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Dave Mustaine rocks out in GLX-D Webinar
Read MoreAbout a mile off the 101 in Oxnard, California sits an industrial park surrounded by mountains off in the distance. Inside one of these buildings sits the Drum Channel video facility where the walls were about to be shaken by shredding guitar riffs. For on Tuesday April 15, legendary Megadeth founder and frontman Dave Mustaine came in as a guest of Shure to help us show off our amazing GLXD16 wireless system during a live webinar hosted by Guitar Center. We were very excited when Dave agreed to be a part of this. We sent him …
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Backstage With Paul: The Jacksons & Kansas City BBQ
Read MoreIn early July, Rolling Stone called and asked me to go to the Jackson’s Victory Tour opening in Kansas City. Turns out, they liked the Springsteen and Prince photos, too. I flew down the night before the first show and went to the press conference at the Hyatt in downtown Kansas City. What a circus! Don King was the promoter for the tour, and he was everywhere, big hair and all. Michael was on stage wearing one glove, the first time anyone saw that affectation. When the press conference was done, we were all invited …
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Broadcast and Video
How to Mic a DSLR Video
Read MoreShure Contributors: Thomas Banks, Chris Lyons, Gino Sigismondi Consider this: On YouTube alone, over 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute of every day. More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the three major television networks combined have created in the past sixty years. The 51-second shot-in-a-dorm-room “Harlem Shake” garnered 36 million shares last year. There are other equally staggering stats, but one fact emerges: thanks to advances in technology (especially smart phones) more and more people are shooting videos. And many of them, nearly 15 million or so, have purchased …
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A Week of Open Mic Nights: Find Venues Near You
Forty-eight venues. Yup. Count ‘em. Forty-eight. In this our third year of sponsoring a week-long celebration of community music events that we call National Open Mic Night, our participating venue list is longer than ever. …
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ULX-D Digital Wireless in the H50 Band: FAQs
Recently, we made ULX-D® available in the H50 band, so I sat down with Senior Manager of Shure Systems Support Gino Sigismondi to get a better understanding of the benefits of this new offering. Here’s …
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What’s the Problem? Three Tools for Troubleshooting Audio Systems
Whether you’re preparing to play a show for an intimate crowd of twenty or prepping the audio solutions for a headlining tour, the odds are, audio problems will find you. The key to troubleshooting is …
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KSM9: A good bet for a Las Vegas House of Worship
When most of us think of chapels in Las Vegas, the images that come to mind are of the drive-through wedding variety with an Elvis impersonator officiating. But here’s the real secret that Sin City …
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Shure Artist Relations narrations from the road
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SM58 – A Haiku
The news of Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s death yesterday saddened me. We lost one of the most creative human beings of our time. He enchanted us with his magical realism that combined …
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Nelson’s Do’s and Dont’s at Concerts
Because of my job doing Artist Relations for Shure I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing some pretty amazing shows. I’ve also had the opportunity to catch some pretty bad ones. Not that I’m complaining… It …
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