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The BIG Reason

Music, opinions, and portfolio of Mark Eagleton, musician and web developer in Northern CA.

Whoa! There's An App For That

New advancements in pro audio suddenly blow me away. I forgot how useful electricity could be when applied to musics.

I played an outdoor show with the Pleasant Valley Boys last Sunday that had a pretty over-the-top sound system. Pretty over the top for the Americana music festival we played. Gratuitously beyond all reason for bluegrass.

Now that I mostly play music suited to smaller venues (or at least smaller music), I guess I’ve fallen out of the arena rock sound reenforcement loop. So it surprised me to be standing on stage with the sound man when the bass amp and our condenser mic realized they could play a funny trick on the 4 x 18" subwoofer cabinets underneath the stage and the sound man quickly whipped out his iPad and remotely made the necessary EQ adjustments to the board 50 meters away!

He then took the opportunity to adjust my monitors for me while we were both standing there on stage. Wow! I can’t wait until they make these apps for the smaller, portible power-mixer space.

I’ll be watching the area.