Housing preset tunings designed to optimize the performance of QSC loudspeakers, the new SC28 System Controller facilitates quick and easy system setup. A two input, eight output DSP device, the controller additionally offers user-adjustable EQ and delay.
Read More »FRANKFURT, GERMANY – As well as exhibiting a raft of new products on Stand 8.0 A42, Turbosound will be demonstrating its Aspect series of arrayable point-source loudspeakers at the prolight+sound Live Sound Forum from March 12 through March 15.
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NEW YORK – Multi-platinum recording artist and three-time Grammy Award winner Seal autographed three Sennheiser evolution e 935 Platinum vocal microphones for a charity auction at the 4th Annual Musicians On Call benefit concert and auction. The event culminated at the Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square with a headlining performance by Seal.
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BRISTOL, PA – Singer, actress superstar, Miley Cyrus performs on her sold out "The Best of Both Worlds" tour with Future Sonics Ear Monitors brand personal monitors and supporting the company's new "BIGGER SOUND @ lower volume" campaign to help educate audiences about the importance of proper listening for the "iPod Generation."
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BERLIN – Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall (Berlin Philharmonie) is one of the city’s cultural icons. Its unique, pentagonally shaped Great Hall, with its center stage, has been praised for its intimate ambience and stellar acoustics. To meet the audio requirements for this world-class venue, a Meyer Sound system was chosen for the task.
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Well, we have officially reached the point where everyone THINKS they need a line array, whether it is appropriate to the venue or not. That being said, the ability to control dispersion can make a small array perfect for house of worship applications. The problem comes in when the church wants a line array, and it actually is the right choice, but they want something small and inconspicuous. Which is where “subcompacts” come into the picture.
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I get a call the other day from a local production company that I’ve been doing work for lately. They say they need me as an opt-out at this synagogue for two days and that it’s “the lowest level mixing gig” they’ve got. I’m like, “sure, why not?” — they're paying my rate, and I've got nothing planned those two days, anyway.
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BUSINESS
Who: Founders/Owners: Linda Arink (“she”) and Dennis Bohn (“he”).
What: An audio tools manufacturer.
Where: Mukilteo, WA
(20 miles north of Seattle).
When founded: 1981.
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Audio distortion is one of those topics that has been so perjured in the last couple decades that most engineers have either ignored the specifications on their equipment or just had their eyes glaze over as they were given the data. The real question is how much distortion is too much? And the second question is, does a much lower distortion specification really justify the extra cost or other performance compromises such as power efficiency or power output?
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Training HOW Staff in the Basic Tenets of Good Sound — And Make a Profit Doing It
A few months back, I wrote a Sound Sanctuary article titled “Training The Faithful.” I mostly discussed working with and teaching all those nice house-of-worship volunteers how to take over mixing duties after I did an install or updated a church sound system. Unfortunately, I have failed miserably in my efforts to turn everyday, well-meaning and good-hearted churchgoing volunteers into respectable sound technicians. Not only have I failed personally, but the worship sound install industry is failing in general.
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It is not often that Dynacord comes out with a new high-end audio power amplifier, but when it happens, it is usually a real technological marvel. The PowerH 2500 and 5000 power amplifiers are designed by the same German engineering team that produced the legendary L 2400 (P3000) concert sound amplifier. For over 60 years, amplifiers from that location have proven to be the finest and most reliable components one could possibly find.
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So, unless you have been living under a rock somewhere, you know about the Dolby Lake Processor — at least you know it exists. Quick review: The Dolby Lake grew out of a unit called the Lake Contour, also known in a modified form as the Clair I/O. It was the first speaker processor to offer the ability to run using a wireless tablet computer so you could make adjustments from anywhere in the room. It won a ton of awards and eve-rybody wanted one. Sidenote: The development was led by legendary audio designer Bruce Jackson — and Bruce does not make stuff that sucks.
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