NEW YORK – The crowds at Rockefeller Plaza Nov. 30 were dazzled by the sight of some 30,000 LED lights on the 74-foot-high holiday tree, but the annual 2010 lighting ceremony didn't belong to lampies alone.
Read More »I got an interesting e-mail last month. Took me a while to answer. Came from a kid in a to-remain-unnamed European country working to make a rep for himself as a live audio engineer and service provider. Nice kid. We have corresponded a few times over several years. (All via ProAudioSpace, BTW. If you are still not on it, you are very much missing out on some good stuff.)
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The holiday season has enough stresses on its own without adding a two-week, 12-show tour with longtime music superstars Vince Gill and Amy Grant. But Hugh Johnson, 21-year FOH engineer and production manager for Gill, takes it in stride, delivering excellence through consistency with a dedicated production team giving their best each day.
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When the time came to design its new worship facility, church management for White Oak Worship Center (formerly known as Full Gospel Fellowship Church of Danville, VA) knew that a well-implemented audio-visual system could do wonders toward making services more relevant.
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An admission. When I put the wheels in motion to cover Alice in Chains on their stop in Vegas, my motives were less-than-transparent. Truth is, FOH photographer and production manager Linda Evans (who also happens to be my wife) had some really great shots of the band that she took at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, and I really wanted to be able to use them.
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The Audix FP7 Fusion Series drum mic package is a complete mid-level package designed for both studio and stage use that offers working drummers and small soundcos a worthy solution to all their drum and percussion miking needs.
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Editor's Note: Steve submitted this as his regular "On the Digital Edge" column for the January issue of FOH but, as it is a pretty extensive look at the nuts and bolts of a much-used software program, we are running it as a Road Test instead. Same stuff, different header.
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I was working in the Midwest as a sound guy for a local bar band. We were playing at a bar that had a switch installed onstage so the band could turn the jukebox off and on before and after each set. The band was just about ready to kick into the first song of the night when I realized that although the room was quiet, it was because the jukebox was between songs and that nobody on stage had hit the switch.
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Atlanta has been one of the Southeast's major entertainment hubs since the late 1960s. It was home to some of the first large-scale rock festivals, and it has always been an important stop for any significant touring act.
Read More »A turning point in rock ‘n' roll was surely the first time some odd piece of it was transformed from a practical item to a priceless artifact that was priced, finally, on the auctioneer's block. A plain vanilla guitar pick used by Eric Clapton went from someone's personal treasure to becoming part of someone else's memorabilia collection.
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It's interesting how, just when you think you have it all figured out, something breaks and it winds up being something that you've never seen before. Just like the saying goes, "you learn something new every day." I remember when I started in this business, when something like a speaker would blow up, the reasoning would be "because it was driven too hard."
Read More »I love the New Year. It's a chance for us all to do better than we did during the last year. This is true for all aspects of life. However, I am discussing live worship sound and how you can improve yourself in that arena this New Year. As for everything else, there are plenty of TV and radio shrinks to help you there. So, where do we begin?
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