“I’m Not Asking You To Work For Free… OK, I Am.”
A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine sent me a link to a video. Her name is Cheryl Cobb, but her maiden name is Evans, and we knew each other in junior high school but had not had contact for 20 years when I unknowingly asked her husband to do keyboard reviews for me back when I was editing GIG.
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Big Steel and Bad Medicine: Bon Jovi Mixer David Eisenhauer
I first met David Eisenhauer when he was mixing Paul Simon for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shows in NYC. We only got to talk for a couple of minutes, and he said he would really like FOH to come out and cover the opening of the new Giant's Stadium with Bon Jovi.
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Small Gear, Big Sound at the Constantly Changing Cultural Carnival
It was Wednesday evening when I opened an e-mail from Bill Evans, my editor (and friend). "This is a super big deal," he wrote. "Can you go to this party in Van Nuys on Saturday?" "Absolutely," I answered. It really doesn't take a lot to get me to a party. I was promised good music, celebs and an open bar. What more could I ask for?
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RRS Audio Uses All-Software SAC System for Michael Legrand at the MGM Grand
On Saturday, March 27, composer Michel Legrand was honored in a star-studded tribute held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event was filmed for a PBS concert special and featured a 66-piece orchestra as well as performances by Dionne Warwick, George Benson, Melissa Manchester, Frank Sinatra Jr., Andy Williams, Jerry Lewis and others, and Jon Voight and Jennifer O'Neill hosted the tribute.
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Behringer’s Next BIG Step
Regulars at InfoComm will see some new faces there this year, ones that are already very familiar to those in the pro audio and MI sides of the business. Germany-based Behringer, maker of audio mixers, signal processors, amplifiers (both power and guitar types), various musical instruments, PA systems and lighting systems, will be there to launch themselves into the systems installation space.
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Honky Tonkin’ Down on the Strip
Mickey Gilley's legacy as an icon of country music was already secure when he opened his original namesake bar and honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas in 1971. With its mechanical broncos and classy roadhouse vibe, the club was further immortalized as the centerpiece of the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, setting the benchmark for hip country music bars from coast to coast.
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Church on the Move Gets a Sound Makeover
Church on the Move is a Tulsa, Okla.-based "mega-church" built around the Evangelical ministry of a charismatic transplanted Texan named Willie George. Besides attracting around 10,000 people a week to services at the church, George's organization is also involved in innumerable community outreach programs, a youth summer camp, a Christian school, all sorts of sponsored sports clubs and more.
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Audio-Technica AT4080 and AT4081 Ribbon Mics
Our test pieces for this go-round are a robust pair indeed. We're taking the new A-T 4080 and 4081 ribbon microphones for a spin. In the past, I've found it difficult to remain constructive while reviewing mics. They're one of those things that is most certainly left up to a matter of personal preference.
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WavesLive MultiRack
Unless you have been living in a cave for the past year, you already have heard at least something about the WavesLive MultiRack system. It was first talked about or at least alluded to right after NAMM in 2009. And we said then and maintain after using it that this is a potential game-changer that allows mix engineers to access Waves plug-ins using any console be it analog or digital.
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Phantom Voices
I work at a large contemporary church in suburban St. Louis and ran FOH in our main auditorium for eight identical Easter services. Part of the service involved the band playing along to a timed video, which was being driven via an iMac with the click embedded in the video's audio track.
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