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From recording, broadcast, postproduction and A/V
5SOS Get Star Billing
Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer are currently travelling the world with their Everyone’s a Star! World Tour, making the sound team an early adopter both of L-Acoustics Source Intelligence – after participating in its development – and Shure’s Axient Digital in-ear monitors.
Covered Bridge breaks cover
Opened less than a year ago in downtown Nashville by studio manager and engineer Grace Ritter and her partners, Covered Bridge Recording was designed from the ground up around the Genelec 9.1.4 Smart Active Monitoring system that serves as the heart of the studio’s Dolby Atmos production environment.
Vietnam gets first SSL Origin
Music production company OnlyCproduction has installed the first Solid State Logic Origin analogue mixing console in Vietnam. The 32-channel desk is to be found in the Ho Chi Minh City studio of musician, singer and producer OnlyC.
Recording Hawaii’s whale song
Armed with Sennheiser HD 300 PROtect headphones, Sennheiser MKH 8020 mics and a bespoke 3D hydrophone array, nature sound recordist Thomas Rex Beverly recently visited Hawaii’s Big Island and French Polynesia in pursuit of high-definition, spatialised recordings of whales – the likes of which researchers had previously been unable to make.
Zimmer vs Williams
The recent Music of Zimmer vs Williams show at the Royal Albert Hall brought a spatial twist to the sound through use of a 64-channel TiMax SoundHub – bringing the ‘beyond stereo’ thinking FOH engineer Phil Wright had seen succeed at festivals and other events.