Sixty years into his career Sir Tom Jones is recently wrapping a 74-date tour of the UK, Europe and North America. The Ages & Stages Tour showcases songs from throughout his career, with an SSL Live L550 Plus console at FOH and a Live L100 Plus on a B rig for some tight turnarounds on the European leg of the tour.

Gavin Tempany is at FOH for the tour explaining that ‘with the routing of this tour we have to have two sets of equipment. On the A rig, I have an L550 Plus, which offers 38 faders as standard. On the B rig, I’m using an L100 Plus with an external Fader Tile, providing a total of 26 faders – 14 on the console itself and 12 more with the remote Fader Tile.’

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Hosting touring musicals, dance productions, comedy and drama, the Theatre Royal Plymouth (TRP) recently followed the installation of EM Acoustics loudspeaker systems its the 200-seat Drum Theatre and 50-seat Lab. Following suite in the 1,300-capacity Lyric Theatre (which can be reduced to 800 through the adjustment of a unique moving roof) replacing a 30-year-old sound system with an EM Reference Series system.

‘I’ve been using EM products for years across all the venues in the theatre,’ says Head of Sound Dan Mitcham. ‘We’ve always had a great relationship with them, and the upgrade to EM for the Lyric just made sense – we knew what the products were capable of.

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Sleep Token have divided the world of metal, some seeing their use of influences from outside of the genre as groundbreaking, others as heretical. From lyrics delivered by frontman Vessel that address non-metal, and often personal, issues to the technical precision and genre-mining of the beat beneath them from ‘II’, they are an enigmatic prospect. The British band also obscure their identities by playing masked, and have largely avoided engaging with both fans and the music press.

FOH engineer Thom Pike has been with the band since their third gig in 2018. For most recent tour, his mixing desk of choice was a DiGiCo Quantum 338, with Samuel Schmitt, a long-time DiGiCo user, also using a Quantum 338 for his monitor mix.

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Evergreen Enterprise Experience has opened Studio One at its expansive music production and postproduction campus in Burbank, California. Now the studio’s flagship production room at the revitalised Enterprise Studios, it features a 72-channel Solid State Logic Duality Fuse SuperAnalogue mixing console.

The move follows Evergreen Studios earlier installation of the first Duality Fuse in the world in Studio A, when it opened in 2021.

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Two packed concerts marked the official opening of Assembly, the former site of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, now reinvented as the newest live events space in Kingston in upstate New York. The venue is the latest in a string of projects designed to inject fresh energy into the arts and music culture of the Hudson Valley.

Behind it are event promoters Drew Frankel and Peter Himberger of Impact Concerts, who partnered with CB Developers to purchase and renovate the space with the aim of creating a thriving centre for small to mid-sized events that could serve as a community space for live music, dance, theatre and film screenings. For a sound quality to match the vision, Assembly founders brought in acoustic design specialist WSDG.

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