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MSM Systems Creates a Concert-Friendly Church

MSM Systems Creates a Concert-Friendly Church

La Fe en Jesucristo Church Embraces the Music

With an energetic congregation and 10-piece band, the La Fe en Jesucristo Church attracts international attention. Despite its location in a small Hispanic neighborhood of Kansas City, Kan., well-known Hispanic Christian bands regularly visit the church to perform during worship services. When the church moved into a larger facility (the church consolidated its worship facility from a previous two locations to one), Church Trustee Noe Aguilar wanted a state-of-the-art sound system to accommodate the array of culturally diverse music, which includes everything from heavy metal and rock to soulful tenors and traditional hymns. “We didn’t have the space and we didn’t have the sound system,” says Aguilar. “We had to rent auditorium space and equipment to accommodate the different styles of music. This time around, we wanted a concert-friendly church.”

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Bringing the Salt Lake Tabernacle Into the 21st Century

The two-year renovation involved mixing modernization and preservation

Certainly any kind of installation work demands a high attention to detail, and everyone from architect to designer to installer to end user needs to be on the same page. The team that worked on the two-year renovation of the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, took that pressure, doubled it and then doubled it again.

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Dennis Mortson and Tony Cianciotto

Dennis Mortson

FOH Mixer/Tour Manager
Freelance
London, Canada
519.670.1969
[email protected]
www.myspace.com/micmixer
    
Service Provided: FOH, monitor mixing, tour management
    
Clients: Evans Blue, Alannah Myles, Bowfire, The Trews
    
Quote: “What’s the budget?”  
    
Personal Info: Going on 20 years in the sound reinforcement industry.

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A Culture of Cheating?

Audio, music, baseball (New York Yankees) and girls are pretty much all I think about and not necessarily in that order. Well, not really girls since I’m married, but something like it. Believe me, I’m not trying to imply that I’m shallow…OK, I’m a superficial scum, so sue me, but they do all go together, although maybe not in this article. So, just for expediency, if I forget about the girls, it leaves audio, music and baseball. That brings to mind the steroid scandal of 2007, and boy does that upset me! Not because of the obvious reasons, such as drug use or that George Mitchell is the director of the Boston Red Sox and not one Red Sox player was named in his report. Nope. The cause of my distress is that the steroid scandal makes me think of politics, technology and ethics, and that gets in the way of my important thoughts about audio, music, baseball and girls (or in my case, my wife). 

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What Have YOU DONE To CHANGE Someone’s Life Lately?

Don’t know why really, but the coverage in this issue of the recent Led Zeppelin show caused a bit of an “I remember when” kind of nostalgia among most everyone I talked to about it. Love ‘em (me) or hate ‘em (my wife), you could not ignore them. Yes, they were horrendous live at times, but just like the generation of rockers who came up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and point to seeing Elvis or The Beatles as their “I wanna play guitar” moment, an awful lot of next-generation players point to Zep as their reason for doing what they do. 

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

One of the issues that sound engineers deal with on a daily basis is that of hearing conservation. In the United States, advocates for employee safety such as OSHA  (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, have set very specific guidelines for avoiding hearing loss due to exposure to loud noise. And let’s face it: Many sound engineers work under constant conditions of “loud noise.” Research by such organizations has produced a plethora of data regarding hearing conservation, some of which refer to the amount of time a person can be subjected to loud noise without damaging their hearing.

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Something Festive in the Air

It used to be that if you wanted a good ol’ roll-in-the-mud with music over a long weekend, you needed to catch a flight to Europe. America, the country that brought you Woodstock and Farm Aid, quickly ceded the title of home of the multi-day music festival to the Old Country.

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Babysitting the Band

Ken
Hey Brian, one of my steady clients is developing a young act that has some potential.  Problem is, their backing tracks are bad and they don’t know how to use the wireless gear they have purchased or borrowed from me. I get at least one call each day when they are rehearsing to talk them through some fairly basic function. How much do I educate my clients and hold their hands for free? Bear in mind that they are always nice and appreciative.

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Dynacord DSP 260

Dynacord presents the DSP 260 digital 2-in-6 sound system manager. Based on the most modern hardware, the DSP 260 offers both tried-and-tested and new algorithms for the swift and simple construction of active multi-way systems. The DSP 260 was designed with an emphasis on user-friendliness.

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Superstar III Television Series Takes Center Stage with JBL

BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA – Demonstrating the far-reaching, worldwide adoption of JBL VerTec line arrays for high-profile staging events, Amex Audio recently provided the live sound reinforcement system for the televised broadcast of “Superstar III.” The third season of Slovakia’s popular live music television series, the show is similar in format to “American Idol” in the United States.

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The Ritz Dances to a Disco Beat on Broadway with Meyer Sound

NEW YORK – When The Ritz returned to Broadway after a 30-year hiatus, the farcical romp vibrated to the 70’s disco beat at Studio 54, once a hot spot for disco-era nightlife in New York City. The historic theatre-turned-nightclub was reconverted to a performance venue by Roundabout Theatre, which recently staged the revival of the 1975 play set in a Manhattan gay bathhouse. Sound designer Tony Meola, who has an extensive list of credits that include Les Misérables and five Wicked productions around the world, created a robust system based on Meyer Sound’s M’elodie ultracompact high power curvilinear array loudspeakers.

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Michigan State University Audio Enthusiasts and Engineers Revolutionize Audio with Neutrik USA

LAKEWOOD, NJ – A student-run, project-oriented organization at Michigan State University (MSU), the Audio Enthusiasts and Engineers (AEE), have jumped full-force into their ongoing project, Revolution Audio. Through donations from Neutrik USA, designer and manufacturer of the XX series XLR cable connector, along with several other manufacturers, the students are able to begin construction on a high-quality turntable, low-noise RIAA phono stage, a hand-built tube microphone, rebuild several power amps, as well as redesign the universal power supply and the preamp.  

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