We are gearing up for the summer festival season. Coming up is the High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, CA July 5-8. We will be doing sound at the Americana Stage and the Funk & Jam Room. If you go please visit us there.

Accurately capturing the natural sound of an acoustic instrument in the recording studio can be a tricky endeavor, requiring some combination of time, money and experimentation. But Tom Macomber, banjo player with the gospel band Summer Church and the owner of an independent record label, Walkin' On Water Records, believes he has found what he has long been looking for with Drawmer's 1968 ME, a special edition two-channel tube/FET compressor that simply illuminates the true character of his instrument. Full Article

When cannons roared and rifles fired in the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima," the Academy Award winner for best achievement in sound editing, some of the sound was recorded on microphones manufactured by Heil Sound Ltd. of Fairview Heights.

Local sound wizard Bob Heil said Charles Maynes, a sound designer who works with director Clint Eastwood, collected the sounds and sent them to the sound editors who blended them.

Heil said Maynes saw the Heil professional line of microphones at a trade show out west and was immediately hooked. "He was infatuated with the microphone, which was developed to take huge sound levels," Heil said.

The microphones, developed to take a beating from nearby bass drums and like it, made it much easier for recording engineers to get the big booming sounds needed for the movie. "Usually when they fired a big gun, they needed several mikes set up at intervals to capture the sound. It only took one of these," Heil said.

Heil said his $350 professional mikes are a new step in technology in a field that hadn't changed much for 30 years.

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This Months Feature - Wireless

For you folks out there interested in exploring the use of some wireless pizzazz, it may interest you to know who out there in the music jungle is using what, and we’re just the animals to help you find it! Hold on to your horses people…

First up we have one of our personal favorites, Rod Stewart. Mr. Stewart is touring with the AKG PT 4000 wireless system, which you can read more about at http://www.akg.com/

Next on our list are two artists touring their pants off with the Shure U4D wireless system. This is the system of choice for both, Billy Joel and John Mayer. More info on this product can be found at http://www.shure.com/

Third on the list is El Numero Uno  on the touring list this month; Mr. Justin Timberlake. Timberlake is on tour with the Audio Technica Artist Elite 5000 Series Wireless with T4100 transmitter. More info on this bad boy (not Mr. Timberlake), can be found here http://www.audio-technica.com/

Bob Seger is also touring on these sweet summer nights with the Audio Technica Artist Elite 5000 Series Wireless which he says "is like a rock."

Sweetwave Audio can help you with all of your wireless needs. Just give us a shout! 1-877-258-0563

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