Tiësto, Hardwell, The Chainsmokers, Bassnectar, Porter Robinson and Steve Aoki were just a few of the acts that played this year's Electric Zoo Festival on Randall's Island Park in New York City over Labor Day weekend. To ensure that all 83,000 attendees heard every note, Milwaukee-based Clearwing Productions provided lighting and an L-Acoustics PA for the entire event.
When it comes to Broadway, the only word on anyone's lips for the last year has been Hamilton. Having generated arguably the biggest buzz over a musical since The Producers, the show has become a modern phenomenon, but while the music and lyrics have captivated fans around the world, they don't mean a thing if you can't hear them. Which is why Glenn Kiser, director of the Dolby Institute (pictured), recently interviewed the man who ensures that happens every night—Hamilton's sound designer, Nevin Steinberg—for The Dolby Institute and SoundWorks Collection's Conversations with Sound Artists podcast, which you can hear right now in this PSN Peek.
"I have some scenes that recall some delay times, but otherwise, the board is pretty live—just a vocal delay and a tiny bit of parallel compression on the kit; that's it. All the dynamics come off the stage. When I first started, I was squashing stuff a bit; Robert [Smith] listened afterwards and said, 'We're playing hard here and it's not opening up.' So it went—no gates." —Paul Corkett, FOH engineer, The Cure
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