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NEWS James Brown Tour Gets On Up with Focusrite SAFFIRE for Recording Live Sound (06/26) FOH engineer, Gavin Pearce, is currently on tour with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and records each night's performance using Focusrite's Saffire, the ultimate professional quality mobile DAW interface.Gavin has just finished the latest leg of the James Brown tour and will be embarking to Europe at the end of June for the next leg, swinging back through the USA in August. "The Saffire has been traveling with me on the road for recording the shows," states Gavin, "It's compact and it sounds great!"With a musical upbringing Gavin Pearce was destined to end up with a career in sound, but when he took his first mixing gig at the age of 18, he could only have hoped to be doing what he is d Meyer Sound Mythbusters Brown Sound, Echoing Duck and Breaking Glass (07/21) By now, the legion of fans of the Discovery Channel’s intrepid “Mythbusters” tv show are well acquainted with Meyer Sound. First, the show’s two hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, called on Meyer Sound Staff Scientist Dr. Roger Schwenke to test the urban myth that a duck’s quack does not echo (it does). The two returned several months later and fetched Schwenke once more to assist in determining whether or not there is a “brown note:” a low frequency which, when played at sufficient volume, causes “involuntary intestinal motility” in humans. That investigation ended up entailing a dozen modified Meyer Sound 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers and the efforts of John Meyer and several other Meyer Sound to test the Brown Note (shit yourself thread) in MythBusters (09/24) The "Brown Noise To Make U Shit Yourself" has been the most popular thread on the message board here over the last year and now it seems it has been put through the test.Meyer Sound products and personnel were central to a new episode of MythBusters, the popular weekly television show appearing on the Discovery Channel. The quirky series, produced by Australia’s Beyond Productions, combines hard science and wacky humor as its two hosts, seasoned special effects wizards and all-around gadgetry freaks Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, debunk or, occasionally, confirm various urban legends. Topics investigated by MythBusters have ranged from getting stuck on a flushing airplane toilet to removing New Life To A Classic Album Jackson Browne's Running On Empty (03/20) Greg Ladanyi Brings New Life To A Classic Album Jackson Browne's Running On Empty refuels with the System 6000If you were around in the seventies, you remember Running On Empty -- Jackson Browne's groundbreaking concept album that celebrated both the joys and hassles of being a touring musician. Recorded in various acoustic environments onstage, in hotel rooms, even in the tour bus this is one classic that's a natural for a surround remix. And there's no one better qualified to handle those chores than famed producer Greg Ladanyi, who served as the album's original engineer. One thing that Ladanyi has learned through the years is to choose the right piece of equipment for the job, and his T.

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