P&E Wing To Honor Neil Young; Jessie J Performs with DiGiCo SD7

Today's Top Story - 01.07.14 Jessie J Performs with DiGiCo SD7 » New York, NY (January 7, 2014)—Wrapping up a 20-date tour through the UK and Ireland, pop singer Jessie J relied on the efforts of her monitor engineer, Andy 'Baggy' Robinson and his DiGiCo SD5 console. Read More » Today's News P&E Wing To Honor Neil Young » A&H Assists Texas Church » Blue Announces MoFi Headphones » Editors Keys Bows Logic Keyboard » Today's Featured Blog Building A Beer Bottle Edison Cylinder by Clive Young It used to be that music was heard on vinyl, tape or CDs, but in the download era, it doesn't have any physical form. Perhaps that's why many artists have started exploring alternative physical mediums for music—and why, at the PSN blog, we just can't get enough of them. We've covered playable records made out of chocolate, ice and wood, as well as folks who record on 1930s Presto direct-to-disk recorders, and even quiet Suzanne Vega belting into an Edison wax cylinder recorder for an AES presentation. Lest you think these brave souls have taken alternative formats to the max, have no fear—there's plenty of quixotic strangeness still out there. The latest weird recording feat finds great minds in New Zealand turning a beer bottle into an Edison cylinder. If you like booze, music and pointless exercises in engineering brilliance, you'll love this in-depth video. Read More » Quote of the Week "Detroit was good. If you have a rack with all the drive processors for the sound system, maybe don't put them on a UPS because statistically, it's more likely to fail than the power company—and it did. We had 15-20 seconds left of the show and then all of a sudden, all the processors were offline and the PA was muted. And that's when Nate [Ruess, lead singer] decided to give the aerial test to a gold-plated Shure 58 wireless. Got thrown up about 25 feet and landed right down on its side; passed with flying colors though." —Gordon Reddy, FOH engineer for the band Fun. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News; want to read more? Click here to subscribe to our free online edition!

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