Mexico marked its 205th Independence Day on September 15, and nowhere was the celebration bigger than Zócalo public square in Mexico City, where five sound reinforcement companies put their systems together to create an outdoors, in-the-round concert stage system with hundreds of Nexo cabinets that covered 40,000 people.
by Clive Young From The Beatles' Abbey Road to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to his own hit albums, legendary producer/engineer/musician Alan Parsons has made his mark on music history. In recent times, however, when he hasn't been mixing at one desk, he's been typing at another, co-writing The Art and Science of Sound Recording, an in-depth book on the entire music production process. Parsons and his co-author, Julian Colbeck, sat down with PSN at the 137th AES Convention for a spirited chat on mentoring, EQ'ing overheads and why George Harrison took too long to record guitar solos.
"What I try and do is enhance the hooks and push those things up. People buy tickets, have a good time and that's it; it's gone. They're not going to listen to it again."Nigel Green, FOH engineer, Shania Twain