“Be afraid, be very afraid!” At least that’s the message that I am receiving from all of the six major media broadcasters I have been following — and rightly so. On Nov. 13, 2015 attackers in Paris killed 130 people, including 89 at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan Theatre.
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Sometimes, you just outgrow your name. When it happens, it’s better to embrace it.
The company formerly known as Entertainment Metals, a provider of precision metal and cabling solutions for the professional audio, video, broadcast, theater and install markets announced recently an all-inclusive corporate re-branding initiative starting in 2016.
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How many times can you reinvent the wheel? A direct box may seem like a simple piece of gear — and some are, such as Radial’s acclaimed JDI line of passive direct boxes. But when active processing enters the picture, Radial has been known to break out of that “just a direct box” mold with some creative designs and features that redefine the modern direct box. In fact, Radial seems to do this on a regular basis and improves on it every time. The Mk5, the latest version (and fifth generation) of the company’s popular JDV active direct box, features some interesting and useful innovations that take it well beyond the norm.
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The first multi-track recorder I ever owned was a Tascam DA-88. In subsequent years, I used a lot of Tascam MX2424’s, Alesis HD24’s, and for the last six years or so, I’ve almost exclusively used DAW’s such as Pro Tools and Nuendo for live multi-track recording.
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It was hard trying to catch up with father and son Mario and Carmen Educate to discuss On Stage Audio’s past 30 years — they were both busy working on the next 30. “We stay in this business because we have a passion for it,” Mario says. “Yes the investments get larger, and competition gets tougher, but the main thing is we keep the right people working with us. Our employees have a passion for what we do.”
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Somewhere between a university course study and a fantasy camp for audio pros lies the educational territory occupied by the Blackbird Academy. Located at Blackbird Studio, this institute of specialized learning is nestled into what seems to be an unassuming residential neighborhood in Nashville’s Berry Hill area. However, in these few blocks, more than 40 recording studios are hidden within the walls of wood frame structures that were originally constructed years ago as military housing. Even Blackbird’s street address, Azalea Place, conjures an image of the Old South. While there’s a definite sense of history here, it is not about events that have been recorded in textbooks, romanticized in novels, recreated in movies or captured in songs. The history of this small region has instead been stored on magnetic tape, vinyl, CDs and hard drives.
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My Apple AirBook cost $1,500, but it is orders of magnitude above the computation power of bulkier computers costing more than twice that much a decade or so ago. My iPhone, which cost $650, could have landed Apollo 11 on the moon and had number-crunching horsepower to spare. Examples of Moore’s Law abound. I found another example of this recently in the middle of Iowa.
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