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Since its founding in 2001 by pastor Chris Hodges and a core group of 34 people, the growth of Church of the Highlands has been nothing short of astounding. In that time, the multi-site megachurch has grown to two dozen campus locations, mostly in central Alabama and centered around Birmingham. …

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Photo above: Caleb James mixing monitors for Kehlani on one of the tour’s two Quantum338 consoles Recently completing a 28-date North American run, plus two more shows in South Africa, Kehlani is now on the cusp of carrying their Blue Water Road Trip over to Europe and the United Kingdom …

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Look under the hood of Thomas Rhett’s just-concluded “Bring the Bar to You” Tour, a 30-date US trek that kept him and his band busy from June to mid-October, and you’d have seen a complex technical signal path and workflow worthy of any arena-level pop performance. In preparation for the …

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AES 2022 sees DiGiCo reveal the latest in its range of theatre-targeted Quantum consoles, the all-new Quantum338T. With “in the box” mixing reducing the need for outboard equipment and a lightweight control surface, the addition of the most recent theatre-specific software features makes the Quantum338T perfect for regional and touring …

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From 2014 to 2017, the University of Houston Cougars football team won 16 straight games on its home gridiron—the John O’Quinn Field at TDECU Stadium—marking the longest active home winning streak in the nation at the time. However, the PA system for the facility, which opened in August of 2014, …

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Established in 1871, mainly by the diaspora of Danish farmers flocking to Cedar Falls, Iowa, for the territory’s fertile soil, Nazareth Lutheran Church has undergone various changes over its past 150 years. Like many other houses of worship, one of those updates was a choice to host both traditional choir/organ …

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Photo above: VMH has already hosted Thievery Corporation, Flogging Molly, Switchfoot, Trevor Hall, Mike Campbell, SOJA, The Garden, Hot Chip, Citizen Cope, Weyes Blood, and others (photo credit: Keith Zacharski) What used to be Discovery, a party-themed space in Midtown Ventura, the heart of that coastal suburb north of Los …

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Photo above: Greg Nelson mixing Incubus on the 2022 Summer Tour’s L-Acoustics K1/K2 loudspeaker system via a DiGiCo Quantum338 console Over the past 30 years, California rock band Incubus has sold more than 23 million albums and headlined numerous music festivals and tours around the world. The group’s latest Live …

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Following a lengthy five-year touring hiatus, North American fans of OneRepublic were justifiably thrilled to catch the Colorado Springs-founded band on its recent Never Ending Summer Tour, which stopped at more than 40 arenas, theaters, amphitheaters and pavilions between early July and mid-September. Equally elated were FOH engineer Justin Ripley …

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Country-pop singer/songwriter Kelsea Ballerini just released her fifth studio album, Subject to Change, on September 23, following it up with the first US leg of her Heartfirst Tour kicking off at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall the very next day. What hasn’t changed, however, is her audio crew’s reliance on …

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