Monthly Archive: January 2024

Nick Mason Saucerful of Secrets Band Tour Photos (133)

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets 2024 Tour Dates Added

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets 2024 Tour band has announced a couple more concerts adding to the 6 Italian ones announced recently. We announced back on 20th December, as an early Christmas surprise, that the tour was kicking off again in 2024. Six dates were announced across Italy including Rome, Milan and others too. In addition to those, there are two more announced. The first is a second concert in Rome on the 21st July 2024. It takes place at Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, Italy. The second takes place at the Breitenbach am Herzberg Festival in Breitenbach, Germany. This is a 12,000 attendance hippy festival and claims to be the biggest such gathering of hippies in Europe. A sight to behold I am sure. 2024-06-18 : Nick Mason at Teatro Arcimboldi, Milan, Italy2024-06-19 : Nick Mason at Piazza Dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy2024-06-20 : Nick Mason at Sequoie Music Park, Bologna, Italy2024-06-22 : Nick Mason at Unknown...

Re-Creating Pink Floyd's Mixing Desk in 2024

Pink Floyd’s Quad Sound Mixer Recreated

CH Vintage Audio’s Chris Hewitt, and Allen and Heath co founder Andy Bereza, have been busy recreating a sound mixing desk that Pink Floyd used from Pompeii in 1971 through the Dark Side of the Moon tour. The mixing desk is the piece of equipment that all the microphones and instruments plug into to blend and change the sounds with effects and EQ for example. That then plugs into the amplifiers and out through the WEM PA System. The PA systems of Pink Floyd are covered in great detail in the three books that Chris has released. Chris told NPF, “It’s a working  re creation  built by me and guided by Andy Bereza who designed and built the original which ( no longer exists ) was used between 1971 and 1974 so spanned Pompeii through Dark Side of The Moon and drove both of The Floyd PA systems  I own ie the WEM...