Andy Meyer: Big Ben for Live Sound
Posted on: August 26, 2008
Posted in: Artists, Big Ben, Products, Video
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F.O.H. Engineer Andy Meyer describes his experience with Apogee’s Big Ben as a live sound master clock and why it clocks his live digital console every time. Meyer and Big Ben have toured with Motley Crue, Justin Timberlake, Sevendust, Rage Against The Machine and Janet Jackson delivering cleaner, clearer sound to the masses.
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Video Transcript
“Hi, I’m Andy Meyer… I’m here to talk about the Apogee Big Ben and what a great product it is. I’ve been utilizing it on multiple tours, going on now for quite a few years… probably five years, I think.”
“From the rock bands like Sevendust to Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Motley Crue, Rage Against the Machine, on and on and on, I’ve employed this piece of gear and it’s been wonderful.”
“When I, first, got on a PM5D, it was not as sonically pleasing as I had hoped for, so in searching for a solution to correct this, I came across the Apogee Big Ben, which is an awesome, awesome word clock. I tied it into the console and not only did it increase imaging, it also vastly improved the sonic quality of the console.”
“In applying it to the Digidesign Venue, I find that the low-mids are a little tighter, the high-end smoothes out a bit, and imaging is also improved a bit- not as, nearly as drastic as on the Yamaha product, because the Digidesign Venue is a truly great console with a really good clock in it. But, still, the Big Ben does improve upon that.”
“Also, in playback and recording, I have a CD player that will accept 48k and I also clock that with the Big Ben and that is an unbelievably radical change in audio. When you clock the CD player, it is truly impressive in how good it really sounds.”