Tour Profiles: Mix goes behind the scenes on today's top tours.
Now Playing: Summer Festival Update
Aug 1, 2004
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Sound Companies: Rat Sound Systems (Oxnard, Calif.), U.S. Audio and Lighting (North Hollywood) Main Stage FOH Engineer/Consoles:...
Madonna's Re-Invention Tour
Aug 1, 2004,
By Gaby Alter
Madonna has re-invented her image numerous times during the course of one of pop's longest and most successful careers, including recently changing her...
All Access: Velvet Revolver
Aug 1, 2004,
By Steve Jennings
Front-of-house engineer Orris Henry is using a Midas XL4 on this tour because of its preamps and nice, warm sound, as well as the board's logical layout....
Franz Ferdinand
Aug 1, 2004,
By Steve Jennings
Glasgow, Scotland-based Franz Ferdinand's show reminds one of a little bit of '60s pop infused with '80s new wave, but with a slightly modern feel. Mix...
On the Road
Aug 1, 2004
Jerry Lloyd Roots bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs (right) has spent recent years collecting critical accolades and turning out stellar works such as Live...
On the Road
Jul 1, 2004
Train During their last tour, Train listened to each evening's soundcheck on CD, which brought ideas for their current album, My Private Nation. While...
Now Playing
Jul 1, 2004
P.O.D. Sound Company: Showco/Clair Bros. FOH Engineer/Console: Chad Olech (also production manager)/Midas H3000 Monitor Engineer/Console: Barry Kimmel/Midas...
Tour Profile: Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban
Jul 1, 2004,
By Strother Bullins
Kenny Chesney's current tour isn't your father's country music show it isn't even your older brother's. It's a whole lot of Abercrombie & Fitch outfitted...
Tour Profile: Dido
Jul 1, 2004,
By Heather Johnson
Don't cross me, Dido teases, introducing her song See You When You're 40 during one of two nights at Berkeley, Calif.'s Community Theatre. Despite her...
Tour Profile: Harry Connick Jr.
Jul 1, 2004,
By Paul Verna
Jazz isn't the first genre that comes to mind when one thinks of beautiful and intense light shows, Plexiglas stage risers, music stands that dynamically...
Maroon 5
Jul 1, 2004,
By Steve Jennings
Having just toured Europe and Australia, Maroon 5 are out on the U.S. college circuit. This summer, they will be out with John Mayer on a co-headlining...
Verizon Ladies First
Jun 1, 2004,
By Strother Bullins
Shortly after the doors open at 6 p.m., a smiling mother and her two enthusiastic children hurry to find their reserved floor seats at North Carolina's...
The Vines/Jet/The Living End
Jun 1, 2004,
Photos and text by Steve Jennings
According to Vines' front-of-house engineer Matthew Kettle (left), on this leg of the tour, he is just carrying his own processing, favorite things like...
Loud and Louder in London
Jun 1, 2004,
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN
How to Build an Audience for New and Newer Music...
Buddy Guy
Jun 1, 2004,
By Gaby Alter
I can't do the things I used to do. After listing a few old-age related miseries I can't walk like I used to walk, I can't love like I used to love Guy...
The Von Bondies
Jun 1, 2004
Fusing raw garage and true punk with a smattering of soul, the Von Bondies are currently hitting small- and large-capacity clubs as they make their way...
Now Playing
Jun 1, 2004
Joan Baez Sound Company: racks and stacks rented locallyFOH Engineer/Console: George Cowan/YamahaDM2000 with two 8-channel optical I/O paths (ADAT Lightpipe)...
Rod Stewart
May 1, 2004,
By Steve Jennings
Rod Stewart's new tour has the rock star-turned-crooner singing his favorite hits from It Had to Be You and As Time Goes By. Front-of-house engineer Lars Brogaard took a few minutes to talk about the show....
On the Road: Jereb Carter
May 1, 2004
Currently hitting the small-club circuit with New Orleans funksters Galactic during the band's Freestyle 2004 tour, front-of-house engineer Jereb Carter (who has also manned the FOH board for Garage a Trois) shares some insight into creating perfect sound in close quarters....
Tour Profile: Black Eyed Peas + N.E.R.D.
May 1, 2004,
by David John Farinella
As if it wasn't difficult enough to mix the Black Eyed Peas — a quartet of rapper/vocalists and a four-piece band who are living up to the reputation that a Grammy-nominated song (“Where Is the Love”) demands — front-of-house engineer David Haines gets to his console and reports, “I just heard Robin Williams is here. That makes me want to mix the show even better....
