HOLLYWOOD, CA — Hollywood United Methodist Church was built in the 1920s with a Gothic architectural design inspired by Westminster Abbey, and it has served as a backdrop for Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act and hundreds of scenes in other movies. But while it’s withstood all those movie shoots and California’s earthquakes, its sound system was outdated and underpowered.
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MIDDLETON, WI — FDW-Worldwide announced the appointment of Buzz Goodwin to the newly created position of President of FDW-Worldwide. Jonathan and Susan Lipp, owners of FDW-Worldwide, made the announcement.
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IPSWICH, U.K. —Celestion announced a 50 percent increase in sales for its professional audio products. Separately, the company announced the appointment of Miami Parts Imports Inc. as the company’s distributor for Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname, Uruguay and the Caribbean.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Studio at the Palms, located inside the Palms Casino Resort, is using Aderra Inc.’s “Live in a Flash” USB Technology to give visitors immediate live recordings of the events they just saw, all on a USB flash drive. Recorded events will include concerts, conferences, live DJ sets and other happenings.
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Swearing In Ceremony
Talk with MSI on handling the swearing in ceremony were ongoing throughout the year, but the contract wasn’t finalized until the end of November, says Robert Goldstein, president of Maryland Sound International (MSI). The physical install started January 2.
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When I walked into the arena in Ontario, Calif. to hook up with the team of Big Mick Hughes and Paul Owen (both of whom have been working with Metallica longer than some of the younger crew members have even been alive).
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James Elizondo has been a member and staffer at the Las Vegas International Church for eight years now. Over the years, he has seen four different PAs go up, including the recently completed move from D.A.S. Aero 48s to a hang that includes D.A.S. Aero 28as, Variant 25as and ST 215 subs.
The latest system is quite an upgrade from the first PA he found when originally attending services. “It was homemade from a guy in Reno,” Elizondo starts. “He specialized in car audio and he made something like I’ve never seen before, it was the most gigantic looking contraption of a speaker you’ve ever seen."
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Ahhhh. Salt Lake in late November. Just cold enough to be miserable but without all that crisp white snow to create a beautiful scene to distract you from the fact that you are freezing your ass off. I’m not a Coldplay fan (are there any young bands out thee who actually write HOOKS anymore?) but there was something going one here that made it worth the eight-hour drive—besides the fact they are my daughter’s favorite band and it was her birthday.
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For a PDF of the Feb. 2009 FOH Buyers Guide. CLICK HERE .
Mid-line live production digital audio consoles. Remember just a few years ago when such a thing just didn’t exist? You either had $100K+ to spend or you could get toy from an MI mfg and pretend. (Hey, I actually did GIGS with one of those. OK I did ONE gig. One.)
As prices fell and consoles got smaller and more powerful, about a year ago we did one of our Buyers Guides and put in a price limit of, I think, $60K and set off a firestorm of protest from the folks who didn’t make anything for less than $60K. So this time around we have raised the limit a bit to be a bit more inclusive.
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SEOUL — The Bethel Independent Church has chosen an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for its ability to cater for a diverse range of events, including services, gospel singing and rock concerts. The iLive system includes an iDR10 MixRack loaded with 48 inputs and 24 outputs and iLive-144 Control Surface with 16 inputs and 8 outputs.
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Proel is on of those nice Italian pro-audio companies that creates nice electronics and speakers, but gets very little notice in North America. So when I received a HPD3000 power amplifier for review, I had to hold my skeptic hat in my hands until I could see this quad channel power amplifier in action.
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I don’t know what it is with me and my knack for finding the coolest and most obscure devices that actually work. Yes, I am flattering myself a little too much, seeing that this device has been around since the 1970s. The old timers (I’m not saying this as a jab but out of sincere respect for the wealth of knowledge that can only come with being old) are probably saying, “Silly youngster, I’ve been using one of those for years.”
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