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Sometimes All It Takes is a Leap Of Faith

How the hell did I end up here? How does a guy with an intense fear of falling-who gets nervous on a stepladder-find himself on a warm Sunday night in June standing on a small platform 855 feet above the Las Vegas Strip and prepping to step off said platform into, well, into nothing but air?

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Lending a Helping Hand to the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville Artists

Ryan Smith, Shure regional artist relations manager in Nashville (second from the right), is joined by several friends and fellow members of the Nashville music community to assist in the clean-up efforts at the SoundCheck rehearsal facility.

In early May, the city of Nashville experienced some of the worst flooding in its history, which affected countless homes, studios, and venues, including the historic Grand Ole Opry House. Soundcheck, a large rehearsal facility and home to Shure's Nashville office, was partially submerged in up to four feet of water.

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Micro-Brewing a Better Sound Experience

Newer Yard House locations have been equipped with Ashly gear.

With a budget of nearly $250,000 per restaurant for AV systems, CEO and founder Steele Platt clearly places a premium on the sound systems that go into Yard House restaurants. And along with the usual 100 to 250 varieties of beer on tap, 23 of the newest Yard House restaurants are using Ashly Protea DSP hardware ne24.24M audio processing.

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Howard Page: Keeping it All in Balance

Sting system engineer Markus Meyer, left, and FOH engineer Howard Page, right.

When it comes to the world of live performance audio – be it from a perspective on production, mixing and even system and console design – Howard Page is one of "the guys." To say he has an impressive résumé is such an understatement that it is actually laughable. When A-list mixers including guys like Cubby Colby invoke your name as one of the people they really learned something from, then you know your legacy is pretty much assured.

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Mixing the Modfather

FOH engineer Ange Jones and the Midas XL4 he used at The Royal Albert Hall.

FOH Engineer Ange Jones Supports Paul Weller's Return to The Royal Albert Hall

 

In May, Paul Weller returned to London's Royal Albert Hall to play five dates promoting his new album, Wake Up The Nation.

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