ISSUE 35 December 2010 CONTENTS
> Regulars: In Session 44 People 46 Products 48 Marketplace 51 Mixdown 57 Behind the Board 58 > IN THIS ISSSUE
NEWS
PINK FLOYD AUCTION • 4 Quadraphonic console up for grabs
FIVE’S AWARDED • 5 Synco partner named company of the year
PRO TOOLS 9 • 6 Avid opens DAW to third parties
RHC ACQUIRES PROCO • 6 No major changes announced
EVENTS
AES SAN FRANCISCO • 12 A full rundown of the 129th show from The Moscone Center
NAMM 2010 PREVIEW • 14 Awards, exhibitors and Hot Zone information for the US’ hottest show
LIVE SOUND/INSTALLATION COVER FEATURE
AMERICAN TOURING • 17 US manufacturers of touring gear
LD SYSTEMS • 32 Rob Hughes takes a trip to Germany to talk to the company about the sucess of LD Premium on the Continent, and the company’s efforts to get a buzz going in the UK
STUDIO/BROADCAST
MARK NEEDHAM • 34 Chris Isaak and The Killers engineer talks mixing hits
SNAP STUDIOS • 38
North London most affordable high-end recording studio
BILL MORRIS • 40 CTVOB’s business director writes from the Blackpool Tower Ballroom
EDITORIAL Y
ou may be reading this over your Christmas dinner, on your way back home from your last gig, or in sunny California at the NAMM show. Whereever you are there most certainly must be a feeling of a new start or some fond reflections on the year past. It has been very busy in the API bunkers
in 2010, but we can’t complain; it has been a good one for us all. Luckily, it seems that the recession that was going to put us all out on the streets fighting over the last piece of meat has not crippled this industry as horribly as it was foretold. We may have some bumps and bruises, but we have lived to tell the story, which is a testament to the resilience of pro audio. To celebrate the end of 2010, we put together a
report of the top 10 most read stories of the year from our website (pages 10 and 11). And while some of them are pretty obvious, others were a bit more of a surprise.
Considering the public outcry surrounding the announcement that EMI was planning on selling Abbey Road to a property developer to pay off part of its £3.3bn debt, it is no surprise that the story got people furiously campaigning to save the iconic studio. So much so that the Government fast tracked its application for Grade II status, thus securing the buildings fate as a recording studio or museum. It was also pretty obvious that Uli Behringer’s
purchase of Midas and Klark Teknik would hit the top ten. The announcements that followed the sale were in response to readers concern that its new owner should respect the heritage and name of the brand. Another big announcement was Avid’s release of
Pro Tools 9, which opened the software up to third part interfaces, a new feature that was added as a result of customer feedback. What I took from researching this feature is that the feedback from people like you actually does make a difference. The comments, letters and petitions, whether submitted in writing or on forums and websites is read and taken into consideration, so keep up the good work. Andrew Low- Editor
andrew.low@intentmedia.co.uk
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