California Mid-State Fair Concert Series
The series featured Justin Bieber, Aerosmith, Toby Keith and others
Soundco
R & R Sound
Venue
California Mid-State Fairgrounds
Paso Robles, CA
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Thanks To All the “Little People”
Can't remember where I got that phrase. Think some celeb or another used it once to describe the "behind the scenes" people on a film. You know, the ones without which no production would ever happen.
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PLASA 2010 Highlights
As PLASA is a big show, there is no way FOH can cover everything in this limited space. Please note that products not covered here will be covered over the coming months.
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2010 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Randy “Baja” Fletcher
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn issued a joint statement upon hearing the news: "We can't imagine what we did to be blessed with the likes of Randy ["Baja"] Fletcher. We hate to think about what our career might have been like without him, as so many have been won and lost on the road. The importance of a trail boss like Baja is impossible to put into words. Not a show goes by that someone doesn't talk about the quality of our crew, and it all filters down from him."
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No Improvisation Required: Solotech, Gerr Audio and Meyer Sound at the Montreal Jazz Fest
Late June in Montreal, and the weather hasn't been cooperating for the Montreal Jazz Fest. It may be the world's largest Jazz Fest, but it's still an outdoor festival, with all the unpredictability that entails. Around 2 in the afternoon, after a morning of solid rain, the clouds parted long enough for Jess Gagnon, FOH mixer for Canadian trip-rock band Beast, to run sound check-but the plastic dome tent over FOH stayed up and the plastic tarp to cover the console stayed close at hand.
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On the Road with Justin Bieber
The Bieber Crew: Jerrell Evans, Gordon Mack, Tony Luna, Rob Rankin and Nathan McBee
Had you asked me six months ago who Justin Bieber was, I couldn't have given you an honest answer. Seriously, I had zero knowledge of this 16-year-old Canadian phenom.
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Shure PSM 900 Personal Monitor System
The idea of having sound directly delivered to our clients' ears and having each person control their own levels without affecting others on stage is brilliant. Through my company, Onyx Sound, we have provided IEMs for a number of years to our clients and have liked them for the most part. As a result of these good experiences, we purchased Sennheiser EW300 IEM G2s and EW300 IEM G3 systems.
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Line 6 XD-V70 Wireless System
Working with a mid-sized sound company (HAS Productions) in Las Vegas, I get to wear a lot of different hats. On any given gig in any given week, I could be a system tech, an audio babysitter making sure the band's guy does not blow anything up, or mixing anything from a B-level national to a local band.
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Westone ES5 IEMs
It was not that long ago – less than a year – that I swore off personally reviewing in-ear personal monitors. I have done so many reviews that I have multiple units from most of the major players. I have not heard/used the stuff made by JH Audio or Fidelity, but I have, or have used, multiple models by Future Sonics, Sensaphonics, Ultimate Ears and Westone.
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SSE Audio Group: More than a Rental Company
In 1975, two penniless students living "the original hippie counter-culture lifestyle" began working with blind ambition from a garage in Nottingham, England, begging, borrowing and stealing, determined to bring their dreams of creating an audio business to fruition.
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Naked Guy and Mace…Bad Combo
Around 1990 I was working for a sound company in Cleveland Ohio, and my first day on the job, we did a show with Murphy's Law, The Dwarves and The Exploited. Murphy's Law plays, nothing out of the ordinary happens. Perfect. We do the set change and out come the Dwarves. I remember the singer wearing a tutu, but the guitar player was naked. Wearing only his guitar and some beaten up tennis shoes.
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