By Clive Young As Super Bowl XLIX illustrated all too well, sometimes it pays to do things the simple way (like, say, hand off the ball to running back Marshawn Lynch when you're on the 1-yard line). Further underlining the power of simplicity at the gameand in a far more positive waywas pop-rock stalwart Lenny Kravitz.
by Frank Wells The following is an extended version of this article, which first appeared in the February, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News.
The mid-1990s saw a migration of a significant number of music production professionals from Los Angeles to Nashville, a migration hastened by a literal shake upthe 1994 Northridge earthquake. Tom Davis, a post production audio specialist with stints at Post Logic Studios (a TEC Award-winning, six-room, 12,000 sq. ft. Hollywood post house that Davis designed and built) and 525 Post Production (where Davis oversaw the development of the formerly picture-only facility into an audio powerhouse and took home numerous awards over his tenure as Director Of Audio) joined that migration, bringing his ample experience into a town where post production audio was a minor part of the overall production scene.
"With fuel prices being as low as they are, I think it makes it more presentable for [tours] to carry production without worrying that they have to go to another truck now."Paul Owen, vice president, Thunder Audio.