Adele has been making the rounds this year on her first arena tour, with audio production by Germany-based Black Box. Key to that, of course, is the audio engineering team—Front of House engineer Dave Bracey and monitor man Joe Campbell—who are both manning DiGiCo SD7 mixing consoles.
By Craig Anderton With a few exceptions, most recent DAW changes have been incremental: We haven't seen huge breakthroughs like when Opcode's Vision merged hard disk audio with MIDI to create StudioVision, Steinberg introduced Virtual Studio Technology, Sonic Foundry invented a new file format for dance music styles, Ableton saw recording as a two-dimensional matrix instead of linear tape, or PreSonus integrated sophisticated album assembly functionality. But in an increasingly video-centric world where YouTube "stars" garner millions and millions of views, one area of DAWs remains relatively unexplored: video.
"[The AES Convention is] where the industry leaders, the top companies, the academics, the next wave of students, the history buffs, the researchers and the end users all connect. AES 141 is where we'll all find out where the future of audio technology will take us. It's where information flows, questions are answered, commerce abounds and career connections are made at every level. " —John Krivit, AES president.
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