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Today's Top Story - 03.26.15 SSL Live Lands At French Music Awards Les Victoires de la Musique, France's answer to the Grammy and Brit Awards, is broadcast live from the 5,000 seat Le Zénith arena in Paris. This year's four-hour show featured performances by David Guetta, Brigitte, Jean Louis Aubert and Christine and the Queens, among others, all supported by a full orchestra. Helping make that happen, four SSL Live. L500 consoles were used at the FOH and monitor positions. Read More » Today's News WSDG Builds Owl City's Nest » Music Group Scores Neve Double » Axia Signs New Partners » iZotope Bows RX Loudness Control » Today's Featured Blog VIDEO: The Ramones' Smartphones-at-Shows Solution by Clive Young Back in the early days of punk rock, FOH engineers had to make sure the console didn't get hit by The Three Bs: Beers, Bodies and Blood. Today, that doesn't happen as much—is it because punk audiences are better behaved now? Heck no! It's 'cause the crowd is too busy holding iPhones in the air, blocking everyone's view—including the FOH engineer's. If you can't see the stage from the mix position thanks to the forest of outstretched arms, here's one of the original punkers—Marky Ramone himself—with a very DIY solution. Read More » Quote of the Week "God knows what kinds of records and productions I am going to do over the course of my career, however long that lasts, but I have a very big respect for space. When I listen to Booker T. & the M.G.s for instance, the most impressive thing to me is the space. I mean, you could drive a goddam Mack truck through those tracks. [When artists feel the need] to control every second and have their fingers on every string to feel good about a song, it can make it sound so forced. You can hear all this in the recordings though, and you know when it is not relaxed. The point of doing the record in the first place is to make the song stand out. I think even with the larger productions we've done in the past, we've managed to pull this off." —Justin Townes Earle From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!

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