About a month ago, I worked on a show in a ballroom that measured about 300 feet by 200 feet. The mix position was placed at the back of the room. Our system was fairly large and included an AVID Venue digital console with a digital snake, which was a beautiful thing, considering that the length of the snake tapped out at over 400 feet.
Read More »In January, I went to the Winter NAMM show, and I was very impressed with what I heard and saw. There were a lot of new products that seemed to be more methodically designed. What I mean is, more thought as to what the end users' needs and purposes are. It seemed like research and development had improved, and the quality of construction seemed better.
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Everyone I know is a production manager and, most likely, if you are reading this column, you're a production manager as well. Apparently it is a prerequisite for anyone in our line of work to have a business card that not only announces a technical bent but also alerts the world to the fact that the bearer of the card is also a production manager.
Read More »Owsley "Bear" Stanley, longtime sound engineer for The Grateful Dead, died from injuries sustained in an auto accident March 13 in Canberra, Australia. He was 76. Known as an early developer of LSD and also for the creation of the Grateful Dead's dancing bear icons, Stanley is also credited with audio innovations including the "Wall of Sound" used at Grateful Dead concerts in 1974, a precursor to line arrays.
Read More »SALT LAKE CITY – The AVnu Alliance held an AVB plugfest recently at Harman Professional's Signal Processing Group in Salt Lake City. Harman and five other manufactures participated in the plugfest, giving engineers from the different companies a hands-on opportunity to test connectivity, interoperability and interfaces.
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DELHI – For a society wedding with 2,000 guests, the entertainment included Canada's Cirque Eloize acrobatic show with surround sound enhancement provided by a TiMax SoundHub-S. The spectacle included synchronized animated audio and video on the dance floor.
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NASHVILLE, TN – In 2009, Lady Antebellum earned a Grammy Award for Best New Artist; this year, they picked up Best Album of the Year. For two years, the still-relatively "new" band has had a relentless performing and touring schedule, with an assist from Sennheiser 935 capsules on all of the stage vocals, as specified by FOH engineer Brett "Scoop" Blanden.
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SURABAYA, Indonesia – The Evangelist Graha Bethany Nginden Church has been equipped with an L-Acoustics K1/KARA WST line source system provided by L-Acoustics' distributor in South East Asia, Sennheiser Electronic Asia, and Tri Tunggal Abadi.
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EMINENCE, KY – Eminence Speaker LLC promoted Josh Martin to technology sales manager. He will be responsible for a new technology that the company calls D-FEND, which provides programmable control over key performance characteristics of passive systems and loudspeakers.
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BRENTWOOD, MO – Ironman Sound Industries (ISI) has moved to new offices near the intersection of I-64 and Hanley in Brentwood, Missouri. The new address is 1005 Hanley Industrial Court, Brentwood, MO 63144.
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AUSTIN, TX – The One 2 One Bar on 5th St. in downtown Austin is one of many local spots where Heil Sound microphones were expected to be used during this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.
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LONDON – R&B star Jason Derulo has completed a string of U.K. dates as part of his debut world tour, accompanied by a Midas PRO6 at front of house.
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