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Paul David Hager: Working Both Sides of the Fence

This studio and FOH engineer has worked with an enviable roster of A-list clients — Miley Cyrus, Goo Goo Dolls, Pink, Demi Lovato, Avril Lavigne, Devo, Katy Perry, Beck, Jane’s Addiction, Selena Gomez and many more. John McJunkin chats with him about his life and career.

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John Mlynczak

NAMM’s incoming new president/CEO talks about the importance of the upcoming January show and its relationship with the pro audio market and the live event production industry.

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James Gordon

The CEO of Audiotonix — the parent company of Allen & Heath, Calrec, DiGiCo, DiGiGrid and Solid State Logic — discusses life, career and gizmos.

James Gordon loves gear. It started at an early age when his father, who worked for EMI in London, started taking him to work.

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Robert Scovill on tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 2017

Q&A with Robert Scovill

Robert Scovill mostly got off the road a few years back to lend his skills and experience to Avid in developing their emerging line of VENUE digital consoles, most recently the SL6. But the road still calls, and when it’s Tom Petty on the other end, he tends to say “Yes.” He came through my town, St. Louis, and he and the band put on a sonically superb show. Apparently, it was not a fluke. As the 40th Anniversary Tour sees the light at the end of the tunnel, I made this extremely busy engineer (and recipient of multiple Parnelli awards for FOH Engineer of the Year) sit down with me.

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NAMM CEO Joe Lamond and Parnelli Executive Producer Terry Lowe

The Parnelli Awards Move to NAMM

Strategic Alliance to Benefit All Sides of Music and Live Entertainment

As announced last month, NAMM is expanding their January Anaheim trade show to further include the live event production industry, and a big part of that strategy is bringing the Parnelli Awards to it. One factor making this possible is Anaheim Convention Center’s 200,000 square foot expansion, which will allow pro audio, lighting, staging, video, and all related manufacturers to have space available to them to exhibit at an international trade show that already pulls in over 100,000 professional registrants.

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Adamson Systems gear has been used on recent tours for the band Linkin Park, pictured here.

Milestones: Brock Adamson’s Company Marks 30 Years

Founded in 1983 by Brock Adamson, Ontario-based Adamson Systems has evolved from a small operation into a leading supplier of cutting-edge products for the professional touring and installation market. Today, Adamson products can be found gracing world-class performing facilities, houses of worship and on stages supporting some of the best-known musical acts in the world.

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Jerry Krulewicz – A Wired Life

Jerry Krulewicz has wired the last four decades of the live event industry. From his days as a teen working with big bands to Broadway, through Saturday Night Live to a political summit at the threshold of Soviet Union's fall to the Olympics and houses of worship, he's stared down every technical challenge with one simple approach: There must be a better way.

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Tom Abraham: FOH Engineer, Unchained

An admission. When I put the wheels in motion to cover Alice in Chains on their stop in Vegas, my motives were less-than-transparent. Truth is, FOH photographer and production manager Linda Evans (who also happens to be my wife) had some really great shots of the band that she took at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, and I really wanted to be able to use them.

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