Sitting, literally, under the stage of the Auditorium at the Community of Christ's international headquarters in Independence, Mo., event media systems coordinator Bob Haworth is thinking about the changes he's seen at the place where he's worked for the past 40 years.
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OMG!!!!!! Heil drum mics are my new BFF!!!!! Now that I've made myself sound like a Valley Girl, I'll try to compose myself and act like the audio professional that I am. (Hah!)
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It has been more than 10 years since dbx introduced the first DriveRack. To say that the DriveRack has been a success is a huge understatement. This product line has changed how many sound technicians set up and manage their sound systems. Not to mention how so many installations are designed with DriveRacks as part of the system.
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After graduating from college with a degree in electrical engineering, George Clark started to look around for something to do. His older brother, Houston, had a business degree and years of experience in information systems as a software salesman. He was looking for something different to do.
Read More »We've been seeing tons of hardware audio consoles with sophisticated software. Now here's a twist from RML Labs: a software console that has no hardware. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but let's take a look at a cutting edge audio application that is not tied to a specific piece of hardware. The program is called SAC or Software Audio Console, and it has some pretty impressive features.
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I was mixing sound for a church Christmas production consisting of a choir with 94 voices, a 20 voice children's choir, two flutists, a double bass, percussion, viola, harp, piano and a pipe organ.
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Have you ever heard the saying, "Ask 100 engineers that question, and you'll get 100 different answers?" That can be said about how stage monitors are selected and placed. Whether it be wide dispersion, narrow dispersion, horns in, horns out, wedge angles, horn throat sizes – the list goes on and on. There are hundreds of products out there and just as many ways to achieve the same goal.
Read More »Every month, I try to write something that will be useful to all of you out there, whether you volunteer your services at your house of worship or you mix and install worship sound systems as a part or all of your income. This month I would also like to include those of you who work with live sound, but not necessarily in the house of worship sound arena.
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As I am writing this article, it is that time of year once again. As you are reading this article, that time of year is already on the wane. But despite my inability to plan ahead so that you might be able to read a timely piece of poignant journalism, let me be one of the last to say "Happy New Year."
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HONG KONG – This past winter, the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre performed 20 shows of Leslie Bricusse's Scrooge, a musical based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, at the Hong Kong City Hall's 463-seat proscenium theatre, putting HKRep's new Meyer Sound system to use.
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LOS ANGELES – The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, broadcast live on CBS in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound, featured artists ranging from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to Lady Gaga, Elton John, Green Day, and a Les Paul tribute, pictured here, pairing Jeff Beck and Imelda May. ATK/Audiotek supplied the main live audio system.
Read More »NEW YORK – Trade publisher Penton Media – publisher of audio, installation and production titles including Mix, Live Design and Sound & Video Contractor and producers of the annual LDI show – announced that it is filing a "strategic" Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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