Las Vegas, NV (January 2, 2014)—ATK Audiotek provided audio for the 4th Annual American Country Awards (ACAs) last month at Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas. Collaborating with Rat Sound, ATK fielded a new EAW Anya system for the high-profile event.
by Kelleigh Welch In 1942, while training with the Air Force, Harold Burroughs Rhodes created a laptop keyboard from scrap plane materials he found around the airfield. The invention would carry on to become one of the most revolutionary instruments in the music industry, and now that story has been captured in the sumptuous Book and Blu-ray set, Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story.
"Detroit was good. If you have a rack with all the drive processors for the sound system, maybe don't put them on a UPS because statistically, it's more likely to fail than the power company—and it did. We had 15-20 seconds left of the show and then all of a sudden, all the processors were offline and the PA was muted. And that's when Nate [Ruess, lead singer] decided to give the aerial test to a gold-plated Shure 58 wireless. Got thrown up about 25 feet and landed right down on its side; passed with flying colors though." —Gordon Reddy, FOH engineer for the band Fun. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News; want to read more? Click here to subscribe to our free online edition!