The owners of the Scala nightclub in King’s Cross, London, decided the sound system in the main area needed an upgrade. So what do they go for? I’ll give you a hint. Whoever installed the new rig came out looking like a Smurf. Yup – Turbosound. This from ET Now The original Turbosound...

EDIROL is still in shoving around in the moshpit of field recording technology, and with its new R-44, the company has its most compact, powerful and lightweight recorder to date. It’s taken just four years for EDIROL to establish themselves as major players in the field recorder market. The ‘R’ range...

Somehow Audiotechnews gets quite a few requests to review Sat Nav units, which has proved to be quite handy as he has recently taken over the position as tour manager. Putting his trust in the Panasonic Strada CN-GP50 this time, and without the aid of multimap, Audiotechnews trooped off to Sommerset last...

US bluesman, Joe Bonamassa, is currently on the European leg of a world tour with a PA rig based around Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system and a WZ312M compact dedicated monitor mixer. Bonamassa’s FOH engineer, Jay Phebus, recently started using an iLive system, comprising an iDR10 mix rack...

Every now and again, we like to look after our subscribers by giving them access to information that no one else can get. In the near future, we may have something coming along which saves you money as well as helps to find you work – but we’ll announce that if and when it happens. For now though...