Live Sound
You could spend the better part of your days comparing speakers in search of the “best.” Even within a single manufacturer’s product line, there are subtle and obvious variations between speakers. Some of those variances are visible while others are guarded in the secret scrolls of specifications. With prices ranging from hundreds to many thousands of dollars, all those differences must matter, right? Yes! As you might suspect, some details matter more than others. Understanding how a speaker’s specs affect its performance is crucial to
It seems that every day in most cities around the nation, there are concerts, theatrical productions, and songs performed at houses of worship. People often want to relive the experience and make it available to others who couldn’t be present for the original event. Multitrack recording unlocks the greatest potential for high-quality capture and reproduction of the audio from the live event. In live productions, all used channels get recorded simultaneously. So, track counts can easily fall into the 20 to 70 range. Companies such as Midas, QSC
by Nicholas Messitte ·Posted
Just in time for NAMM 2018, Tascam—a brand famous for its analog recording solutions—is jumping into the forefront of digital technology. Yes, the company has decided to fashion a Dante interface, doing so in a relatively simple form factor with two new rackmount units: The ML-16D and the ML-32D.
Both units are
by Nicholas Messitte ·Posted
The sound engineer. Ah, yes. As a performing musician, I’ve encountered my fair share of them, so I understand the stereotype. They can seem disinterested, a bit preoccupied, perhaps brusque.
And sure, there are bad apples out there. I'll never forget playing Kenny’s Castaways (a classic, now-defunct New York City venue), the engineer loping onto the stage mid-song to swap out my microphone while I was singing. Startled by this, I refused to play Kenny’s for years.
That sound engineer became an emblem to me. I had no pathos for him—that is,