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Mid-Market Digital Consoles

Mid-Market Digital Consoles

For a PDF of the Feb. 2009 FOH Buyers Guide. CLICK HERE . 

Mid-line live production digital audio consoles. Remember just a few years ago when such a thing just didn’t exist? You either had $100K+ to spend or you could get toy from an MI mfg and pretend. (Hey, I actually did GIGS with one of those. OK I did ONE gig. One.) 

As prices fell and consoles got smaller and more powerful, about a year ago we did one of our Buyers Guides and put in a price limit of, I think, $60K and set off a firestorm of protest from the folks who didn’t make anything for less than $60K. So this time around we have raised the limit a bit to be a bit more inclusive.

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Korean Church Goes Digital with iLive

SEOUL — The Bethel Independent Church has chosen an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for its ability to cater for a diverse range of events, including services, gospel singing and rock concerts. The iLive system includes an iDR10 MixRack loaded with 48 inputs and 24 outputs and iLive-144 Control Surface with 16 inputs and 8 outputs.

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Proel HPD3000 Power Amplifier

Proel is on of those nice Italian pro-audio companies that creates nice electronics and speakers, but gets very little notice in North America. So when I received a HPD3000 power amplifier for review, I had to hold my skeptic hat in my hands until I could see this quad channel power amplifier in action.

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Helpinstill Piano Sensor

I don’t know what it is with me and my knack for finding the coolest and most obscure devices that actually work. Yes, I am flattering myself a little too much, seeing that this device has been around since the 1970s. The old timers (I’m not saying this as a jab but out of sincere respect for the wealth of knowledge that can only come with being old) are probably saying, “Silly youngster, I’ve been using one of those for years.”

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Open, Close, Open: Noise Gates

In previous issues of FOH, we’ve looked at compressors. Now it’s time to at some of the other outboard gear you have, or should be using, in your house of worship. In this month’s column, let’s take a look at “noise gates.”

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So, Just How Loud IS it?

We at Front Of House Magazine have not harped about the usage of Sound Pressure Level (SPL) meters for a while. But that doesn’t mean the SPL police have stopped lurking around at your gigs. All they may do is give you a polite reminder to turn it down. But in a worst-case scenario you could be facing litigation and fines by violating the rules against excessive noise.

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When Disaster Strikes

A major tour is like a living organism. And like any organism, it will occasionally have accidents. So what happens when the tour stubs its toe, or worse, breaks an arm, just before showtime?

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It All Started in a Garage

There will come a day when business students will learn about 20th century entrepreneurs and the odds are high that every case study they read will start with the phrase, “It all started in a garage.”

The story of Proshow Systems begins 20 years ago in Memphis, Tenn. — in a garage, of course. 

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Panic on the Tarmac

I was traveling home from Europe after six months on a cruise ship, just getting settled on my third flight of the day in Chicago bound for Toronto. There was a line-up to takeoff so we had been sitting on the tarmac for about 20 minutes when I started to fall asleep.

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Museum Ready

Now that my son is a high school varsity wrestler I have the great opportunity to spend most of my weekends inside various gymnasiums and it was on one of these wrestling outings that I found myself in Hamburg Pennsylvania screaming and yelling just like one of the wrestling dads I vowed to never become.

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