London’s Ronnie Scott’s Soho jazz club has opened Upstairs at Ronnie’s, built from the ground up to create the greatest small live music venue in the world. ‘We wanted a space where artists and audiences could feel even closer to the music, with every element of the design focused on sound quality, comfort and connection,’ says Technical Manager, Charlie Dale.
The recent Live at Chelsea concert series took place over five nights in June within the courtyard of London’s historic Royal Hospital…
A world tour that includes not just the Gorillaz live band, but guest performers at each show, The Mountain World Tour will play…
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As official audio supplier to host broadcaster ORF for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Sennheiser deployed its largest Spectera…
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.
Taking on location recordings throughout North America, Europe and Russia, recording entrepreneur John Newton refers to ‘exotic locales’ – as exemplified by his most recent project in Russia’s Saratov Cathedral. Here, the founder of Soundmirror Recording has unpacked up his mics to record a male voice choir.
Founded in 1972, Soundmirror has undertaken projects for every major classical label and received more than 80 Grammy nominations and awards.
It seems to have become a common misconception that guitar fuzz boxes and distortion pedals predate more eloquent effects, such as phasing and flanging.
OK, tremolo and spring reverb were originally guitar amp features, and fuzz and distortion evolved from damaged loudspeakers, impedance mismatches and voltage sag. But effects that were developed in the recording studio are the result of earlier experimentation, exploration and serendipity.
Appearing at Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival (BST) for the fourth consecutive year, Martin Audio’s MLA PA delivered its best performance ever – thanks to new system optimisation software.
From the opening blast of Massive Attack to the closing weekend with Mumford & Sons, Take That and Stevie Wonder, the event showed that it continues to evolve in terms of technical development.
When designing their ‘green’ 5,000-sq-ft Victorian home in the Washington, DC-area, Matt MacPhail and wife, Ann Lyles MacPhail, were committed to using sustainable, efficient building techniques and materials.
They were also set on a having professionally designed, acoustically superlative recording studio to serve their thriving audio production business, News At Eleven Productions.
A working lifetime in the making, weeks in preparation, and the presentations lined up for the 2016 Future of Broadcasting conference were thrown a curveball just days ahead of delivery. With the result of the EU Referendum announced on Friday, the conference convened on the following Monday to make its predictions.
With many speakers erring on the side of caution, one stood out – Claire Enders’ warning over future BBC funding…
If you count the green 1970s Carlsbro thing that’s presently in storage in a city 100 miles away, I’m now up to eight footpedal delay units. Before the Carlsbro there was a Watkins Copicat. I love my echoes...
Recently, it seemed the right time to sort all those boxes out – to decide what each was capable of and best at, and decide how to use them. It wasn’t long before it all got rather interesting.
Taking place for the fourth time in California’s Napa Valley, the BottleRock festival combines live music on multiple stages with the region’s tradition of wine, brewing and food.
Additional attractions for the discerning music fan were the live debut Alcons LR18 pro-ribbon loudspeaker system on the Lagunitas Stage and the inaugural use of Vue Audiotechnik’s al-12 on the Miner Family Winery Stage.
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