We were doing a three-day business-to-business networking conference in a converted warehouse on a pier on the East River in New York. Our company provided sound reinforcement and A/V for a stage with the evening entertainment, an area where several hundred attendees were served meals and listened to speeches, as well as several booths.
Read More »One of the many strengths of Digidesign's Venue live mixing system is its ability to easily integrate (or one might even say "morph") into a multitrack recording system.
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Although Solotech made a big splash with the opening of its 30,000-square-foot warehouse space that includes a rehearsal room for acts getting ready for tours and an audio video shop, the company has actually had a presence in Las Vegas since the early 1990s when the first Cirque du Soleil show opened with a audio system supplied by the main office in Montreal.
Read More »One of the cool things about having a database of 22,508* subscribers, according to the June 2009 BPA statement, is the ability to ask our subscribers who they are and how FOH affects their professional lives.
All right, kids, the topic of today's story is powered wedges. I'll preface this with a small story. This test is a continuation of a small shootout that we did here at the shop a while back. The original shootout was between L-Acoustics, Turbosound, JBL VP and DAS powered wedges.
I met with Joe O'Herlihy, U2's audio director and FOH mixer, in the Nevada desert just outside of Las Vegas. U2 was playing in Sam Boyd Stadium on Oct 23. This was one of the many stops on the bands' very ambitious 360º tour. Ambitious not for the amount of dates played, but because of the size, scope and magnitude of the 360º project.
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For the 2,150-seat theater built for Cirque du Soleil's ZED at Tokyo Disney Resort, sound designers François Bergeron and Vikram Kirby are using Meyer Sound's Constellation electroacoustic architecture to invite guests into a world of imagination.
The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, a landmark since the Roaring Twenties, has been inducted as a member of the Historic Hotels of America. But the sound system used for its six sizable ballrooms was a source of frustration to the hotel staff.
Read More »We are all hoping that the coming year is going to be better than the one that just passed and I am very much among those hoping. I mean, how long can it go on? And entertainment is more immune to downturns than other sectors of the economy, right?
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You had to be there.
You had to be there to see a hilariously self-deprecating Dennis DeYoung emcee. You had to be there for touching, moving documentaries on the three Parnelli honorees, Stan Miller, Jake Berry and Richard Belliveau, You had to be there for the surprise winners and their usually unconventional acceptance speeches.
Read More »Last month I had the best work assignment in the company, hands down. I was asked to travel (OK, traveling sucks but it got me that last Southwest roundtrip I needed to qualify for a freebie, and anyway, it gets better…) to New York to cover the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts.
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AUSTIN, TX — Austin City Limits Music Festival featured 130 bands one eight stages in three days of performances. Robert Ausmus of LD Systems (Houston, TX) and his crew relied on an Electro-Voice X-Line line array loudspeaker system to provide sound reinforcement for the Xbox 360 stage.
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