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Sensaphonics Launches Ask the Sound Guy Featuring Thom Fiegle

Sensaphonics Launches Ask the Sound Guy Featuring Thom Fiegle

CHICAGO — Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation Inc., a manufacturer of custom-fit earphones for personal monitoring, has announced the hiring of industry veteran Thom Fiegle as Sound Engineering Consultant. Fiegle’s primary responsibility will be to offer expert advice to artists and engineers seeking to optimize their personal monitor experience. The new service, dubbed “Ask The Sound Guy,” is designed to augment Sensaphonics’ audiology expertise with Fiegle’s long experience in system design and live sound mixing. 

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Historic Paramount Theatre Sounds New with EAW

ABILENE, TX — The Paramount Theatre in downtown Abilene, Tex., a monument to an earlier time of movie palaces and vaudeville performance, now offers a new sound reinforcement system highlighted by EAW KF730 compact line arrays as well as JF50S two-way loudspeakers and SM200iH stage monitors and designed and installed by Gemini Sound of Dallas. 

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Bob Heil to Receive 2007 Parnelli Audio Innovator Award

LAS VEGAS—The Parnelli Awards Board of Directors announce that Bob Heil, one of pro sound’s most prolific inventors, will be honored with the Parnelli Innovator Award at this year’s Parnelli Awards. The ceremony will be held during the LDI show in Orlando, Fla., at a lavish event staged at the Peabody on November 16. 

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QSC PowerLight 3 Series Analog Amplifiers

QSC's new PowerLight 3 Series amplifiers are designed to bring flexibility to touring and installed sound reinforcement applications and offer a choice of DSP with remote control and monitoring via BASIS or straightforward analog input operation. The three models range in size from 2,500 to 8,000 watts. 

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Winning the Bid

And keeping your standards high

Sound Sanctuary is a unique part of FOH, but it shares a common thread with every column, article and review in this book: We all like working in this business of sound (at least I hope we all do). I have made this rather obvious statement because I will be writing about a subject this month that is at the center of every live sound and install company — the process of bidding a job. Particularly, bidding an installation job whether in a house of worship or any other place, for that matter. (I am not going to talk about live sound bids, even though I do bid shows for various worship houses. Because of what I am currently working on, I will stick to install bids.)

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The Pursuit of Loudness

You can’t just look at the measurements —You gotta know what they mean.

It feels like my perpetual task in life is to get up on my soapbox and dispel myths and tell the truth about getting righteous sound pressure levels to the audience. What I want to do is weave the story of speaker-cabinet dispersion, power handling and sensitivity and attempt to explain why certain “grades” of speaker are pitched to various sound persons at different levels of the business.

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