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Drummer Ben Sesar went to great lengths fit in with the rest of the Drama Kings. His gold and red paisley sparkle Spaun kit was designed and painted on with the aid of Adobe Illustrator . The Illustrator Toolbox was used to layout the spacing and size of the paisley stenciling.
Hey There,
It’s once again time for another ACL Gear Blog. This week: Brad Paisley.
This was Brad’s third taping and as always he brought a great band and
a wonderful tech crew with him. Since it was a hectic day and I didn’t
have time to take as thorough notes as I would have liked, this entry
will focus more on pretty pictures than pretty words.
Even
though Studio 6A is a fully equipped soundstage, some artists prefer to
bring in there own monitoring and Front of House (FOH) consoles setups
. While it’s more labor intensive, it does allow the artist’s audio
engineers quicker recall and familiarity of a preferred control
interface.
Brad’s Front of House engineer is Kevin Freeman.
Kevin has been a pro sound man since the early eighties getting his
start with none other than Iron Maiden. Kevin is using a Midas board.
Hey there. My name is Kevin and I’m an audio engineer for Austin City
Limits. I’m also a musician and love to scope out the gear and
instruments visiting artists bring on to our show to play. The
producers of ACL have been kind enough to let me blog (finally…) about
the things you see the musicians bang, strum, and make other noises
with on our show.
Updates will probably be pretty sporadic since:
1) We are at the end of our taping season and won’t be filming anything new until later this year.
2) Not every artist is comfortable having someone go around and
snapping pictures of the things they own and presenting them for public
consumption and that’s fine.
3) I’m lazy.
Our first installment is Roky Erickson.