While touring with American indie rock band Broken Bells, FOH engineer Dave McDonald is using an Allen & heath modular iLive system—specifically an iLive-112 Surface with iDR10 Mixrack, with the addition of a Dante network card delivering up to 64 channels to a recording rig.
By Rob Tavaglione Attention recording engineers: are you looking to inspire guitarists and capture noteworthy tones? A nice guitar preamp and digital amp simulations can quickly get you there quickly and easily, but don't ignore the special possibilities of getting your hands dirty: creative tube implementation can make productions unique in a way that ones and zeroes simply can't.
"I think a part of us always loved the demos we made. We would make these great demos and sometimes when the album was done, there were moments where we thought they had so much more magic to them. It drove our producer, Phil Ek, crazy. I guess they call it 'Demoitis'— or at least that's what I call it." - Walter Martin, ex-The Walkmen. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!