Sia is finishing her "Nostalgic for the Present" U.S. tour this weeka 23-date journey that found the Australian pop singer crossing the country with a pair of DiGiCo consoles: an SD5 loaded with DiGiCo's new Stealth Core 2 at front of house, and an SD10 for monitors, all provided by Sound Image of Escondido, CA.
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 permanentlybut 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.
"I have some scenes that recall some delay times, but otherwise, the board is pretty livejust 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 wentno gates." Paul Corkett, FOH engineer, The Cure
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