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What’s hot<br />
What’s hot<br />
Top 10 Tours of 2010<br />
Feature<br />
Metallica came in at #8.<br />
16<br />
A gear and crew roundup of the biggest shows of last year.<br />
Production Profile<br />
20<br />
Vince Gill and Amy Grant decked the halls at their annual<br />
Christmas run at the Ryman. And Hugh Johnson was still<br />
behind the console and under the mistletoe.<br />
24 Installations<br />
Features<br />
At the new White Oak Worship Center, the audio<br />
system was more than an afterthought.<br />
25 <strong>FOH</strong> Interview: Tom Abraham<br />
We take a short stogie break with the <strong>FOH</strong>/PM for<br />
Alice In Chains.<br />
26 Road Tests<br />
Audix told us this budget set of drum mics gave 90<br />
percent of the performance of their top-of-the-line<br />
models at half the price. We check that ratio... And a<br />
look at SMAART v7.1.<br />
29 Regional Slants<br />
First time we ran into the Atlanta Sound & Lighting<br />
crew was on a ship sailing out of Miami. A dry-dock<br />
look at a hot company out of Hotlanta.<br />
Letters<br />
No accounting For<br />
Bad taste<br />
Being that it is the season to be jolly, I am a<br />
little behind in my reading. In other words, I just<br />
read “No Accounting For Bad Taste” (<strong>FOH</strong>-at-Large,<br />
Nov. 2010). After damn near soiling myself a second<br />
time and nearly passing out from a lack of oxygen<br />
from laughing so hard, I had to smile. I too see the<br />
absurdity of the world. I truly believe that in our haste<br />
to over-correct for problems, we failed to recognize<br />
30 The Biz<br />
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JANUARY<br />
2011<br />
Vol. 9.4<br />
Columns<br />
Live sound gear might be acquiring value as<br />
memorabilia.<br />
32 Theory and Practice<br />
Why speakers blow up.<br />
33 Sound Sanctuary<br />
Vowing to do it better in 2011.<br />
36 <strong>FOH</strong> At Large<br />
Baker documents the trials of We Who Take Audio<br />
Where It Does Not Belong.<br />
Departments<br />
4 Editor’s Note<br />
6 News<br />
12 International News<br />
14 On the Move<br />
14 New Gear<br />
28 Welcome to My Nightmare<br />
we have almost “politically corrected” ourselves into<br />
oblivion. I like your idea of “Equal Rights.” It’s a shame<br />
though, even this may not be enough to save us from<br />
ourselves. In the end, we will reach some type of<br />
compromise that will neither solve or make worse the<br />
problem, the American way.<br />
—Tom Stark
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