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
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
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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South Beach Pinkroom Equipped with Loudspeakers in X-Fashioned Configuration
The Pinkroom nightclub in Miami's South Beach is hosting DJs and live bands with a new sound system including D.A.S. Audio Variant and Aero Series 2 loudspeakers chosen by Paradise Production Services.
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Supporting the Full-Scale Production of “Carmen” at London’s O2 Arena
The O2 in London recently hosted a rendition of Bizet's classic opera, Carmen. To convey both the power and subtlety of Bizet's music throughout the 18,000-capacity arena, Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. provided a Meyer Sound reinforcement system.
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Howard Page: Keeping it All in Balance
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 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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In His Own Words: Rob Cubby Colby
"Whether it's speakers on a stick or flying a PA, the only difference is the size of your toolbox."
Rob "Cubby" Colby is known to most as a world-class engineer whose career spans nearly four decades. His résumé covers many genres and reads like a Who's Who of artists, from the early days of Prince and Phil Collins to the artist he's currently touring with, Juanes. But this article isn't about microphones or mixing techniques. It's about Cubby and how he's endured and adjusted throughout the years…in his own words.
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South Florida Community College Gets World-Class Sounding PAC
"This is a state-of-the-art facility with features you would normally only find in a building that was built from the ground up," Brad Garven says. "It was an unusual renovation."
Make that an extensive renovation.
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AKG DMS 700 Digital Wireless
Once again, I find myself running late on the review, which undoubtedly makes someone pissed off at me. And as with most of the reviews I procrastinate on, I wish that I had done it sooner, because I usually find myself pleasantly surprised. This go-around, my victim is AKG's DMS 700 Digital Wireless RF system, using AKG's DSR 700 digital receiver.
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Allen & Heath iLive T-Series
The T-Series is the latest addition to the growing iLive family of digital consoles. Within the T-Series family, there are two different control surfaces, the T-80 and the T112. Both control surfaces are accompanied by two different MixRacks named the iDR-32 and iDR-48. The system that I was sent to review was the T112 surface with the iDR-48 MixRack.
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