TULSA, OK – Craig Brittain, who has been Michael Bublé's monitor engineer for five years, is supporting the current Crazy Love tour with a DiGiCo SD7 console for Bublé, who recently converted to PMs.
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LONDON – The Friendly Fires' FOH engineer Richard "Bars" Barling was one of the first users to put the new Soundcraft Vi1 digital consoles through its paces at a private corporate event at a jazz venue.
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LAS VEGAS – EAW announced that Lake, Lab.gruppen and Powersoft have agreed to integrate proprietary EAW DSP algorithms into a subset of their respective product lines, and that EAW will include Lake, Lab.gruppen and Powersoft products as components in EAW system sales later this year.
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Among a bunch of other new gear (including a "convert any digital format into any other digital format" box that opens up endless possibilities), Midas brought their acclaimed digital mixers into a price range where they are very much within reach of even regional soundcos. The Midas PRO3 naturally features Midas mic pre's, as well as the popular VCA and POPulation groups, which allow users to navigate channels intuitively, without layers or pages of faders.
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The M-300 Mixing Console provides a third console choice in the growing V-Mixing System lineup that also consists of Digital Snakes, Personal Mixing and Multi-Channel Recording. Its size and affordability allows smaller to mid-sized venues to replace their analog consoles with a digital mixing solution.
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Line 6, Inc.'s XD-series line of digital wireless microphone systems includes two handheld cardioid microphone systems, XD-V30, shown here, and XD-V70, and two beltpack systems, XD-V30L and XD-V70L.
Read More »A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine sent me a link to a video. Her name is Cheryl Cobb, but her maiden name is Evans, and we knew each other in junior high school but had not had contact for 20 years when I unknowingly asked her husband to do keyboard reviews for me back when I was editing GIG.
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I first met David Eisenhauer when he was mixing Paul Simon for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shows in NYC. We only got to talk for a couple of minutes, and he said he would really like FOH to come out and cover the opening of the new Giant's Stadium with Bon Jovi.
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It was Wednesday evening when I opened an e-mail from Bill Evans, my editor (and friend). "This is a super big deal," he wrote. "Can you go to this party in Van Nuys on Saturday?" "Absolutely," I answered. It really doesn't take a lot to get me to a party. I was promised good music, celebs and an open bar. What more could I ask for?
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On Saturday, March 27, composer Michel Legrand was honored in a star-studded tribute held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event was filmed for a PBS concert special and featured a 66-piece orchestra as well as performances by Dionne Warwick, George Benson, Melissa Manchester, Frank Sinatra Jr., Andy Williams, Jerry Lewis and others, and Jon Voight and Jennifer O'Neill hosted the tribute.
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Regulars at InfoComm will see some new faces there this year, ones that are already very familiar to those in the pro audio and MI sides of the business. Germany-based Behringer, maker of audio mixers, signal processors, amplifiers (both power and guitar types), various musical instruments, PA systems and lighting systems, will be there to launch themselves into the systems installation space.
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Mickey Gilley's legacy as an icon of country music was already secure when he opened his original namesake bar and honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas in 1971. With its mechanical broncos and classy roadhouse vibe, the club was further immortalized as the centerpiece of the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, setting the benchmark for hip country music bars from coast to coast.
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