That hedline (yes, that's spelled right. It's an antiquated newsroom thing. We also call the first paragraph of a story a "lede") is a little misleading. It's the end of the year. Of course we are going to look back. It's one of those human nature issues.
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LONDON – The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.
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In a time when pop music careers are measured in weeks instead of decades and the next big thing will fade by tomorrow, the second biggest tour of the year featured two old friends both in their 60s doing a show that felt like it could be in a small club – or sometimes in your living room. James Taylor and Carole King took a show that started out as a short series of dates in L.A. and put it on the road, consistently selling out 20K arenas and sounding great at every stop. Manning the console was veteran mixer David Morgan who had an advantage going in. He had the trust of everyone on stage.
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For the fourth successive year, Duran Audio provided all PA systems for Open Source Festival, which took place at the picturesque Grafenburg race course in the heart of Düsseldorf, Germany.
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St. Elias Maronite Church in Birmingham, AL follows in a tradition that dates back to Maron, a hermit monk whose life of prayer and meditation in the mountains near Antioch, Syria, inspired others to also make sacrifices in support of their faith.
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We are all familiar with the legendary AKG C 414 microphone and all of its incarnations. Actually, that statement may be incorrect. I currently specialize in live sound reinforcement, but all of my C 414 use was during my studio engineering days.
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So FOH editor Bill Evans gave me a buzz and asked me to look at these products and offer my thoughts. He contacts me when he wants that everyday, Joe Schmo opinion on something. Occasionally, he wants me to be hypercritical and nit-picky to avoid manufacturer hyperbole and puffery (thanks for the new vocabulary word, Papa Johns!).
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Like so many people who founded regional sound companies, twin brothers Anthony and James Cioffi – who run the very successful Boulevard Pro in northern New Jersey ("seven miles from Times Square," Anthony points out) – started out as musicians.
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8 a.m., Sunday morning, and the big Christmas program at Trinity Church International in Lake Worth, FL is about to get underway. Loads of planning, months of rehearsals, hiring a string and horn section (small orchestra) went into this. plus stage setup, chairs, mics, and programmed lights. It's gonna be a great show.
Read More »By the time you read this, the Fall 2010 AES in San Francisco will have long come and gone, but thankfully, the toys will remain. As we'd all have expected, there were cool product announcements for both studio and stage, among them the RM 510 microphone capsule from beyerdynamic.
Read More »Making a decision on the type of system to purchase is a very difficult task. Any wrong choice can make or break a company, especially in today's economy. That's why it is important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of different technologies and make the best choice for whatever the situation may be.
Read More »The larger pro media arts & sciences schools have been steadily adding and expanding their course offerings, and many have taken the next logical step and are adding online courses, just as their more conventional college and university counterparts are doing. But how does live sound fare when it hits the broadband pipe?
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