PAR's Long To Stream Choir Session; Summer NAMM Gets Growth Spurt

Today's Top Story - 07.25.14 PAR's Long To Stream Choir Session MXL Microphones, Marshall Electronics and StreamVu have partnered with The Choir, a Grammy-nominated band based in Nashville, and Engineer/Producer and PAR Senior Contributor Russ Long to stream live while the band records its upcoming live album. For the first time, fans will have a real time, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the creative process as The Choir lays down tracks in front of a live audience. The band will play two hometown shows that will be streamed live from a studio in Nashville to the band's website. Marshall, MXL, and StreamVu are providing the hardware and technical support to stream the shows. Russ Long will record the performances for the CD to be released later this year. Read More » Today's News Summer NAMM Gets Growth Spurt » Mates Sums with SSL Matrix » Chairworks Adds A&H Room » Play-Fi Ecosystem Expands » Today's Featured Blog Under The Hood: Semiconductors In Audio by Frank Wells Semiconductors are essential building blocks of most modern electronics, with the progression from discrete transistors to integrated circuits largely universal, chips dominating usage. To get an overview of the practical implications of trends in the semiconductor market, Pro Sound News periodically queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage. Read More » Quote of the Week "Matt's tough. His mic control is horrible, his physical output is mediocre. He does his thing and he sounds amazing, but he requires a lot of support. On a scale of one to 10, for the amount of lead vocalist attention he needs, he's probably a solid eight. Because he sings in a baritone, he doesn't have a lot of physical output—so because that's the reality of what we live it, it plays a major role in the gain structure of the front of house mix. He will limit the overall potential of the volume every show. I route Matt's vocals through a subgroup, there's a 31-band EQ inserted on it, and the ballad-y songs give me an opportunity to go in and make minor corrections."—Brandon Reid, FOH engineer for The National, on singer Matt Berninger's baritone. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!

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