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Penatonix – When the Voice is the Band

Back in January 2015, FOH engineer Chris Aman answered the door of his Thompsons Station, TN home. Sound Image had delivered an Avid VENUE Profile console so he could start building the show for his newest client, Pentatonix. After winning the third season of NBC’s The Sing Off in 2011, the five-member a cappella group continued growing in popularity and was now going out on its biggest tour yet. And Aman suddenly realized what he was up against.

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The Neighbourhood 2016 Wiped Out tour photo by Steve Jennings

The Neighborhood ‘Wiped Out!’ Tour

In five short years, the Newbury Park, CA-based quintet The Neighbourhood has made its presence known, earning a prime spot at SXSW, performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live and performing in Europe and throughout the U.S. Currently on tour supporting Wiped Out!, the band’s second album, The Neighbourhood is selling out halls and theaters.

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Installs in Las Vegas

Rebounding from recession, business in Las Vegas is back on a growth track, with a resurgence in tourists, conventioneers and club-goers joined by an influx in residents who are drawn, not just by the casinos, but also by a revitalized downtown with an emerging arts scene and influx of high-tech startups.

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Sound Designer John Leonard

There is no doubt that John Leonard was pleased to receive the Harold Burris-Meyer Distinguished Career In Sound award — one of the industry’s top honors for sound designers and professionals in theater sound — at the 2016 USITT Expo in Salt Lake City, Yet at the same time, he laughs and points out that “I’m still doing what I’m doing — I’m not dead yet! It’s kind of a lifetime achievement award, but I’m in the middle of working on a show (Hand to God).”

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State of the Loudspeaker: A Future Vision

With the imminent arrival of InfoComm 2016, the professional audio industry is rolling out the booths, demo rooms and display trucks to show off what’s new in professional audio technology. Among the myriad sights and sound, many manufacturers will be displaying their latest and greatest loudspeakers.

 

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The M18 mixer is iPad controlled.

RCF M18 Digital Mixer and EVOX 8 Speakers

Italy-based RCF has a long history of providing solid, dependable gear used in the most critical applications. So when they debuted their new M18 digital mixer and EVOX series of compact column-array speakers, we were interested in checking these out. While not specifically offered as a package, we took both the M18 and an EVOX 8 system out for a real-world test drive, as the combination of the two creates a powerful, compact and easy to use system for portable grab-and-go gigs.

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New Tour, New Speaker System

David Morgan checks out Clair’s Cohesion-12 line array system for James Taylor’s 2016 tour.

This year’s North American James Taylor tour opened in Lubbock, TX in early April. Not only was I eager to once again mix what James often calls “the best band anywhere,” I was excited at the prospect of working on Clair Global’s new Cohesion-12 system. Over the winter, our production team had agreed to upgrade the touring system to include two 16-deep arrays of the Cohesion-12 cabinets that we would use as our front facing columns. The production would be retaining two 12-high arrays of Clair Global i-3 enclosures for our side facing columns.

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Funktion One’s Vero system was beta tested at this year’s Ultra Music Festival in Miami

Funktion One Vero – Leaving Clubworld and Hitting the Road

Miami’s Ultra Music Festival reminds one of Fight Club. Not so much because no one talks about it — they do, sometimes to the exclusion of all else, like they were in mid-March, when half of South Florida ignored the Republican presidential primary held that same week and showed up at Bayfront Park in various stages of dress (or undress) and consciousness. But rather because Ultra, like many EDM fests, has turned into a gut-punch contest, to see whose subs can most efficiently rearrange the audience’s internal organs.

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George Petersen

The Big Show

If you’re involved with installation, integration, production and their allied industries, then you know that InfoComm 2016 has rolled into Las Vegas this month for its annual summer shindig. And for some 40,000 attendees from more than 110 countries, Sin City becomes ground zero for the pro-AV industry.

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The Primacoustic KickStand (shown here with a Shure Beta 52a microphone) is a heavy mic boom-arm isolator that combines a massive stabilizing base with an isolation pad to eliminate stage or drum riser resonance from entering the microphone.

Get Yer Kicks

Everyone likes a little kick drum in their mix. A lot of people like a lot of little kick, or even a lot of big kick in their mix. We at FRONT of HOUSE would like to present some suggestions for getting a killer kick sound without killing yourself.

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