We were scheduled for a new tour of a Steven Sondheim musical review. It required us to provide all sound (10 lavs and six handheld wireless), six monitor mixes plus side fills, some backline for an eight-piece orchestra as well as scenic elements.
Read More »Each of these vignettes about the Nashville touring industry that we've been doing this summer, starting with the May issue of FOH, offers an opportunity to look at another aspect of what is the most highly developed touring sound, lighting/video and staging infrastructure in the world.
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I recently did a small tour around a bunch of churches which included a choir that was mic'd via 14 large diaphragm condensers. It also included a very well-known artist leading the choir who wanted to hear the choir in her side-fill monitors.
Read More »Last month, we looked at a variety of location options for your house of worship mixing console. This month, we will investigate the all-important location and positioning of your FOH speakers.
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As audio engineers, we spend hours of our time learning and mastering the technical aspects of how to create the perfect mix. We seek out and apply new technologies to enhance the sound in any given space as we experiment with innovative techniques of taking sound where it often does not belong.
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QSC changed the R in RMX to a C for "contractor" and debuted the CMX series of amps. The CMX Series is available in four models: the CMX 300V, CMX 500V and CMX 800V, housed in a 2RU chassis design; and the CMX2000V, housed in a 3RU chassis design; with power ranges from 185 watts to 2500 watts per channel.
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Renkus-Heinz is distributing the new Aubion x.8 8-channel A/D-D/A converter from Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG), developed by AFMG and German hardware designers DSpecialists. The Aubion x.8 is designed to complement AFMG's EASERA and SysTune.
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WISEMANS FERRY, Australia – Norwest Productions deployed EAW KF740 line arrays for one of the six main stages at the Playground Weekender music festival, where artists including Bjorn Again and Orbital, among others, performed. Norwest chose the EAW gear for its combination of sound quality, accuracy and ease of rigging.
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LONDON – Ellie Goulding is touring the European festival circuit with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 compact Control Surface managing monitors. Monitor engineer Steve Pattison uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check and move around the venue during the show.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Electrosound handled all the sound production for the main stage and sound distribution for the TV-4 OB truck during the June wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden with longtime partner Daniel Westling.
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NEWBURY, U.K. – Graham Blake, monitor engineer for Simply Red's worldwide farewell tour, is using the Midas XL8 live performance system. The tour provided Blake, who had completed the training with Midas' brand development manager Richard Ferriday some eight months earlier, with an opportunity to use the XL8 on the road for the first time.
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MANHATTAN, KS – First Assembly of God Church recently renovated their sanctuary with design and installation services provided by MSM Systems (Lawrence, KS). The church makeover included complete audio, video, lighting and acoustic systems.
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