Nineties electro-rockers The Prodigy are still going strong overseas, and recently played a show inside Berlin's 12,000-capacity Velodrom, an indoor bike-racing track. Helping keep the sound up-to-speed was sound provider Complete Audio Berlin, which fielded its Martin Audio MLA system. Mixing at front of house was the band's longtime sound engineer, Jon Burton.
by Rob Tavaglione As it happens from time to time, I get requests for advice from fellow engineers. Sure, there's questions about compressors or methodologies, but the most common is the good ol' "what mic should I buy?" question. This recent inquiry from Terry Moore of Abstract Studios in Houstonasking about affordable mic purchases for singer/songwritersseemed like it might be informative for a lot of our readers. Terry was agreeable with sharing, so here you go
"Fall On Your Sword in its very earliest incarnation started out as a video art project. It actually began with YouTube, making these crazy video mashups. As a result of the YouTube successes I started performing these videos live. The whole time I was doing that I was working at a much larger company, scoring commercials and smaller independent films. I left there, brought in Lucy [Alper, executive producer and Bates' business partner], and started Fall On Your Sword as a company, springing out of the band and video art project."Will Bates of Fall On Your Sword.