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The Zurich Opera House entered the 2017/18 opera and theater season following an extensive technical renewal that included new audio equipment, audio consoles for modernization of its workflows, and fresh approaches to its sound reinforcement. The Lawo mc²66 mixing console that was previously installed in the sound control room has been replaced with an mc²56, with a second an mc²56 also installed in the auditorium – making the sound control desk and auditorium desk mirrored consoles. Operated in mirror mode, the configurations, snapshots and adjustments of parameters that are performed on one console can also be recalled at the other. This ensures efficient preparation of performances, particularly where Microport systems are increasingly being used. Managed in this way, musical and children's opera projects planned for the future will be easier to mix in the hall. The new Lawo mixing consoles offer 48 faders in the control room – a 32-fader console with a 16-fader extender tha...

Say Hi To Margie Singleton (AGAIN)! Margaret Louis Ebey  (born October 5, 1935), known professionally as  Margie Singleton , is an American country music singer and songwriter. In the 1960s, she was a popular duet and solo recording artist, working with country stars George Jones and Faron Young. Singleton had her biggest hit with Young called “Keeping Up With The Joneses” in 1964. She managed a successful solo career in the 1960s, recording 9 Top 40 Billboard Country singles, including a Top 5 hit. In addition to being a solo and duet star, she also sang as a back-up vocalist with  The Jordanaires . Numerous performers recorded many of her songs, including  Teresa Brewer ,  Tammy Wynette  and  Charley Pride . In 1964, Singleton teamed up with singer  Faron Young . Together they recorded the song “Keeping Up With The Joneses”. That year, the song reached the country top 5, and became Singleton’s biggest hit. Now, at the age of 82, M...

Rastatt, November 13, 2017 Lawo Launches Online Academy for mc 2  Console Trainings Lawo, German manufacturer of pioneering audio, video and control solutions, supplements its Lawo Academy training programs with a new online product training opportunity. The new Lawo Online Academy provides in its first course a free mc² Audio Console Tutorial. “In this video-based tutorial, new users can learn how to operate a Lawo mc²56 console. And as the workflows of all Lawo mc² consoles are very similar, this course will also help operators to work with any mc²36, mc²66 or mc²96 console”, says Christian Struck, Senior Product Manager Audio Production at Lawo. The course is structured into six chapters, the complete course takes about 3-4 hours. Participants can interrupt their lessons at any time and continue at a later stage. To enhance the learning experience, every chapter is followed by a short test. At the end of the mc² Audio Console Tutorial, participants can pass an exam ...

What’s In A Name? KEVNPHE (Pronounced “Kev” and “Fee”) Back Stage Indie Reports speaks with Virginia Hip-Hop Artists KEVNPHE! Who is KEVNPHE?:  Virginia hip-hop duo  provide a very conscious style approach to hip-hop, producing songs filled with real-life lyrics based on events that occurred in the lives of the two artists at the time. KEVNPHE’s message is to simply change lives one song at a time. What is your story?:  From witnessing domestic violence at an early age, to almost failing out of college, to dealing the death of an older brother at what was the highest point of a basketball career, to dealing with the death of an unborn child, to becoming an elementary school teachers.  Sons, Brothers, mentors, teachers, writers, artists! KEVNPHE aims to change a life one song at a time, and save their own by doing the one things that keeps them going.. Making music! Where are your from?:  Virginia Beach, VA How has your location influenced your m...

THE GUITAR DOCTOR – MIAMI VINTAGE GUITARS – MEET EDDIE & FRANK Good Ideas? As usual, I had found myself neck-deep in another fun project.  Three months have passed I’m asking myself why did I think this would be a good idea or for that matter “fun”?  Whenever I get excited about something I always think “I can do that!” eventually coming upon the cold reality that there is a reason everyone does not do technical things themselves on a whim.  None-the-less, I ventured into making my own bass guitar.  Not like the selecting and shaping wood version of “making” but the order all the parts I like on eBay, paint them up and slap-um together kind of “making”.  What could go wrong?  I bought a raw wood Fender(ish) Jazz Bass body and decided I would seal it, do some funky abstract art on it with acrylic paint and then put a thick luscious lacquer acrylic finish on it so shiny I could use it as a mirror over the studio bathroom sink (if I so chose to pu...

Back Stage Indie Report is proud to announce that 4X Latin Grammy winning Producer and Recording Engineer, “Echo” has singed on to be a Recording Arts & Technologies contributor for the online magazine.  With over 22 years in the music industry, Echo has established himself as one of the “Greats” currently in the industry.  Echo was one of the founding pioneers of the reggaeton movement. Echo (producer) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer Paul Irizarry “ECHO” has successfully worked for the last 15 years with major urban and pop artists in Latin, mainstream, and European markets. Producing, recording and/or mixing songs and albums for the likes of such artists as:  Ricky Martin , Pitbull, London Symphony Orchestra,  Tego Calderon , Nicole Scherzinger (Pussycat Dolls), Alek Syntek, Paulina Rubio,  Tempo ,  Daddy Yankee ,  Don Omar ,  Vico C ,  Divino ,  Ivy Queen ,  Thalia ,...

SWAN AUDIO OFFERS YOU A FREE WAY TO SEND AUDIO FILES TO CLIENTS THAT THEY CAN ONLY HAVE FOR 7 DAYS! Mike Wells and Stefan Heger are both mastering engineers.  They were looking for a platform to send audio files to their client and perspective clients without giving away the ownership of the file.  When that proved difficult to find, they did what any studio engineer would do…. They built one!  “Swan”, an online platform for your mobile device and desktop computer that let you send an audio file but prohibit the recipient from downloading or taking ownership of th e file.  In fact, the file will disappear completely from the recipients device after 7 days.  It is “FREE” and is available now.  Swan comes with 2 Gigs of storage for 7 days. Back Stage Indie Report met the guys from Stephan and the guys from Swan at AES in New Your City last week.  They were kind enough to give us a demo.  Music people listen to me!!!  Get this free...

NAVY VETERAN, BLUES-POP ARTIST PHILLIP BROUSSARD SIGNS WITH MTS MANAGEMENT GROUP FRIENDS OF BACK STAGE INDIE REPORT, MTS MANAGEMENT GROUP TURNED US ON TO A VERY SPECIAL ARTIST, PHILLIP BROUSSARD. Back Stage Indie Report knows that if top management guru Michael Stover of MTS Management Group sends us one of his artists, we should listen! *see… THE TIP OF THE SPEAR IN INDIE MUSIC PROMOTION – MEET THE REAL INDIE INSIDERS! FORMER WSM RADIO NASHVILLE ON-AIR PERSONALITY, SAM ROCHFORD HAS SIGNED WITH MTS MANAGEMENT GROUP. HER SINGLE, “SO EASY” IS INDIEWORLD COUNTRY RECORD REPORT TOP 40! OUT WEST WITH RICHARD LYNCH Phillip Broussard Born and raised in Washington State, Phillip Broussard discovered his passion early in life, when his father brought home a guitar. His father’s original intention was to play the guitar himself, but he soon found Phillip picking up the guitar, when he didn’t think anyone was watching. Phillip grew up under the influence of his fat...