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How SXSW Helps Keep Austin Profitable

How SXSW Helps Keep Austin Profitable

Back in July, this column underscored how UK Music, the British non-profit trade and lobbying organization, has been helping that country's live music industry, both by quantifying it and through legislative advocacy. For instance, this year, a UK Music survey found that large-scale live music events, such as festivals, are contributing over £1.4 billion a year – that's nearly $2.2 billion – to the U.K. economy from all sources, including ticket sales and travel to the event locations.

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Filters: High-Pass, Low-Pass and Band-Pass

Among the more useful tools in the audio toolbox are a variety of filters. Some engineers shun the use of filters in favor of EQ, which can, of course, be very powerful, but filters are your friends and can do things that EQ can't. The three most common filters used in pro audio are high-pass, low-pass and band-pass. In case you need a refresher: a high-pass filter cuts low frequencies, a low-pass filter cuts highs, and a band-pass cuts high and low frequencies simultaneously, allowing a midrange band to pass.

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Earning Money in the Worship Audio World

As you know, "Sound Sanctuary" seeks to find common ground between those audio techs who volunteer their services and those who are paid to provide audio expertise. This month's installment only covers those of you who currently make money (or wish to make money) in worship sound. However, if you are an audio volunteer, please read on.

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Relevance

From the Encarta Dictionary: "Relevant (adjective) 1. Connected: having some sensible or logical connection with something else such as a matter being discussed or investigated. 2.Having social significance; having some bearing on or importance for real-world issues, present-day events, or the current state of society."

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Electro Acoustics Redesigns Sound at TCU Stadium with JBL VLA Line Arrays

FORT WORTH, TX – Home to the Texas Christian University (TCU) Horned Frogs' football team, Amon G. Carter Stadium is currently undergoing a multi-million-dollar rebuild, with construction scheduled to be completed in 2012. The stadium's new audio system, however, was completed in time for the 2011 football season. Installed by Fort Worth, Texas-based Electro Acoustics, the system features a variety of JBL loudspeakers, including VLA line arrays.

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Starlike Equips Expanded Korundi House of Culture with Community Gear

ROVANIEMI, Finland – Starlike Oy opted for Community iBOX series loudspeakers to enhance the carefully-designed acoustics within the new 340-seat concert auditorium for the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, part of the expanded Korundi House of Culture. There are L-R clusters of two Community iHP1566, a center cluster of two iHP1266, two 18" i118S subwoofers and four iHP1266 units for moveable fill and point effects, along with 12 I/05 loudspeakers for surround sound. The system is powered by Yamaha P-series amplifiers, with Yamaha DME24N for DSP. The mixer is a Yamaha LS9-16.

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Korean Mega-Church Installs QSC KLA Line Array System

WESTMINSTER, CA – Korean First Presbyterian Church of Orange County, a mega church with more than a thousand members and a 30-year history in the area, recently upgraded with QSC's KLA Line Array Loudspeaker System. Aviwork, Inc. of Fullerton, CA handled the installation and was tasked with designing a sound solution to meet the challenges of the shallow and wide sanctuary, which also has a number of balconies.

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IATSE Local 22 Updates Wolf Trap Delay Loudspeaker System with JBL VerTec Gear

VIENNA, VA – For the 7,000-seat Filene Center at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Matt Snyder and other IATSE Local 22 crew members upgraded the delay loudspeaker system with JBL VerTec VT4886 subcompact line array elements and VT4883 subwoofers. The crew members used JBL Line Array Calculator III speaker configuration and acoustic modeling software and SMAART and SIM software for fine-tuning.

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Canadian Theatrical Productions Relying on Countryman Gear

LONDON and STRATFORD, Ontario – Jim Neil, head of audio at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, who is also a sound designer for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, has been using Countryman E6 and B6 microphones over the past six years for productions including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cookin' at the Cookery.

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