Digital Wireless Microphones
From AKG, Audio-Technica, Lectrosonics, Line 6, MiPro, Sabine, Shure and Sony.
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Wireless Microphone Update for Unlicensed Users
For the last 22 months, wireless microphones haven’t been allowed to operate in the 700 MHz band (698 – 806 MHz) in the US. Many systems were sold in this spectrum, but are now illegal to resell or operate in the US. This remains news to some wireless users, and illegal 700-band systems can be found in ballrooms, churches and schools, with some continuing to plead ignorance as an excuse.
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Overcoming A New Sanctuary’s Audio Challenges
Hi-Tech Electronics Enhances the Sound at World Overcomers Christian Church
Be more than you have ever been before. Stop being a victim, be a victor. Be an Overcomer!”
That’s the message at Durham, NC-based World Overcomers Christian Church, and it is striking a chord with a growing number of congregants.
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Sennheiser XS Wireless
The Sennheiser XS Wireless comes in five application-specific sets. Two are vocal sets — one with the SKM 35 handheld transmitter featuring Sennheiser’s standard e835 dynamic cardioid capsule; the second, XSW 65, comes with an electret super-cardioid condenser capsule.
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Optogate PB-05 Optical Microphone Signal Gate
Every once in a while, a product comes along that seems so obvious it makes you wonder why someone didn’t invent it a long time before. David Lichterman actually introduced me to the original D3 Optogate at the 1999 Winter NAMM Show. I would like to show you the PB-05.
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Onstage Systems
There are many day-to-day challenges a regional audio company must contend with, but even Hyacinth Belcher couldn’t have imagined police officers storming her office, hands on guns, ready to draw. Co-owner of Dallas-based Onstage Systems with her brother Chris, she laughs about it now, though surely the “raid” got her adrenalin going.
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Renaissance Reverb, Part II
Greetings from Ancona, Italy, located on the beautiful coast of the Adriatic Sea! This latest installment of this column is the twelfth of these reviews describing my experiences with Waves plugins. This year seems to have gone by very rapidly.
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Grammys Make a Big Change
The live-sound mix console business is in play. The number of new desks is on the rise, and digital technology is leveling the landscape for deals. Consider the DiGiCo SD series consoles used at the world’s biggest televised audio party, the Grammy Awards, held Feb. 12 in Staples Center. The crew used a 256-input DiGiCo SD7 console at FOH and two 96-input DiGiCo SD10s at monitors, with a third 96-channel SD10 used for the production mix. These replaced Yamaha PM1D consoles, which had been used on the show for the last nine years.
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Mic Techniques for Lead and Background Vocals
For the vast majority of engineers, lead vocal is the most important part of the mix. Unless you’re dealing with an instrumental group, ensuring that the lead vocal can heard at all times is paramount. Background vocals can be equally important, because the musical interplay between lead and background or harmony vocals often define a musical arrangement. Here are techniques you can use to keep vocals in the spotlight of your mix.
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This month’s discussion is on small-format mixing consoles for houses of worship, both analog and digital.
There are probably a few different definitions for “small format” consoles. To me, any mixer that can fit into a rack would fall into the category.
That said, if your worship house mixer is not in a rack, don’t worry about it. We still have plenty to talk about.
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Navy SEALs of Sound
Here is an open letter to any and all clients that that require audio and production assistance. Please understand that I recognize you, as the client, are most likely spending a huge amount of money on your incredibly important event and also be aware that, as a bronco buster, this is not my first rodeo. After all, if you were going into the hospital for an operation would you tell the surgeon where to cut, or how to stitch? I think not. Therefore, what compels you to dictate to me how to do my job? You own an ipod? You did sound for a friend in college? Please…get over it.
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RG Jones Invests in Martin Audio MLA System
LONDON — After testing Martin Audio’s active Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) on a series of events, UK rental company RG Jones Sound Engineering Ltd has invested in the new system. The company’s 24 MLA top boxes and 12 MLX subs, with six dedicated amplifier and DSP channels per enclosure, will make their debut on a series of shows in April and May.
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