Since winning a pair of Equator Audio D8 studio reference monitors last fall, singer, songwriter and guitarist Jess Klein has since used them to mix and master her new CD, titled Learning Faith.
by Clive Young Some time ago, The Thread, the blog of Duke University's Duke Performances department, interviewed Ken Jacob, chief engineer and director of the Bose Live Music Technology Group, on a variety of topics regarding live sound. In a conversation that ranges from over-amplified concerts across a broad spectrum of genres to the trade-offs of speaker size versus audio quality, here's some of Jacob's thoughts on the classic notion of the "invisible" FOH engineer.
"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!