Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa
Soundco
Concert Systems Production Group
Venue
The Amphitheater at the Wharf
Orange Beach, AL
It’s Summertime… The Sound Season
Okay, you purists out there may insist that summer doesn’t officially kick in for a couple weeks, but it sure feels like summer, for a lot of reasons. The weather’s heating up, the kids are out of school and, if not summer, well… the travel season is well underway. And if truth be told, the sound season is off to a good start and showing signs of good health.
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Audio Technology Takes Stanford University’s GSB Show to the Next Step
On April 27th, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business presented its GSB Show 2012, an entirely student-written/student-run production that provides a humorous reflection on the past academic year. Held in Palo Alto’s 950-seat Spangenberg Theatre and located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, it’s no surprise that technology played an integral role in the production.
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Rob Zombie: Sonic Purity and Sensory Overload
Rob Zombie takes no prisoners. His live show is a full-on assault every second he and his dynamite band — guitarist John 5, drummer Ginger Fish and bassist Piggy-D — are onstage. The group’s blazing metal/hard rock sound pummels the audience, but it’s the multimedia spectacle accompanying Zombie’s dark, tongue-in-cheek songs that really whips them into submission: Thousands of bizarre images flash on screens behind the stage — everything from hypnotic op-art visuals (on “Living Dead Girl”), to flowing blood (on “Dragula”), to eerie old black & white footage from a 1930s Frankenstein film (for “Jesus Frankenstein”), to flashing patterns, flaming pentagrams, pyrotechnics and the occasional lyric prompt for the crowd to shout out with the charismatic Mr. Zombie. Real flames burst up from behind the band, skeletons adorn the sides of the stage, and other strange characters appear for a few moments, then vanish in this macabre rock nightmare.
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Audio-Technica ATM510
Audio-Technica’s ATM510 cardioid dynamic handheld microphone is a rugged, full metal shaft mic fitted with a rare-earth Hi-Energy® neodymium magnet structure that is holstered in an internal shock mount to reduce handling and stage noise. The multi-layered grill provides a great first line of defense against the pesky “plosives” and assists in controlling distortion that may be caused from sibilant sounds and wind noise. MSRP is $169, with street pricing around $99.
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Rammstein: Made In Germany Tour Brings The Full Package
Coming on the heels of a sold-out European arena run, German hard rock band Rammstein continues its Made In Germany tour with 21 dates throughout North America. A lot of offshore bands play in the States, but this time, Rammstein brought its entire production. And this was not some partial system with locally supplied racks and stacks. For this tour, a full-tilt, 120-box L-Acoustics rig came along for the ride, assembled, tried and tested before being packed into sea containers for the three-week ocean voyage to the States.
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Getting That Acoustic Sound
Miking Unamplified Instruments Onstage
Larry Cumings is hardly a newcomer to the art of mixing and miking acoustical instruments. This Grammy Award-winning engineer spent nearly a quarter of a century on the road doing FOH with the David Grisman Quintet and has been the audio producer and FOH engineer for the acclaimed Strawberry Music Festival for 30 seasons. Held in a large campground at 4,600 feet, high in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside of Yosemite National Park, the event takes place during the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends each year, with the three-day festival offering a non-stop lineup of bluegrass, folk and other styles of acoustic music.
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