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2011 Chaldean Festival

Bob Seger Comes Home to Detroit

Bob Seger doesn't tour or record often. The "other" Motor City Madman has released all of three LPs in the last 20 years, and the current Silver Bullet Band tour that commenced in March is his first in five years, and only the second in 16 years. However, when you can sell 20 million of those three records in that time (as Rolling Stone points out, Bruce Springsteen has sold only 8 million in the same time frame) and consistently sell out your tour dates every time around, you don't really have to do anything in volume – except turn it up.

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Companies Band Together to Form Rental & Staging Network

Unique Association Marks Impressive Growth during Challenging Times

All the members of the Rental & Staging Network would agree that, as a whole, their organization is greater than the sum of its parts. As it barrels toward its fourth year propelled by a serious growth spurt, the organization continues to strive to be a network of top rental and staging companies joined by a common set of principles, high ethical standards and superior performance. 

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DSP Amplifiers

To download a PDF of the FOH July 2011 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE .

The introduction of digital speaker processors two decades ago allowed users to program complete presets for their speaker systems for the first time, including delay and parametric EQ to optimize multi-way systems beyond simply choosing the best crossover slopes and adjusting individual crossover outputs and then the graphic EQ by ear. 

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PreSonus StudioLive Software Components

Capture, Studio One and Virtual StudioLive

Each of the three mixers in the current StudioLive family – the original 16.4.2, the flagship 24.4.2 and the new compact 16.0.2 – share the ability to be a full FireWire-enabled digital audio recording interface. All three come with Virtual StudioLive control software, Capture for basic digital recording and Studio One for the more advanced work. The included software makes StudioLive consoles veritable Swiss Army knives. This review covers some highlights of each and how they can be implemented in a live setting.

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Logic Systems Sound and Lighting

This multi-million dollar corporation, whose client roster spans all the way up to the President of the U.S., is a bit of an anonymous anomaly – and that's just the way owner Chip Self likes it. "We fly under the radar, as almost everything we do is as a subcontractor," Self says. "We're the people in the background. The way I look at it is that, if anybody notices us, we didn't do it right. Our whole job is to be invisible."

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Waves Plugins (Part 3): H-Comp, Hybrid Compressor

Waves Hybrid Compressor (H-Comp) offers ways for users to achieve dynamic control over horn sources.

To quote Adrian Monk, one of my favorite TV characters, "Here's the thing." Horns are cool. They add excitement, movement, color and personality to arrangements. But horns can be loud. Horns can take over mixes in seconds. Horns need to be respected, but horns need to be respectfully controlled. It's necessary to compress horns, but dynamic control has to be implemented without repressing their timbre, vitality and energy.

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