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    Playing live and sounding 'bigger', then the trials of moving to using tracks with clicks and IEMs

    I thought you might find this interesting - my old band playing 100% live and how we made four voices sound a bit bigger, then the story of how we had reluctantly to start using tracks, when our founding member became ill and had trouble playing the stuff he'd done for 20+ years! part 1 live...
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    JBL VRX 932LA Constant Curvature Arrays - love or hate them, but here's mine going in .....

    Loads of people really don't like these systems, and I've got very used to this over the years but I like them - so here's a little video that chat's through them and then shows them going into a venue that has a particular problem - 1400 seats, one level and very limited height - and the VRX...
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    Recording Grand Piano

    I've put together another video on the topic of recording grand pianos. I used pairs of 414s, 451s and cheap Samson C01s - deliberately recorded in an ordinary house, so you can hear the kinds of results with different techniques and experiments. Again, the differences between brands is less...
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    Ever need to record saxophones? Not the most obvious instruments.

    I've been knocking on producing some help style videos for YouTube - mainly as a response to friends on forums, where being able to hear things makes more sense. One guy was asking about sax recording and it popped into my head that many people really don't get to record them that often, and...
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    Microphones for YouTube - SM7B or the humble SM57?

    We've started to put together a series of honest reviews in a practical sense, based on kit we own. We're lucky enough to own some quite nice mics, but on the internet so many people are recommending brand X and knocking brand Y because they've heard other people doing the same thing, I often...
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    JBL VRX Constant Curvature Systems

    In the UK, this system is rarely mentioned despite having been available for years. I bought and paid for a system which arrived just a week before lockdown killed the world. Reviews on the net were a bit like the British food - Marmite. People either love it or hate it, never in the middle. In...