VERONA, Italy — Two DiGiCo SD7 consoles played a key role at a unique event recently staged in Verona’s famous Arena. Although renowned for summer seasons that attract opera fans from all over the world, the ancient Roman walls hosted a run of seven concerts by Italian rocker Luciano Ligabue, his band and a full symphony orchestra.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF), one of the city's newer performing arts venues, recently upgraded its sound system with the installation of an L-ACOUSTICS ARCS and dV-SUB loudspeaker setup.
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Who: Brock Adamson, president, CEO and head designer of Adamson Systems Engineering.
What: “What do you think?”
When: Founded in 1983.
Fulltime employees: 55.
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James Welsh
Owner, Engineer
Welsh Sound
Kearneysville, WV
www.welshsound.com
304-676-3208
[email protected]
Services Provided: Full production services — sound, lighting, live multitrack recording, staging and rigging.
Clients: Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys, The Demon Beat, Seventh Seal, The Fox Hunt, Seldom Scene, Los Pleneros de la 21, Viento de Agua
Quote: “Friends don’t let friends wrap cables!”
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A couple of Decembers ago, I remember loading in for a club gig. The club manager was not happy with the necessary evil of loading in the production gear through a side door, not because of the choice of entrance, but because it took a half hour to complete the task.
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The dbx brand now offers the dB10 passive direct box and the dBb12 active direct box. While not compact at 5.82” x 5.44” x 2.20,” the direct boxes are similar in size to the higher quality direct box offerings and are fully featured for the variety of needs for both performers and sound people. I give kudos to dbx for using steel over aluminum to help block magnetic fields from penetration into the sensitive audio circuits. This is especially important as direct boxes are often mounted on instrument amplifiers, which have AC power transformers nearby.
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(Ed. Note: We took a bit of a different approach on this one. Having fronted a horn band for more than 20 years, I am well-aware of the difficulty of making a good horn sound right in the system with the mics generally available on your typical house gig. It is why I carry my own horn mics on every gig where I am doing the muso thing. So, for this review, we put the mic in the hands of a top-notch sax player who knows his way around a console and then got some feedback from the sound guys on some of the gigs where he used it. Here is what they had to say.)
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Eddie DiBona takes only a second to explain why he jumped from a regular hotel and casino gig to the land of self-employment. “They exploded The Sands?”, he answers with a laugh. “No, I’m kidding.”
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FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — It started innocently, a couple of red PR 22s for Jada Pinkett Smith, a custom Heil Fin for Jack White and the Pink Pearl mics benefiting the Susan B. Koman Cancer Center. And then the “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” moment arrived at Heil Sound. That moment, when the Camo PR 22 was designed and built, officially created Heil Sound’s new custom shop in its Fairview Heights, IL factory.
Read More »NILES, Ill. — Shure Incorporated has announced a rebate program of up to $1,000 for the trade-in of Shure 700 MHz frequency band (698-806 MHz) wireless systems and other related components purchased before Feb. 1, 2007, and for any other manufacturers’ qualifying 700 MHz frequency band wireless systems and their related components.
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Rat Sound Powers Up L.A.’s Detour Festival.
In this business, there is no doubting the importance of relationships. Whether it’s a chance meeting that grows into a lasting business relationship, or the way you handle and troubleshoot the inevitable issues that occur due to the nature of the live event industry, relationships are built daily.
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