NORTHRIDGE, CA — Rent-A-Amp, sound reinforcement company, recently provided the live audio system for the Plymouth Jazz Festival, held on the Caribbean island of Tobago, supported by JBL Professional VerTec line arrays.
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Baltimore, MD––MHA Audio of Hagerstown, Maryland, provided audio coverage and sonic quality at the Second U.S. Virgin Festival’s South Stage and Dance Tent via left and right hangs of Martin Audio’s W8L Longbow line array speakers with flown W8LS subs.
Read More »PORTLAND, OREGON — Horne Audio, Inc. used a combination of compact Electro-Voice line arrays to keep sound focused and sight lines open at the recent Oregon Jamboree country music festival.
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Meridian, MS — The SP FH folded-horn subwoofer from Peavey is engineered with a 3200-watt peak power output, and is designed for low frequency sound reinforcement applications.
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LAKEWOOD, NJ — Neutrik, designer and manufacturer of the XX series XLR cable connector, recently provided an assortment of its products to the audio department of the New England Institute of Art (NEIA). The products will be used to create a cables and connectors reference board for the school’s electronics and maintenance lab, which is used by over 500 students in both the associates and bachelors programs.
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Albany, N.Y. — For nearly six decades, the city of Albany has marked the arrival of spring with the annual Tulip Festival, a three-day gala in historic Washington Park. Aside from more than 200,000 namesake flowers in myriad colors and varieties, the annual event features multiple stages with live entertainment on the first two days.
Read More »BUDAPEST, HUNGARY — An Allen & Heath iLive system was recently used to manage FOH and monitor sound for the Jekyll & Hyde musical, staged for two nights in Budapest's 3,000-capacity open-air theatre, the Margitsziget.
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GAINESVILLE, GA — Danley Sound Labs is happy to announce the creation of a national sales manager position and the recruitment of pro audio veteran Joel Moak to fill it. Moak will take on many of the national sales duties that had previously been distributed among Danley's existing staff. In addition, Moak will travel extensively to demo the Danley line.
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Who: Neutrik USA, Inc.
What: Neutrik is a provider of professional entertainment connector systems. The products includes XLR connectors, plugs, jacks, speaker-connectors, data-connectors, patch-panels, power-connectors, BNC connectors and special connectors for industrial applications. From rock bands to lighting design, industrial equipment to broadcast studios, Neutrik provides connectivity solutions for almost any industry.
Where: Lakewood, New Jersey (USA HQ).
When: Founded in 1987.
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What to do before you reach for the EQ
As usual, I enjoyed reading Mark Amundson’s May 2007 FOH “Theory and Practice” article about the EQ strip. The article was well written and informative.
However, the subject matter really cried out for a prequel article. An EQ is, in a cosmic way, a distortion device. It distorts the harmonic order of a sig-nal. Also, on analog EQs, the circuits use phase shifting in their designs — coloring sound by smearing, so to speak. Many engineers hear something they don’t like and immediately reach for the EQ knob as a cure-all — sometimes with good results, sometimes they get frustrated. There are other solutions…
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New union regs and electrical shock make strange bedfellows.
If you have been in this industry for a while, you know that credentials for doing safe power distribution tie-ins have been given the wink-wink, nudge-nudge by most production staff. While you should be holding an electrician’s license or better, a free pass has been implicitly given to those individuals who look like they know what they are doing. But I bet if you surveyed a large sample of local and regional sound companies, hardly anyone on staff is a licensed electrician; however, about half the crew has done unlicensed power distro tie-ins.
Read More »Trade show trends point the way to audio convergence.
Usually, right around the middle of day three of most trade shows, someone will bring up the idea of making such shows into virtual enter-prises, with products and services up on the Internet for all to see after attendees validate their online registrations. Day three often finds plenty of minds and feet receptive to the idea of going virtual — even the inevitable post-show soirées could be handled by creating a virtual Michael Todd Room at one of the MySpace-like social networking sites. The huge amounts of money saved on airfares, hotel rooms and booths could be put into R&D and salary increases.
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