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.
Read More »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.)
Read More »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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Mat Walter
Sound Tech
Horizon Christian Fellowship
Rancho Santa Fe, CAwww.horizon.org
760.846.0350
[email protected]
I just got a call from a friend in New York. He is a systems engineer & shop manager for a medium size sound company there. He and I share a lot of "war story's" so here is one of his……
He just did a 3 day festival, on the third and final night the opener guest engineer blows the high mid's in the P.A. No not just a couple boxes…..ALL OF THEM! As my friend Willy Jay tells me the story, my butt clenches……… The opener shows up with a nice fx rack, a couple EQs and a couple extra compressors for the left/right. Seem's OK right? So Willy Jay figures the guys got some good gear, and has a good rep in the area so doesn't stand over his shoulder as much as he would with someone he doesn't know.
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X5 HANDHELD CONDENSER VOCAL MIC
By Bill Evans
Any of you who have been reading FOH for a while have probably heard me openly refer to myself as a condenser slut when it comes to mics for vocals. I own a bunch of mics and am probably unusual in that I actually own more vocal condensers than dynamics. A condenser just has that “air” and open feel that it is tough to get from a dynamic, and I generally find that the audio quality of the vocals goes up substantially just by replacing dynamics with condensers.
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NIAGRA FALLS, ONTARIO — One of Canada’s leading luxury casino resorts, Fallsview Casino Resort offers a variety of top-tier entertainment every night in its 1,500-seat Avalon Theatre. Recent performers have included Gretchen Wilson, Donna Summer and Lionel Ritchie. To help provide the best sound quality for the theatre’s patrons, and to better accommodate the tour riders of visiting artists and sound engineers, PA Plus Productions of Toronto installed two Midas Heritage 4000 mixing consoles and Klark Teknik EQ and processing systems at the theatre.
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VIENNA, VA — The Wolf Trap Foundation's Filene Center enhanced its digital audio control capabilities for the 2007 summer season with the installation of three Dolby Lake Processors to manage main front of house left and right, and the lawn and center cluster speakers. In addition, four Dolby Lake Processors have been installed to optimize all 16 monitor feeds, including the mixer's cue.
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LAS VEGAS — FRONT of HOUSE magazine is pleased to announce that Dan Hernandez has joined its staff as National Sales Manager. Hernandez brings more than 20 years of pro audio advertising sales experience to his new position at FOH, including stints at Live Sound Int’l, Church Sound, EQ, Mix, Pro Sound News and Systems Contractor News. Hernandez will be in charge of advertising sales for FRONT of HOUSE magazine across all its outlets as well as audio sales for sister publication Stage Directions.
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And gets on the road to success. . .
A country singer, a tour bus and a new town were the ingredients of success for Mike Borne, who arrived in Nashville in 1979 after being hired to handle the FOH responsibilities for country singer T.G. Sheppard. Five years and 13 number one hits later, Borne decided that it was time to start his own company and get off the road. Thus, Allstar Audio Systems Inc. was born.
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Precise Corporate Staging and Alice Cooper team up for a good cause.
Thanks to an ever-widening web of generosity, dozens of underprivileged and underserved segments of the population are being helped in ways that were unimaginable just a decade ago.
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They may have whisper-clean sound, but Celtic Woman’s not a secret anymore.
It might be understandable if you have not yet heard of Celtic Woman, but the “secret” that has enthralled millions of PBS viewers and myriad concertgoers will not be one for much longer. The group’s debut was the #1 album on Billboard’s World Music chart for 68 weeks, only to be bumped off by their Christmas album, then that release was knocked from the top slot by the group’s A Woman’s Journey earlier this year. Having notched three successful albums (including a recent Top 10 rock/pop entry) through massive public television exposure, the Irish folk/pop project offering both covers and originals has beguiled audiences with a quartet of pretty voices, a vigorous violinist, pulse-racing percussion and a smooth mixture of energetic and ethereal moments. Currently wrapping up a 100-plus show tour, Celtic Woman is becoming one of the biggest (yet quietest) pop sensations around.
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