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Save Our Sound UK campaign

by Andy Reynolds November 11, 2009

The Save Our Sound UK campaign launched yesterday to raise awareness that Ofcom will shortly sell-off the radio frequencies that this industry and charitable sectors rely on, with auction proceeds going to the Government. As a consequence of this ‘migration’, the vast majority of the UK’s stocks of wireless microphones, which are essential tools for [...]

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In-house sound systems and the touring market

by Andy Reynolds November 5, 2009

I recently saw this article about the venue Rock City in Nottingham,England which has always featured on any decent UK tour of 1000+ capacity venues and has recently installed a complete touring-class PA system. I read the article about this install and immediately thought “the Rock City audio crew are going to be spending a [...]

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Welcome to Andy Reynolds’s Live Music Business – BETA

by Andy Reynolds November 4, 2009

My name is Andy Reynolds, I am a freelance concert tour manager and live audio engineeer who has been working in the concert touring industry for nearly 25 years.I also lecture in Live Sound Production at Buckinghamshire New University and have written several books about the live music business. This is a BETA site – [...]

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Digital mixing – missing the visual approach

by Andy Reynolds November 1, 2009

I am not going to start any kind of analogue vs. digital debate here. I love digital desks for their recall, automation of repetitive tasks and their ability to deal with complex routing and patching without having to use a ton of XLR cables and remote boxes. I think the sound quality of the A-D-A [...]

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Sennheiser Education Day at the British Music Experience

by Andy Reynolds October 20, 2009

Sennheiser recently sponsored an ‘Education Day’ at the British Music Experience at the O2 Bubble in London. My Audio & Music Production students were invited along and were treated, amongst other topics, to a passionate explanation of the current RF spectrum changes affecting ‘Program Making and Special Events’ users. (That’s everyone with a piece of [...]

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Reliability of touring digital consoles

by Andy Reynolds October 17, 2009

I have been informed by a biased source that the the same Chinese factory that produces components for a well-known UK outboard manufacturer’s least expensive range also manufacturers the digital control surfaces for a major US hardware/software company.

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‘It’s the greatest job in the world’

by Andy Reynolds February 2, 2009

An interesting article from the Guardian newspaper – now I know what my job is! And DFW? See the full piece by clicking here An excerpt: “They are a secret army – the roadies, managers, stylists and technicians who make gigs happen. In the first of a series about unsung heroes in the arts, Alexis [...]

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‘The Tour Book’ – review in Performing Musician magazine

by Andy Reynolds September 11, 2008

The tour diary will continue, in the meantime here is a great review of ‘The Tour Book’ in Performing Musican magazine (published by Sound On Sound publishers). “While the record industry is in terminal (and some might say justified) decline, the live touring industry is flourishing. Whereas as few decades ago touring was regarded as [...]

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A Tour Manager diary part 5

by Andy Reynolds July 1, 2008

One of the onerous tasks associated with concert tour management is that of arranging work permits and visas in order for the travelling party to enter certain countries. I say onerous as the tour manager has to deal with foreign government organisations that have extremely strict procedures and regulations regarding the admittance of hairy rock [...]

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A Tour Manager diary part 4

by Andy Reynolds June 10, 2008

I use a simple Excel spreadsheet to put together my LPE/tour budget. I have created and amended the sheet over the years and am now pretty happy with it. As well as helping make basic calculations the sheet also acts as a memory aid as it contains categories for most of the expenses a large [...]

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