Jeffrey “Jj” Hillman has a tough job. He mixes audio for a show full of stunning hotties who just happen to spend much of the show topless. Sounds cool, right? But it is not what it appears. “I just came off a 60 hour week,” he says. “Nice paycheck but…” That “not what it appears” applies to pretty much everything about this show.
Read More »For a PDF of the July 2009 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE . Your intrepid FOH’ers have covered personal monitors (also known as “speakers in your… Read More »Wireless Personal Monitor Systems
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You hear many great things when you get the call to work on a brand new installation. When Lee Dennison, project manager at Delta Sound in Surrey, U.K. picked up the phone, though, he did not hear many great things. First, the client let him know the space he’d be working in was in the middle of a 43-acre site, that it was in a shopping center and that the location’s construction called for glass ceilings and marble floors. Oh, and there was no time or inclination to add any kind of aural treatments to the space.
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If you saw the June issue of FOH you may remember that we did a Buyers Guide looking at some of the “pre-packed” drum mic kits available out there. The bias against these kind of kits has been that they are just a way to package mediocre mics and that they weren’t really for pros. If that is your thinking you have not used the Earthworks Kits.
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I really do not know where this old rule came from, but many old sound persons used to budget a “number” of watts per persons in the audience as a way to size a sound system. Now this could be useful if the rig offered is fixed in size and dispersion so that multiple rigs splayed together could get close to a “watts per person” criteria. But imagine a 2-watt per head system in an outdoor festival gig with ground stack speakers.
Read More »Last month, we discussed audio software plug-ins. To refresh your memory, we observed the fact that audio processing is rapidly moving from hardware to software. Just about every digital mixing console currently manufactured includes a plethora of onboard processing such as EQ, dynamics, reverb and delay.
Read More »As I start this month’s installment of Sound Sanctuary, I need to remind you that this is actually part 2 of “The Sound of Your Worship Room.” So of you haven’t read part 1, please pull out the June edition of FOH or go online and read it at www.fohonline.com in the Current Issue section. If you don’t, the information in part 2 won’t be quite as useful.
Read More »I’m not sure if it’s the recession or just that time of year when all the schools let out, but I have recently been inundated with a boatload of resumes from out of work audio engineers and technical personnel.
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NILES, IL — Shure Inc.’s X2u XLR-to-USB Signal Adapter is now shipping and is available by itself or in bundles with either the SM57 or SM58 microphones.
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SAN DIMAS, CA — Christ’s Church of the Valley has grown to the point where a switch to digital audio became a practical necessity. The church has multiple locations, six weekend services and a broadcast component that includes live streaming and re-broadcast in New Zealand and Australia.
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ASHLAND, KY — Newtech Systems has been busy upgrading sound systems for schools, churches and community theaters in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and Newtech’s Bill Banfield has relied upon EAW gear supplied by North Coast Marketing (Erie, Penn.) for a diverse array of projects.
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EASTON, MD — After opening with silent films and vaudeville acts in the 1920s, the 400-seat Avalon Theatre on Maryland’s Eastern Shore went into a period of decline before being purchased and refurbished by the town of Easton. It is now equipped with a sound system featuring Bag End speakers and processors.
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