It’s All About the Position, Baby
Last month, we looked at a variety of location options for your house of worship mixing console. This month, we will investigate the all-important location and positioning of your FOH speakers.
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Finding the Soul of the Mix
As audio engineers, we spend hours of our time learning and mastering the technical aspects of how to create the perfect mix. We seek out and apply new technologies to enhance the sound in any given space as we experiment with innovative techniques of taking sound where it often does not belong.
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QSC CMX Series Amplifiers
QSC changed the R in RMX to a C for "contractor" and debuted the CMX series of amps. The CMX Series is available in four models: the CMX 300V, CMX 500V and CMX 800V, housed in a 2RU chassis design; and the CMX2000V, housed in a 3RU chassis design; with power ranges from 185 watts to 2500 watts per channel.
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Aubion x.8 8-channel A/D-D/A converter
Renkus-Heinz is distributing the new Aubion x.8 8-channel A/D-D/A converter from Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG), developed by AFMG and German hardware designers DSpecialists. The Aubion x.8 is designed to complement AFMG's EASERA and SysTune.
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Norwest Productions Uses EAW KF740 Line Array for Playground Weekender Music Festival
WISEMANS FERRY, Australia – Norwest Productions deployed EAW KF740 line arrays for one of the six main stages at the Playground Weekender music festival, where artists including Bjorn Again and Orbital, among others, performed. Norwest chose the EAW gear for its combination of sound quality, accuracy and ease of rigging.
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Ellie Goulding Tours Europe with iLive
LONDON – Ellie Goulding is touring the European festival circuit with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 compact Control Surface managing monitors. Monitor engineer Steve Pattison uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check and move around the venue during the show.
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For Royal Wedding in Sweden, Electrosound Used Innovason Eclipse
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Electrosound handled all the sound production for the main stage and sound distribution for the TV-4 OB truck during the June wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden with longtime partner Daniel Westling.
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Simply Red Farewell Tour Says Hello to Midas XL8
Graham Blake with the Midas XL8
NEWBURY, U.K. – Graham Blake, monitor engineer for Simply Red's worldwide farewell tour, is using the Midas XL8 live performance system. The tour provided Blake, who had completed the training with Midas' brand development manager Richard Ferriday some eight months earlier, with an opportunity to use the XL8 on the road for the first time.
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Church Makeover Upgrades “Flow” at First Assembly of God
MANHATTAN, KS – First Assembly of God Church recently renovated their sanctuary with design and installation services provided by MSM Systems (Lawrence, KS). The church makeover included complete audio, video, lighting and acoustic systems.
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Alcons ACO Speakers Available in 180 RAL Colors
ZWAAG, The Netherlands – Alcons Audio announced that its Architect Colour Option (ACO) loudspeaker systems can be ordered in more than 180 different RAL colours, the standard European architectural color matching system.
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NEW YORK – Rob "Wacko" Hunter, who has served as Branford Marsalis' recording and live sound engineer since the mid 1990s, has been using a variety of Earthworks microphones for the artist's live and recorded performances.
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Addams Family on Broadway Using DiGiCo SD7T
NEW YORK – It may not be as creepy or as kooky as a pet giant squid named Beatrice, but the Broadway musical adaptation of The Addams Family, which opened this year at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, includes a DiGiCo SD7T console, part of the audio system and sound design from Acme Sound Partners.
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