Pausing to draw breath between a 73-date, four-continent tour that included Oceania, Central and South America, and Europe in support of their seventh album Clancy and returning to the road for further dates in the US and Canada to promote their ninth, Breach, Twenty One Pilots can reflect on their choice of a Cohesion PA system for all.
Having hosted performances by Albert Mangelsdorff and Dexter Gordon among other notable artists, Jazzclub Karlsruhe has secured a lasting…
SynthTemple – a hybrid space combining a fully operational recording studio with a museum of electronic instruments – in the Melbourne…
As the TED Organisation’s relationship with its PA supplier neared its end, audio consultant Michael Nunan was working on a TED Countdown…
French company Smode Tech has struck a partnership with Cercle Odyssey, the world’s first large-scale 360° immersive concert, to provide…
Carne y Arena is Alejandro G Iñárritu’s first venture into virtual reality. With it, the Oscar-winning director offers an ‘immersive’ experience representing refugees and immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border.
To create the levels of realism required, the custom VR technology used for the installation includes Meyer Sound loudspeakers capable of producing very high SPL at frequencies extending below the threshold of hearing.
Released in March 1967, ‘Arnold Layne’ was the first of eight singles from the fledgling Pink Floyd that year. Fifty years on, and with an unassailable place in rock music history, Pink Floyd are the focus of an exhibition at London’s V&A Museum.
Rich in memorabilia, the exhibition is prefaced by the EMI console used for the recording of The Dark Side of the Moon displayed in the museum’s foyer and is littered with instruments and equipment from every stage of the band’s career.
Sharing time and a couple of bottles of Asahi with another former pro audio magazine editor in the bar of London’s Metropolis Studios recently, the hoary subject of equipment reviews raised its head once again. The observation this time was a new one, however…
It was the attention given to dedicated plug-ins as compared to the onboard effects suites found on live mixing desks.
Sometime around 1975-76 I wanted an MXR Phase 90 for my Wurlitzer electric piano – I wanted what the ‘real’ keyboard players of the time were using. Instead, I bought the cheaper Electro-Harmonix Small Stone, believing it to be the poor man’s alternative. I was wrong.
That both effects have since become effects icons and remain in production today is a clue to just how wrong I was…
London’s busy Tottenham Court Road is a slightly less frenetic place after the completion of ‘an incredible expansion’ at Forever Audio (formerly SNK Studios), including the opening of a Dolby Certified mix and ADR studio. Occupying six floors, the facility includes audio post studios with voiceover booths, and a track-lay suite.
Founded in 2003, the studio has mixed countless TV and radio commercials, programmes, documentaries, promos and films.
Among the oldest houses of worship in Europe, Sweden’s Uppsala Cathedral is renowned for its architecture and history, and has been a protected structure since 2010. Accordingly, Viktor Wadelius has worked to update the building’s technical infrastructure without harming its stonework.
When it came to sound reinforcement, Renkus-Heinz Iconyx offered the combination of control and quality required by the challenging acoustic.
Hull began its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture with Made in Hull, a week of mixed media sound, lighting and visual installations depicting the city and its people over almost a century. Audio specialist tube uk became part of the story by specifying, rigging and tuning audio systems for six interactive works.
tube worked closely with BAFTA and Ivor Novello Award-winning sound designer and composer Jones who created content and curated each of the installations.
My local pub has a split personality. Or, maybe, it’s more like a secret identity – a single location but with two roles in life.
For some of us, it’s a friendly place where we can go to talk, laugh and read, and with ready access to music for any occasion or discussion. For others, it’s a fully-fledged sports bar, with access to all the required TV channels, and comfortably more screens than it has walls. And that is where our story starts...
I once read that smell is our strongest associative sense. I’ve since tried to establish the relative ability of our other senses to evoke memories – most recently after hearing the award-winning Notes on Blindness discussed at The Sound of Story conference.
One of the film’s producers told the story of its making and its reliance on sound… but let’s start at the very beginning.
The culmination of six years of fundraising, an intensive location search, and an extensive design and build programme, KEXP 90.3 FM Radio now occupies a 25,0000sq-ft, US$15m broadcast/live production complex in the shadow of Seattle Center’s iconic Space Needle.
The station is now set to build on its role in the important Seattle music scene, and Public Radio’s stature within the local, national and global radio/internet community.
With a face familiar from his role as LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield and Captain Nathanial Barnes in Gotham, US actor Michael Chiklis is also keen to be recognised as a recording artist.
‘It’s frustrating just getting people to listen,’ he says. ‘No-one was looking for music from me. One of the greatest joys is hearing from people who have just turned on to the music – once they hear it, they’re onboard.’
US recording specialist United Recording has established an archiving division based around what is currently perhaps the most complete, purpose-built archiving suite operating – a secure, climate-controlled suite that features such attention to detail as a specially built anti-static floor to prevent any electrical mishaps.
A full-time dedicated maintenance staff means the gear is well cared for and running correctly at all times.
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