Everyone wants modern sound quality when they go on tour, but that kind of gear usually requires both space and a lot of hands to lift it. Earlier this year, when production manager/FOH engineer Eugene "Geno" Mulcahy played U.S. Navy vessels and military installations in the Middle East and Europe with The Frontmen of Country Music, he had to go a bit smaller and lighter. The result? He carried a selection of mics and a QSC TouchMix compact digital mixer in his backpack.
by Clive Young Converse sneakers were invented in 1908 and have been beloved by musicians ever since. Now, more than a century later, the company still can't figure out how to make wide-sized sneakers but somehow it learned how to put a guitar pedal in your sole, as evidenced by its latest brainwave: The Chuck Taylor All Wah. Yes—sneakers with a built-in wah-wah pedal.
"Watching Beth [Cosentino] do vocals is pretty incredible, because she is a really great singer and it takes her very few takes to get a main vocal and the harmonies. Those vocal parts aren't in the demos, they are just kind of in her mind. She will just say 'give me another track,' and just start layering all these vocal parts. While she is recording them, we are all getting to hear them for the first time." - Bobb Bruno of Best Coast
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