Meyer Sound Fares The Grateful Dead Well; Review—iZ RADAR Recording/DAW System

Today's Top Story - 07.07.15 Meyer Sound Fares The Grateful Dead Well New York, NY (July 7, 2015)—This past weekend saw the Grateful Dead close out its career at the 50-year mark with the last three of its final “Fare Thee Well” shows in Chicago. The short mini tour kicked off, however, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, using a Meyer Sound Leo PA to create a quadraphonic surround setup for the 60,000 fans in attendance each night, and a nearly identical Leo system was used for the Chicago shows as well. Read More » Today's News Review: iZ RADAR studio Recording System/Multiplatform DAW » Microsoft Expands RedNet Use » Studer Vista X Joins Frankfurt Opera » Review: Sennheiser MK 8 Multipattern LDC Mic » Today's Featured Blog Plundering The Grateful Dead by Clive Young Deadheads have always loved "Dark Star," one of the Grateful Dead's most out-there live jams. In the mid-90s, Canadian avant garde composer John Oswald mixed and layered together 100 live recordings of the band playing it, condensing 40 hours into a wild, 107-minute result known as Grayfolded. Last year, it was released on vinyl for the first time as a three-LP set, but here's our original coverage on Grayfolded's creation, from the December, 1995 issue of Pro Sound News. Read More » Quote of the Week "We have a different philosophy of how we treat bands. Most shows have one monitor console and they mix from wherever that is. We tried to make this show as artist-friendly as possible, so the guest band monitor console is where it should normally be—next to the band. We also have a monitor console underneath the stage that is for The Roots, so Dan Horton, the monitor engineer, spends most of the show down there, and changes positions to the musical guest console as needed—which is unheard of with most shows."—Keith McPhee, Tonight Show music supervisor/Roots production manager. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!

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