Like Me, Know Me, Trust Me, _ _ _ _ _ Me
Okay, before we get started, a warning: this one is scattered. I mean more scattered than usual. With a little luck, it may end up coming around to some kind of point by the time we finish.
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Allen & Heath iLive MixPad
Allen & Heath's iLive Mixpad, an iPad app, connects to an iLive MixRack on a wireless network and provides the essential controls for live mixing, including channel faders and mutes, DCA faders and mutes, image controls, aux sends, channel processing, mic-pre control and full metering.
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Presonus StudioLive Remote for iPad
Presonus' system is not gonna be on big tours with just 24 channels (for now at least) and 10 auxes, but they really upped the ante in iPad control with this free app that just felt great. Not a compromise we could find. Full control, and it takes full advantage of all of the iPad's capabilities, including seamless multi-touch and the ability to draw in an curve on a graphic EQ. Overview displays channel levels, mutes, panning, EQ curves, and more for multiple channels at once. Click for a closeup view of Fat Channel processing. Navigate between gate, compressor, EQ, etc., with the flick of a fingertip.
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Jerry Krulewicz – A Wired Life
Jerry Krulewicz has wired the last four decades of the live event industry. From his days as a teen working with big bands to Broadway, through Saturday Night Live to a political summit at the threshold of Soviet Union's fall to the Olympics and houses of worship, he's stared down every technical challenge with one simple approach: There must be a better way.
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Trinity Take Three
After construction is complete, volunteers will play a big role in moving the gear from the gym to the new sanctuary.
The Feb. 2004 issue of FOH had an article that featured Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church in Augusta, GA. The church had just hired a new Minister of Music and installed a sound system that was state-of-the-art (in 2004). That sound system functioned flawlessly for six years, but it's being retired and replaced as part of a major renovation called the Nehemiah Project.
Read More »Recording the Gig
Have you ever promised to take on a task that you thought would be easy and simple only to find – after the promise has… Read More »Recording the Gig
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Crown XLS DriveCore 2500 Amp
In this day and age, we all want more for less. Whether it's your car, phone, computer, TV, or even a Smart Amplifier. We all want it to do more, weigh less, and have the cost cut in half. I say good luck. Every time something new comes out, it cost more for that one feature that I can't live without. But, dammit, I'm not going to sleep tonight until I've stood in a line that nearly traverses the earth and purchased my new whatchamacallit.
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Shure Beta 27
Microphones may just be my favorite pieces of gear to review (insert sarcasm here). I actually find a microphone review to be one of the hardest to do, because just about everything to do with a mic is matter of opinion. And my opinion may or may not differ from everyone else's. But in the case of this review, mine will be the only one that matters!
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Waves C6 Multiband Compressor
The Dynamic Line (orange) indicates instantaneous changes in frequency response.
Calling the Waves C6 a "compressor" is like calling Ben & Jerry's Phish Food "chocolate ice cream." It really doesn't complete the description. Users of Waves' C4 Multiband Compressor will find the C6 familiar, but the C6 adds two "floating" bands (details below) as well as a sidechain input. Combining this with the C6's ability to perform dynamic EQ results in an incredibly flexible and powerful dynamics tool that does way more than just "compression."
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K.C.’s Harvest Productions: A Heartland Success Story
Harvest Productions of Kansas City got its start in 1987, incorporated in 1992, and in the nearly two decades since has grown to be one of the most successful and dependable sound/lighting/video companies in their corner of the Midwest. Harvest's founder and president, Ron Davis, is a Kansas City native himself, and likes that his company's name reflects the agrarian roots of the region in which it thrives. "And," he points out, "the company is always growing."
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An Unintended Vow of Silence
I was doing sound for a Hare Krishna event. I had the usual surprise instruments show up for several of the acts – but that's no surprise to me anymore. Anyhow, there was a bit where this guy was doing a long speech on a hand-held wireless. This seemed like the opportune moment for me to grab a bite to eat.
Read More »Just When You Thought You Were Safe…
Live music, the putative savior of the music industry, took a hit in 2010, and that has serious implications for live sound systems providers and operators. According to Pollstar's end-of-year report, concert touring revenues declined steeply last year: ticket sales for the 50 biggest grossing tours globally fell 12 percent, to $2.93 billion, from $3.34 billion in 2009. In the U.S., the world's single biggest music market, the drop-off was even larger, with concerts here reporting a 15 percent decline to $1.69 billion. And those same top 50 acts played 8 percent fewer shows in 2010, says Pollstar.
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