Sammy Adams
Soundco
Stewart Independent Production/Edge Showtek
Venue
O’Laughlin Auditorium/St. Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN
Lady Antebellum’s Own the Night World Tour
Lady Antebellum is an American country music group, fronted by the tight harmonies and songwriting trio of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, who also plays guitar and mandolin. They’re currently touring in support of their third album, Own The Night, released last September, which won Best Country Album at this year’s Grammy Awards, following their previous album, Need You Now, which won five for a career total of seven.
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The Rock Boat
As a recently-married man, I’ve found that there are traditions that you marry into. One of those traditions is annually joining my wife aboard The Rock Boat (therockboat.com), a themed music cruise which is now preparing for its 13th installment, hosted by the band Sister Hazel and boasting 2,000 attendees. The producer, Sixthman, who formed alongside the original Rock Boat more than a decade ago, provides themed cruises for artists as diverse as Kid Rock, Weezer and Zac Brown Band.
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Yamaha CL Series Digital Mixing System
Other than the recent enhancement of the 01V96 and the marvelous StageMix iPad Apps, it has been a quiet spell for new Yamaha digital mixing boards. Their biggest news in years was announced at Frankfurt’s Prolight + Sound last month. The CL Series consists of three consoles, the CL1, CL3 and CL5, ranging from 48 to 72 mono channels plus eight stereo inputs, as well as two Dante-enabled stage boxes.
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Wireless Microphone Update for Unlicensed Users
For the last 22 months, wireless microphones haven’t been allowed to operate in the 700 MHz band (698 – 806 MHz) in the US. Many systems were sold in this spectrum, but are now illegal to resell or operate in the US. This remains news to some wireless users, and illegal 700-band systems can be found in ballrooms, churches and schools, with some continuing to plead ignorance as an excuse.
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Overcoming A New Sanctuary’s Audio Challenges
Hi-Tech Electronics Enhances the Sound at World Overcomers Christian Church
Be more than you have ever been before. Stop being a victim, be a victor. Be an Overcomer!”
That’s the message at Durham, NC-based World Overcomers Christian Church, and it is striking a chord with a growing number of congregants.
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Sennheiser XS Wireless
The Sennheiser XS Wireless comes in five application-specific sets. Two are vocal sets — one with the SKM 35 handheld transmitter featuring Sennheiser’s standard e835 dynamic cardioid capsule; the second, XSW 65, comes with an electret super-cardioid condenser capsule.
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Optogate PB-05 Optical Microphone Signal Gate
Every once in a while, a product comes along that seems so obvious it makes you wonder why someone didn’t invent it a long time before. David Lichterman actually introduced me to the original D3 Optogate at the 1999 Winter NAMM Show. I would like to show you the PB-05.
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Onstage Systems
There are many day-to-day challenges a regional audio company must contend with, but even Hyacinth Belcher couldn’t have imagined police officers storming her office, hands on guns, ready to draw. Co-owner of Dallas-based Onstage Systems with her brother Chris, she laughs about it now, though surely the “raid” got her adrenalin going.
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Renaissance Reverb, Part II
Greetings from Ancona, Italy, located on the beautiful coast of the Adriatic Sea! This latest installment of this column is the twelfth of these reviews describing my experiences with Waves plugins. This year seems to have gone by very rapidly.
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