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The Hot Shop at Tacoma’s Museum of Glass is a cacaphonous, fast-paced environment. A single Community ENTASYS system has replaced four conventional speakers to meet the museum’s audio needs.

He’s been performing longer than many of his fans have been alive, but Paul Weller’s concerts are hardly a parade of oldies. The legendary Modfather continues to bend and blend musical genres, and with a fan base that spans more than thirty years of hits, Weller’s recent arena tours have been sold out across four continents.

London-based Canegreen have been looking after Weller for much of his career, and provided a powerful backline for the shows, including a massive Meyer Sound line array and a Digidesign D-Show VENUE live sound mixing environment. FOH engineer Ange Jones has been mixing the tour on a 32-fader D-Show Main and Sidecar system with Stage and FOH racks.

For a sound company, there are few scenarios more challenging than the ambient noise of an aircraft or two. That probably makes the guys from Continental Air Show Productions either masochists or experts (they’d probably say a little of both). The company spends their days pumping it up loud enough to be heard over the roar of several dozen of the loudest military jets on the planet. To get louder than this stuff, you’ve got to be good, and these guys have proven their stuff over forty years in the industry.

The Power Behind the Pickups Connects with Industry’s Fastest Growing Sales Consultants

Guitar and pickup manufacturers Lace Music have signed on with Rick McClendon’s Pro Sales Management, adding another music industry legend to the high-powered sales consulting firm’s growing client roster.

Pro Sales Management will provide Lace Music, the influential manufacturer behind the industry’s most acclaimed guitars and pickups, with sales management consultation, helping to oversee the company’s network of representatives and distribution channels and increase Lace Music’s dominance in the marketplace.

Nearly two decades have passed since a handful of congregants gathered in a rented school cafeteria for Kensington Church’s first service. Today, Kensington’s five campuses bustle with activity, from youth programs and community groups to multiple services throughout the week.

The main Kensington campus in Troy, Michigan recently upgraded their sanctuary with a new Digidesign VENUE system. As veteran engineer Tim Corder explains, the VENUE is the first phase of an upgrade plan that will eventually include a new P.A. system as well. Nonetheless, Corder says, the new VENUE console has already delivered far more than expected.

Legendary Manufacturer Signs On With High-Powered Sales Consultants

Marvin Caesar, Aphex (L) with PSM's Rick McClendon

Industry veteran Rick McClendon’s Pro Sales Management group continues its unprecedented growth, today announcing the addition of renowned signal processing manufacturer Aphex Systems to its client roster.

Effective immediately, Pro Sales Management will oversee Aphex’s considerable network of factory representatives and distributors, helping to grow the company’s sales reach and market share. As Aphex founder and President Marvin Caesar observes, Pro Sales Management’s range of services is ideally suited to a company like his.

New Firm Brings Large-Scale Know-How to Mid-Scale Companies and Manufacturers

Rick McClendon, Pro Sales Management

Companies in the MI and pro audio sector have responded to the economic slowdown by slashing budgets and downsizing, with recent industry trade shows looking increasingly like job fairs. But one industry veteran has come up with an innovative approach to turn the current downturn into a growth opportunity for businesses both large and small across the MI and pro audio spectrum.

New Jersey’s Columbus Baptist Church celebrates moving up without moving too far.

For the elders, staff and congregants of Columbus Baptist Church in the Columbus, N.J., suburb of Mansfield Township, their new sanctuary is most certainly something of a divine miracle. The mixed contemporary church, whose mission of “being a lighthouse for our region” underscores
their deep involvement in the local community, had long ago outgrown their original 18th century, 100-seat sanctuary.

Say you’re an Old School jazz funkster workaholic with a couple of Grammys and a dozen more nominations, 500-plus studio sessions (and counting), and matching arm-long lists of movie and TV credits under your belt. Between scoring sessions, L.A. Express tours, and twenty-six solo albums, you’ve squeezed in a few hundred performances and the odd arrangement for good pals like Quincy and Frank, Monk and Ravi, Barbra, Joni, Aretha, George and Sir Paul. So……what do you do in your spare time?

In the world of ambient music, Steve Roach stands out as one of the genre’s early innovators, and one of its most prolific. Since his recording debut with NOW in 1982, the internationally renowned artist has released more than 75 albums, producing or appearing on dozens more. His musical explorations, described by some as “techno-tribal music for the global village,” have taken him from Australia’s Outback to the Gothic cathedrals of Europe, from volcanic caves in the Canary Islands to the sun baked expanse of the Arizona desert.