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Yes, we will all sit around bitching about how it
is a recording show masking as a live event show,
but first, here is a look at some of the new toys.
Welcome To My Nightmare
An expanded tale that includes killer eggplant,
broken teeth and cola missiles. And he swears
it’s all true…
FEEDBACK
What Up?
How are you doing? First off, I really like what you guys
do with FOH. The EPD is really a valuable tool, as well. I started
working at the Vic Theater in Chicago in ‘98 and have since
gone on to much bigger things and much smaller gigs. I was
just reading your review on that new Audix mic. It really made
me smile. It’s really hard when the singers bring in the condenser,
and they insist on using it. It’s always the cover/tribute
bands that are like this. These are the same bunch that brings
the two full stacks of 4x12s into a 300-seat bar. It just won’t
work, and they never want to take your advice.
I have been doing this rock ‘n’ roll BS since ‘95 and the majority
still has little or no faith. Sometimes you just have to put
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Features
16 FOH Interview
Not one, not two, but three takes on the worldrenowned
Montreux Jazz Festival.
18 Production Profile
Bikes, babes and big bad bands. Just another
evening at the Buffalo Chip in Sturgis, South
Dakota.
20 Hometown Heroes
We asked, and you voted. Here are the regional
winners in the 4th Annual FOH Hometown Hero
Soundco Awards.
24 Road Tests
The Lex MX300 Effects processor gets juiced
up by a Peavey Distro, and it all ends in a set of
Future Sonics Ear Monitors.
28 Whose Mix Is It Anyway?
A fractured fairy tale about intellectual property,
honorable mixers and the Central Scrutinizer.
30 Product Gallery
Digital EQs are great tools. But the blade cuts
both ways…and it’s sharp
32 Installations
So what if it’s the freakin’ Fillmore? When you
want your own P.A. — and you are Billy Corgan
and Jon Lemon — you get your own P.A.
44 Regional Slants
Cruising with Jonny B. How a prog-rock bass
player grew up to become a solid local and
regional soundco owner.
the earplugs in and go with the flow. Actually, I don’t even
bother trying to explain how the stuff works to the weekend
warriors anymore. It seems better just to tell them that they
rock, and that I really dig what they are doing. I swear they just
don’t believe me when I tell them that Van Halen was using a
little Bluesbreaker amp behind the massive stacks on stage.
Some big acts even have the miked cabs in a road case
just to keep down the SPL. The quieter the stage volume is,
the better it’s gonna sound the majority of the time. I like to
say that some amps and cymbals are for outside use only. The
weirdest thing is that the real artists actually want to work with
you to get the best sound. Local yokels are just like, “I’ve been
working on this guitar sound for years, and it’s the best! ”Or, “
This Beta 87 is the best mic cause it’s the most expensive.”
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OCTOBER
2007, Vol. 6.1
Columns
38 Theory and Practice
Actually, this time out it is theory VERSUS practice.
39 The Biz
What spiraling ticket costs may mean for the
future of the biz.
40 The Bleeding Edge
The MI biz has MIDI. Why can’t pro audio decide
on — and adhere to — a standard for transport
of digital audio?
42 Vital Stats
He may never cop to it, but EAW’s Jeff Cox may
be the individual most responsible for the bandwagon
that line array has become. But he was
the first on it in the U.S.
48 Sound Sanctuary
Even the church market has room for a little
self-power.
52 FOH-At-Large
AES: Let the feeding frenzy begin. Just don’t forget
about that stack of riders back at the shop…
Departments
4 Editor’s Note
2 Feedback
5 News
9 International News
11 On the Move
12 New Gear
14 Showtime
42 In the Trenches
We have a Chi-town cover band called Hairbangers Ball,
and all six of them insist on using the 87s, even the drummer.
The drummer, of course, needs hi hat and overheads
always, no matter what size venue they are playing. It’s
weird, cause I was taught that 80% of what we do is communication,
and 20% is technical. I still believe in this but
know I have learned to pick my battles. Anyways, thanks
for putting out FOH.
PLUR Mike J.
Freelancer for life!
Jam Productions, Edge Audio Services, Frost Lighting, The Aragon
Ballroom, The Vic, The Park West, The Riviera and the vast suburban
wasteland of cover bands.