Allerod, Denmark (November 26, 2013)—DPA Microphones were used at the fourth Web Summit at the RDS in Dublin. Nearly 10,000 delegates from over 90 countries attended the two-day tech convention, which was officially opened when Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny rang the NASDAQ bell, while sporting a DPA mic.
by Kelleigh Welch It's the guitar that shook the folk music world—Bob Dylan's famous Fender Stratocaster, which he used at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he famously 'went electric'—and now it's up for auction. Festival producer George Wein tells Music Festival Business' Kelleigh Welch, "The thing was, our sound system was not set up for that type of music."
"Dave's vocal style is really based in his throat; gain before feedback is the name of the game. My mix is really based around the vocal mic; I'm limited to how much gain I can get out of him, and the mix has to be built around that. It's very tricky to introduce the kind of energy the people expect at a metal show and still get a vocal on top of the mix. There's a lot of featuring or cues happening during the show where a part is going to get really loud and it's going to come down when he's singing a verse. It's a very busy mix." —Bradley Johnson, FOH Engineer, Megadeth. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News; want to read more? Click here to subscribe to our free online edition!