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Hometown Heroes 2009

Hometown Heroes 2009

The votes were tallied, and some were close, some not so much … but the readers of FOH have chosen the best regional pro audio companies in North America. There are new faces and repeat “offenders.” One has been at it a little more then three years, another is celebrating a 30th anniversary. All have a passion for audio, an inimitable story, and a dedication to their clients so powerful that their peers — including competitors — were compelled to take time to nominate them and vote for them as best in their region.

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Five Countries in South America over Three Weeks…How Hard Could That Be?

I’m a 20+ year employee of Clair Global working for a popular Cuban born Miami resident and her 15 piece band as A2. (I’ll leave out her name to avoid litigation, but you can probably guess). We brought some gear with us (Board groups, etc), and got some locally (stacks and racks). We also carried a 45k.v.a. Transformer to interface with local 220 volt power (mostly generators).

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Turn It Down

An Alternate Look at the Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient PM System

In the December 2007 issue of FOH magazine, Bill Evans presented a review of the Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient Personal Monitor System (www.sensaphonics.com). For the complete nuts and bolts of the system you can refer to that review, but this month in On the Digital Edge we’re going to revisit Sensaphonics’ technology from a slightly different perspective. 

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The Live Sound Coda for “This is It”

When Bill Sheppell flew home to Ohio in mid-June, he was looking for a little R&R before undertaking what was to have been the gig of the year, if not the decade, as FOH mixer for Michael Jackson’s 50-night This Is It stand at London’s O2 arena, likely to be followed up by a world tour with the same massive stage and troupe.

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Console Fidelity

A lot of commentary I have heard is that many modern consoles do not have the warmth or fidelity that classic analog circuitry consoles do have. Yeah, many of these consoles are digital and the flexibility in the digital realm is hard to argue for the money invested. But are there tricks and techniques that we can employ to warm up these cold sounding consoles?

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There are No Guarantees in Life

Despite all of our expertise and experience, we live in a world where entropy appears to be the norm and there is no real assurance that our endeavors will lead to success.  Without bloviating or waxing poetic regarding our collective attempts to manipulate and control chaos, Murphy’s Law simply states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”

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Parnelli Award Nominations Close Friday, Sept. 11

LAS VEGAS  — Nominations are being accepted online to honor those individuals and companies for exceptional work in the pro audio field, and this window of opportunity will be closing Friday, Sept. 11 at 5 p.m. PST, so go to www.parnelliawards.com and click on the Parnelli Awards nomination link today.

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Atlantida Festival Controlled with Soundcraft Vi6

Luiz Gonzaga, Lugphil Audio owner

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Brazilian radio station Atlantida FM recently hosted the indoor Atlantida Festival, a 12-hour live music event held at the Fiergs Exposition Center in Porto Alegre, with performances by Claus and Vanessa, Strike, NX Zero, Capital Inicial and Charlie Brown Jr., Lugphil Audio provided the live audio reinforcement system, which included a Soundcraft Vi6 console.

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