An article comparing the buffets at the major casinos would be more interesting. "The shrimp at the Bellagio vastly outperforms the shrimp anywhere else". Then we could question the statement by asking if they were comparing the shrimp alone or taking into account the temperature, the quality of the lemon juice, or the cocktail sauce.
The tours that have articles written about them are rarely doing anything innovative or even interesting. If they are, it certainly isn't being conveyed in the articles. The last thing we need to read about is a guy with a line array hung left/right and a digital console plopped down in the center of an arena. The only things I can think of that were interesting were the amp racks out on Muse, Dave Rat's sideways mix position concept, Pearl Jam sending stems from the recording truck to FOH, and the L/C/R hang that Scovill used on Petty.
I don't think I have ever read an article in one of these magazines that touches mixing technique, or better yet what is going into the monitor mixes. What does Paul Simon like to hear in his monitors? I bet it's not Art Garfunkel! The artists that we work for are usually pretty interesting people, and as monitor engineers, part (most) of the job is trying to interpret what they need without them saying it and learning that when they say "I need more sparkle in the low end" it means well, in this case it just means turn up the vocals a bit.
