I well remember the early days of digital mixing consoles – it’s hard now to appreciate the technical ambition that lay behind their development or the hostility they frequently encountered.
Or the guts shown by their early adopters. I was thrilled by the prospect of a ‘new’ audio technology and the taunt of the possibilities it was beginning to promise, but I was horrified by the resistance those early desks met.
I’ve been in demand, I’ve had my disciples – I’ve even been prayed to. I’ve accepted surrender and certainly done some some soul searching while alone in the bathroom. I am the engineroom of every classic rock band and the underlying performance requirement of every reggae gig and nightclub sound system...
Yes people, I am the beat, and it’s all about me.
I got a text message from the Cropredy Festival in the UK: ‘Any questions 4 rick wakeman?’With the recent arrest of an Italian man for firing a rifle into the air and then ramming a public bar with his car, and the earlier arrest of a man for the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in Durban, you can’t deny that the sound of vuvuzela trumpets – wherever they are played – has had an impact beyond that of celebrating football in South Africa (including broadcast complications). It's been dubbed 'vuvuzela rage' by some of the popular press.
Having moved its mixing console production operation from it home in Regensdorf, Switzerland, to its expanding headquarters in the UK, Soundcraft Studer could have taken the opportunity to unencumber itself of a large amount of old equipment, pictures and archives. Thankfully, it has not…
It is with immense excitement that I welcome you to Fast-and-Wide.com, a new blog/website with an agenda that reflects its name.
Although 'Fast-and-Wide' is taken from the generic description of high-performance digital bus, it also neatly fits the need for information exchange if we are to make the most of unprecedentedly rapid technological advance and the fallout from global recession.