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PARIS – FOH engineer Olivier Lude brought his PRO6 live audio system along for the Mister Mystere tour for French rock singer Matthieu Chedid, aka M. The tour is travelling throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland and will end in June at the Zenith concert hall, Paris.
On monitors, Julien Decarne is using an XL8 live performance system supplied by rental company Dispatch together with a Klark Teknik DN9696 high resolution audio recorder and DN9331 Rapide graphic EQ controller.

New mid-sized box is flying out of the US factory, with 200 units sold within weeks, writes Dave Robinson.

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Alex Maiolo has worked with The Future of Music Coalition for almost nine years, primarily focusing on the health insurance crisis as it relates to the working musician. In addition, Alex plays in various bands, including the psych-pop outfit Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies and ambient/clo-core staple Hi Fi Sky. He is a partner with an insurance agency in the Carrboro/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. Insurance as it relates to the artist, studio owner and musician is all part of a typical day’s tasks.

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PARIS – FOH engineer Olivier Lude brought his PRO6 live audio system along for the Mister Mystere tour for French rock singer Matthieu Chedid, aka M. The tour is travelling throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland and will end in June at the Zenith concert hall, Paris.
On monitors, Julien Decarne is using an XL8 live performance system supplied by rental company Dispatch together with a Klark Teknik DN9696 high resolution audio recorder and DN9331 Rapide graphic EQ controller.

US: Harman International has confirmed exclusively to PSNE/PSN-e that it will end manufacturing of all JBL product on US soil later in the year, writes Dave Robinson. The announcement follows a period in which rumours circulated on a number of US web forums.

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The tradecraft of recording vocals – techniques and approaches for “the most important thing”. Part 3, presented here, focuses on the singer and mic positioning along with monitor mixing.

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