Montreal Jazz Fest Jumps With Yamaha; NJ Raises Ruckus Over NYC Pier 97 Shows

Today's Top Story - 07.29.14 Montreal Jazz Fest Jumps With Yamaha The annual Montreal Jazz Festival served up the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Terence Blanchard and Nikki Yanofsky, among others. Solotech provided the majority of the audio production for the 30 stages and stacked them with Yamaha digital audio consoles. Read More » Today's News Sennheiser, Full Compass Sponsor Event » JoeCo Opens New Offices » Kaltman Bows Aaronia PowerLOG Antennas » WSDG Consults on Metroplex » Today's Featured Blog NJ Raises Ruckus Over NYC Pier 97 Shows by Kelleigh Welch Across the Hudson River, New Jersey residents are getting a free spot to catch some of the summer's hottest concerts taking place on Manhattan's Pier 97—a situation that for many residents is becoming an issue. 2014 marks the inaugural year for the Pier 97 venue, located at 57th Street on the west side of Manhattan. This amphitheater was designed to project noise away from Manhattan, after residents near the former concert venue at Pier 26 complained of noise issues. However, while the new venue solves the noise complaints in Manhattan, it is projecting the sound over to New Jersey, disturbing residents up until at least 10 p.m. on performance nights. Read More » Quote of the Week "I would say that about 30 percent of the record is the 'demo' material that we kept. For example, the main guitar solo on "Mirage Year" is what I recorded using a DI into Logic at home. When we got into the studio, we just re-amped the signal through a ton of pedals and through two huge old HiWatt amplifiers. That solo means so much to me because it was the first take in my bedroom—fingers bleeding, just digging into the guitar. I think I am going to make records like that from now on. It saves so much time, and it is like deconstructing a demo and building it back up."—Tim Showalter of Strand of Oaks in MUSIC, ETC. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!

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