A lot of commentary I have heard is that many modern consoles do not have the warmth or fidelity that classic analog circuitry consoles do have. Yeah, many of these consoles are digital and the flexibility in the digital realm is hard to argue for the money invested. But are there tricks and techniques that we can employ to warm up these cold sounding consoles?
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Despite all of our expertise and experience, we live in a world where entropy appears to be the norm and there is no real assurance that our endeavors will lead to success. Without bloviating or waxing poetic regarding our collective attempts to manipulate and control chaos, Murphy’s Law simply states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
Read More »For the past couple of weeks I have been working with a couple of “veteran” sound guys trying to put together a tribute to one of the giants of live event audio industry. I have always thought that we tend to wait too long to pay tribute to people who deserve it and that we should do it while they can still see and appreciate it. It has been a moving and humbling experience.
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In 1978, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds made its debut. This year, The War of the Worlds — Alive On Stage paid homage to Wayne’s Worlds in arenas around the UK and Europe. RG Jones, meanwhile, supplied a Synco by Martin Audio-based sound system for the touring spectacle
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FOH engineer Blake Suib has a resume that includes artists from Prince to Annie Lennox and was presented on this tour with a huge challenge—covering 360 degrees without blocking very large video screens that play a big part in the show.
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I am one of the fortunate few sound guys that is also a musician and earns a living doing both. I am also one of even fewer who get the honor to travel overseas entertaining our troops, which I have been doing since 2001. These tours have taken me, multiple times, to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Italy, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and a few of the other “-stan” countries.
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When Bret Lambert, owner of Procure Distributing in Owasso, Okla., walked into the University Heights Baptist Church earlier this year, he was a bit surprised. It wasn’t the complete gutting and rebuilding of the church’s sanctuary, not the expanse of musical styling that the members perform or the fact that so much happens in this Stillwater church that they had to update their PA. No, what surprised him was what was already installed.
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I have been a fan of the X2 stuff ever since they were known as X Wire back in the 1990s. The digital transmission — which meant no companding — offered a sound at least as good as a premium cable.
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Being in the live sound business, and especially towards the ankle-biting side, I get a lot questions of how much audio power or amperes of loading a typical circuit can handle before tripping the circuit breaker.
Read More »Many of you walk into your church just before the service begins; you turn on the system and wait for the congregation to show up. You do your mixing job, turn off the system and go home. This approach to mixing is not a problem unless some piece of gear or cable fails, then you’re stuck, and so is the congregation.
Read More »As you all know by now, Bernie Madoff is in jail and serving a sentence of 150 years. It’s an absurd number of years for anyone to be sentenced, and considering that Madoff is now in his 70s, barring some sort of divine intervention, he will in reality probably only serve 15 or 20 years of said sentence before he dies in prison.
Read More »Yes I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late
The cannons don’t thunder
There’s nothing to plunder
I’m an over 40 victim of fate
—Jimmy Buffett