When the Stratford Festival recently staged the classic musical A Chorus Line, it marked the first time that the show had been presented anywhere with a thrust stage. With the actors' costumes of leotards and t-shirts providing little in the way of camouflage for miking, the production opted to use Lectrosonics SSM super slight micro transmitters, hidden on the performers.
It's been said the only survivors of a nuclear war would be cockroaches and Cher's career…but then there's the Anderton Awards, "honoring" the best at this year's AES Convention. The class action lawsuit regarding the main course at last year's awards dinner could have shut down the ceremonies permanently—but at the trial, expert witness Buggles the Man-Clown proved that cooking sewer rats at extremely high temperatures can in fact eliminate most pathogens. So there! With the judge throwing out the suit, the Anderton Awards are again poised to recognize products that might not otherwise gain recognition. The prize: a mention on this otherwise prestigious website, and of course, the grand prize is…well actually, there's no grand prize. Nevermind.
"[Modern vinyl mastering] has become very sophisticated in some ways, because it's full frequency response, two channels in one groove. That's doing a lot with a very primitive medium, so it's amazing how good it really is. It's come a long way. " —Bernie Grundman of Bernie Grundman Mastering
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