Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Help Keep the South Point Showroom Rocking
They may be named after New Mexico’s capital, but since 1975, Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns have been based in Las Vegas (Nevada, not New Mexico).
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Heil Sound, known worldwide as a manufacturer of high-performance, dynamic microphones, is marking 2016 as “50 Years of Maximum Rock & Roll” with a year-long celebration. Certainly, his popular microphones for studio, live sound and radio users are part of the continuing success of Heil Sound. However, that represents only a very small part of the audio legend that is Bob Heil.
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Loudspeaker drivers, switch mode power supplies, chain motors, dynamic microphones, throne shakers, disk drives and step-down transformers. What ties these pro audio staples together? The answer is magnetism. Magnetism, magnetic behavior, and magnets are everywhere in professional audio. If one needs to control electricity or drive physical motion using electricity, magnetism is almost always involved.
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The heart of many high-output sound reinforcement speakers is the 2-inch (exit) compression driver. Other versions of compression drivers exist — from half-inch to four-inch… Read More »Two-Inch Neodymium Compression Drivers
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Removing Feedback from Stage Monitors
Just when I thought that club sound systems had evolved past Y2K, I get a gig at a place where the house monitor system is (I’ll be polite here) out-of-date. While the overwhelming trend for stage monitoring has moved heavily toward IEMs (even among local club acts), there are still plenty of performers using wedges. As wedges aren’t going away any time soon, let’s examine the concept of “ringing out” stage monitors.
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It’s an age-old question, and it’s one of the most common questions that I get from audio students. “Do you use VCAs or subgroups? How are they different, and what are they used for?” I usually try to start right off by answering that it’s a false question. VCAs and subgroups (often referred to simply as “groups”) are two totally different tools, and they shouldn’t be compared to one another. For the most part, that’s a true statement, but like anything about audio, the real, in-depth answer is nuanced.
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“Be afraid, be very afraid!” At least that’s the message that I am receiving from all of the six major media broadcasters I have been following — and rightly so. On Nov. 13, 2015 attackers in Paris killed 130 people, including 89 at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan Theatre.
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Sometimes, you just outgrow your name. When it happens, it’s better to embrace it.
The company formerly known as Entertainment Metals, a provider of precision metal and cabling solutions for the professional audio, video, broadcast, theater and install markets announced recently an all-inclusive corporate re-branding initiative starting in 2016.
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How many times can you reinvent the wheel? A direct box may seem like a simple piece of gear — and some are, such as Radial’s acclaimed JDI line of passive direct boxes. But when active processing enters the picture, Radial has been known to break out of that “just a direct box” mold with some creative designs and features that redefine the modern direct box. In fact, Radial seems to do this on a regular basis and improves on it every time. The Mk5, the latest version (and fifth generation) of the company’s popular JDV active direct box, features some interesting and useful innovations that take it well beyond the norm.
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The first multi-track recorder I ever owned was a Tascam DA-88. In subsequent years, I used a lot of Tascam MX2424’s, Alesis HD24’s, and for the last six years or so, I’ve almost exclusively used DAW’s such as Pro Tools and Nuendo for live multi-track recording.
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It was hard trying to catch up with father and son Mario and Carmen Educate to discuss On Stage Audio’s past 30 years — they were both busy working on the next 30. “We stay in this business because we have a passion for it,” Mario says. “Yes the investments get larger, and competition gets tougher, but the main thing is we keep the right people working with us. Our employees have a passion for what we do.”
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