Be afraid, be very afraid, but don’t despair: The world will get scarier — you just need to get the right costume.
t’ll be Halloween in a couple of weeks, so it’s time to toss a little scare out there. During a deep dive into the changing production-rehearsal studio market recently, I learned that the average size of rehearsal rooms is getting bigger.
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Let’s do a little math. (I know, you hate math.) But do it anyway. Let’s suppose a 32-channel digital mixing console has a retail price of $15,000. And let’s say that this mixing desk has 16 outputs. That yields a total of 48 I/O channels, each of which requires a certain amount of audio circuitry. Granted, most of the audio processing happens in the digital domain, so we’re not exactly in need of 48 hardware parametric EQs, but we certainly do need 48 amplifiers plus A/D and D/A conversion. That comes to around $312 per channel.
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The first time I heard the term “virtual sound check,” I wasn’t sure exactly what it meant. In fact, the idea of using pre-recorded multi-tracks as sound check material goes way back. I’ve been playing back multi-track audio as a teaching tool for well over a decade, before I even heard the term “virtual sound check.” I have no idea who came up with this or who tried it first, but certainly it has been around for quite some time, going back to the days when brave souls toured with racks of Alesis ADATs and Tascam DA-88 tape drives.
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I have a confession to make. Like many other folks in the business of audio, I am a recovering gearaholic. While having a compulsion for collecting equipment may sound somewhat innocuous compared to other forms of addiction, I can honestly stand before you and say that the habit is real and the consequences of said craving can be severe and debilitating.
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There are certain times that mark the end of summer. After all those Labor Day picnics, it’s time to pack that Weber grill back into the garage and get the kids off to school. Heck, fall officially kicks in on September 22, so pretty soon, many of us will be enjoying the changing of the season, with trees exhibiting their amazing annual display of fall colors.
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The Korn/Rob Zombie Tour might just be the best-kept secret of the summer. “It’s selling really well,” says Zombie’s FOH engineer Mark Woodcock. “Besides the Guns N’ Roses tour, it’s the #1 rock act of the summer. The reviews have been great — both bands sound great, and the lighting and staging on both shows are spectacular. And it really is two different shows. At first, the way they look together might seem like a bizarre combination, but it totally works.”
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