BERLIN, DE – AFMG, makers of EASE, EASERA and SysTune, named Thilo Schuetz director of press, marketing and sales. Schuetz will oversee the company's plan to become the sole distributor for all of its own software packages, extending an initiative launched in German-speaking countries in January to markets worldwide.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – The NSCA Education Foundation has elected Robert Grubb, North America manager for Bose Professional Systems, to its board of directors. Grubb replaces Mitch Nollman, who previously represented Bose on the Foundation's Board.
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LONDON – London Audio provided a new sound reinforcement system comprised of 15 custom-painted 100V constant-voltage EDGE25PW at the historic Painted Hall in King William Court at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
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MIAMI GARDENS, FL – Founder-owner Harold Cummings and his company, Drummer Boy Productions, recently provided a Martin Audio system for a concert led by Gospel artist Fred Hammond at the Jesus People Ministries Church. The supporting musicians included a keyboard player, a drummer, bass, guitar and percussion players and three background singers.
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VERONA, Italy – The Verona Opera Festival, which has been performing at a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre since 1913, has never used any sound reinforcement.
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D.A.S. Audio's Road 12A and the Road 15A are low-profile 12-inch and 15-inch two-way powered stage monitors with neodymium magnet assemblies for the loudspeaker drivers, the new M-75N neodymium compression driver, a pure titanium diaphragm featuring a 75mm copper-clad, aluminum flat-wire voice coil and a copper shorting ring surrounding the pole piece for each motor system. The driver is attached to a new 40ºH x 60ºV horn.
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SYDNEY, Australia – A public memorial for Bruce Jackson will be held at the concert hall at the Sydney Opera House on Feb. 25, starting at 10 a.m. Jackson, who is credited with numerous live sound innovations and was a sought-after engineer who worked with Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, among others, died after the single-engine plane he was soloing crashed in Death Valley National Park in southern California on Jan. 29. He was 62.
Read More »ARLINGTON, TX – No one is claiming that the Super Bowl Halftime show featuring The Black Eyed Peas, Slash and Usher was technically flawless. And if the partially-lit "V" shaped stage element marred an otherwise strong visual presentation, the blogosphere really lit up over the broadcast audio quality.
Read More »Okay, before we get started, a warning: this one is scattered. I mean more scattered than usual. With a little luck, it may end up coming around to some kind of point by the time we finish.
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Allen & Heath's iLive Mixpad, an iPad app, connects to an iLive MixRack on a wireless network and provides the essential controls for live mixing, including channel faders and mutes, DCA faders and mutes, image controls, aux sends, channel processing, mic-pre control and full metering.
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Presonus' system is not gonna be on big tours with just 24 channels (for now at least) and 10 auxes, but they really upped the ante in iPad control with this free app that just felt great. Not a compromise we could find. Full control, and it takes full advantage of all of the iPad's capabilities, including seamless multi-touch and the ability to draw in an curve on a graphic EQ. Overview displays channel levels, mutes, panning, EQ curves, and more for multiple channels at once. Click for a closeup view of Fat Channel processing. Navigate between gate, compressor, EQ, etc., with the flick of a fingertip.
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Jerry Krulewicz has wired the last four decades of the live event industry. From his days as a teen working with big bands to Broadway, through Saturday Night Live to a political summit at the threshold of Soviet Union's fall to the Olympics and houses of worship, he's stared down every technical challenge with one simple approach: There must be a better way.
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