Best known as the drummer in Radiohead, Philip Selway hit the stage during weekend 2 of the annual Coachella festival to perform solo material. Belting vocals and playing keyboards, Selway performed for nearly an hour, the show but one on his current solo tour. The Coachella gig, much as the rest of the tour, was mixed by audio engineer Gavin McComb on an Allen & Heath's iLive-T112 console. McComb controls the FOH mix, while the band controls its own monitor mixes using the ME system.
by Clive Young In honor of Unofficial Star Wars Day ("May the Fourth Be With You" - Heh, heh), we take a look back to 2010, when we interviewed J.W. Rinzler, author of The Sounds of Star Wars, about the project and his work with audio guru Ben Burtt as they documented the development of sounds known the world over, from the bleeps of R2-D2 to the ominous breathing of Darth Vader, all the while focusing on the technology and ingenuity behind them.
"If you plug your ears, the thing you should hear first are vocal, kick and snare, so I always try to leave as much room as possible for that vocal to sit on top and still have a kick and snare that sounds like it's like knocking you down." —Jared Blumenburg, FOH Engineer, Florida Georgia Line.