Canadian teen popstar Shawn Mendes recently crossed North America with audio support from Highland Heights, OH-based Eighth Day Sound, which fielded an Adamson E-Series line array system for the production.
Rapper 2 Chainz recently purchased a new home in the Hollywood Hills, complete with a 1,400-foot studio. Legendary guitarist Steve Vai owned the four-story, three-bedroom, 4.5 bath home for 28 years before selling it in 2015 for $1.5 million. Following a complete, year-long renovation of the house—but apparently not the studio, which takes up the entire second floor—it was put back on the market at $2.5 million; two days later, the platinum-selling rapper picked it up for a cool $2.45 million.
"I don't use plug-ins, I don't use snapshots or anything like that; every single night, I mix by memory—and it's because if I don't do that, I'm not able to respond to what Andra and her band are doing on stage. I believe I'm doing the audience a disservice if I'm not responding to Andra and the band, because if my job is to bridge the gap between the artist and the audience, I have to be able to emotionally and musically engage with what they're doing at any given time." - Caleb Morris, live engineer for Andra Day
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