MORRISTOWN, TN – All Pro Sound updated the classroom-style paging system at the recreation facility at Manley Baptist Church, which was not up to the needs for the facility, now used for everything from basketball games and indoor soccer to dinner theater and shows.
Read More »VENTURA, CA – Powersoft has announced the formation of a new U.S. corporate structure and a move to an expanded facility in California. The new corporation, Powersoft Audio Technologies Corp., will make its home in an expanded 1,600-square-foot facility that will serve as the national sales, service and support center for Powersoft products.
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LOS ANGELES – Tim L. Nesbitt, known by many through the role he played as director of Southern California operations for West Coast Sound & Light (WCSL), passed away Jan. 6, 2011. He was 55, and leaves behind a wife, Margret.
Read More »ALAMEDA, CA – HME, which recently announced its acquisition of Clear-Com, has reported that HME's existing Pro Audio Division, including its professional wireless intercom products, sales and technical staff, distribution network and marketing activities, has officially become part of Clear-Com.
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NEW YORK – The crowds at Rockefeller Plaza Nov. 30 were dazzled by the sight of some 30,000 LED lights on the 74-foot-high holiday tree, but the annual 2010 lighting ceremony didn't belong to lampies alone.
Read More »I got an interesting e-mail last month. Took me a while to answer. Came from a kid in a to-remain-unnamed European country working to make a rep for himself as a live audio engineer and service provider. Nice kid. We have corresponded a few times over several years. (All via ProAudioSpace, BTW. If you are still not on it, you are very much missing out on some good stuff.)
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The holiday season has enough stresses on its own without adding a two-week, 12-show tour with longtime music superstars Vince Gill and Amy Grant. But Hugh Johnson, 21-year FOH engineer and production manager for Gill, takes it in stride, delivering excellence through consistency with a dedicated production team giving their best each day.
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When the time came to design its new worship facility, church management for White Oak Worship Center (formerly known as Full Gospel Fellowship Church of Danville, VA) knew that a well-implemented audio-visual system could do wonders toward making services more relevant.
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An admission. When I put the wheels in motion to cover Alice in Chains on their stop in Vegas, my motives were less-than-transparent. Truth is, FOH photographer and production manager Linda Evans (who also happens to be my wife) had some really great shots of the band that she took at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, and I really wanted to be able to use them.
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The Audix FP7 Fusion Series drum mic package is a complete mid-level package designed for both studio and stage use that offers working drummers and small soundcos a worthy solution to all their drum and percussion miking needs.
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Editor's Note: Steve submitted this as his regular "On the Digital Edge" column for the January issue of FOH but, as it is a pretty extensive look at the nuts and bolts of a much-used software program, we are running it as a Road Test instead. Same stuff, different header.
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I was working in the Midwest as a sound guy for a local bar band. We were playing at a bar that had a switch installed onstage so the band could turn the jukebox off and on before and after each set. The band was just about ready to kick into the first song of the night when I realized that although the room was quiet, it was because the jukebox was between songs and that nobody on stage had hit the switch.
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