who had not yet used a CL console.

Read More »
Bob McCarthy, Senior Education Consultant, Meyer Sound, gives his keynote address at the AES 50th International Conference. Photo by Kelly Ford.

AES’s First Audio Education Conference Has Live Sound Focus

MURFREESBORO, TN — The Audio Engineering Society (AES) recently wrapped its 50th International Conference, and its first dedicated specifically to audio education, at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) here. The conference took place July 25-27, 2013. More than 140 educators and industry representatives met to exchange ideas and experiences at the event, which featured an emphasis on live sound that included an overview of the sector’s history and development by Bob McCarthy, senior education consultant at Meyer Sound (pictured here).

Read More »
Blackbird Academy

Blackbird Academy To Launch Live Sound Program

NASHVILLE — The Blackbird Academy was founded by recording/live sound engineer John McBride and his wife, country artist Martina McBride. The two created the Blackbird Studio complex in 2002, hosting recording artists such as Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Kid Rock, Tim McGraw and many more. Sensing a need for quality, hand-on education for studio engineers, they founded the Blackbird Academy. Following its success, the school will expand with a Live Sound Engineering program, which kicks off in January, 2014.

Read More »
Michael Mason with Countryman

Michael Mason Using Countryman Mics for Golden Flutes

CHICAGO, IL — Noted jazz flute performer Michael Mason is now using Countryman Associates’ ISOMAX 2 All-Purpose Microphone for his improvisational artistry. It continues Mason’s 30-year reliance on Countryman mics for his instruments — which now include 14K gold Muramatsu flutes outfitted with 14K gold headjoints from Miyazawa and Nagahara.

Read More »
Dr. Heather Malyuk

Sensaphonics Names Heather Malyuk Staff Audiologist

CHICAGO, IL – Sensaphonics named Dr. Heather Malyuk as the company’s new audiologist.  Dr. Malyuk has worked at Sensaphonics as a clinical extern for the past year, earning doctoral student of the year honors in audiology from Kent State University. She is also an accomplished fiddle and guitar player who still gigs and teaches professionally, specializing in Old Time Appalachian music.

Read More »
Icon Ultra Lounge

ACI Pro Audio Upgrades Icon Ultra Lounge with RCF Gear

LOS ANGELES — For Icon Ultra Lounge, which had been using a rented sound system since it opened in 2011, ACI Pro Audio provided a more permanent setup with RCF gear for the venue’s lounge and rooftop. Components include HDL 20-A Line array boxes, SUB 8006-AS subwoofers and RCF’s P Series All-weather loudspeakers.

Read More »
Adamson_DaftPunk_event

Norwest Provides Adamson Energia E15 System for Daft Punk Album Launch Event

WEE WAA, Australia – To celebrate the release of their latest album, Random Access Memories, Daft Punk planned a performance at a venerable but somewhat obscure three-day farming event in this remote cotton-growing community situated some 350 miles from Sydney. To support the event, Norwest Productions provided the band with an Adamson Energia E15 system. Each of the four arrays consisted of eight Energia E15s with six T21 subwoofers.

Read More »
SoundGrid Server

Waves Audio SoundGrid Extreme DSP Server

Waves Audio calls its SoundGrid Extreme, the latest iteration of its SoundGrid protocol for live applications, the most powerful SoundGrid DSP Server yet. The company is touting SoundGrid Extreme’s ability to tackle a variety of heavy-duty processing challenges.

Read More »
Scraft_Moya

U.K. Tour Manager, Engineer Rely on Soundcraft Technologies for European Tours

LONDON, UK – Tour manager Tim Boardman and sound engineer Bryony October have been providing smaller-scale tours for Moya and other artists in Europe with big-production sound with Soundcraft Si Performer 3 and Si Expression consoles. Along with ease of use, which helped Boardman learn and use the Performer 3 to rescue a show when October had to visit the hospital recently in Dortmund, Germany, the duo credited Soundcraft’s ViSi Remote app for iPad.

Read More »
Alcons Audio @ CATRA theatre Moscow Russia

LTM Music Co. Installs Alcons Audio Gear in Moscow’s CATRA

MOSCOW — The Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army (CATRA)’s recent audio system upgrade included Alcons Audio gear, chosen in part for its ability to be heard but not seen. LTM Music Company provided and installed the gear for the 1,420-seat auditorium. The L-R 14m high mid/high columns each contain QR36, QM36, QR18 and QM18 units, with 12m high bass columns featuring QB363 subs. In total the system includes 28x 18” pro-ribbon drivers, 84x 6.5” M/F drivers and 26x 12” bass drivers.

Read More »