Cable Cube is a multi-conductor speaker cable accessory that breaks-out, combines and functions as a hi-tech adaptor for Neutrik Speakon style speaker cables. The Cable Cube is equipped with fly clip track that allows you fasten them to trusses and other types of rigging. It functions bi-directionally for use as splitters and combiners. Cable Cube products provide the user with a multi-conductor output connection for small temporary amp racks.
Read More »Tinton Falls, N.J. – Fits & Starts Productions, LLC, producer of the HOW-TO Sound Workshops, has introduced atwo new seminars to its national tour lineup: 1) Recording for Worship and 2) Advanced Mixing for Worship. The new workshops add to the growing stable of the nationally recognized HOW-TO Sound Workshops, which tour to houses of worship, pro audio organizations and universities each year, covering some 60,000 miles in the tour process. The tours are sponsored by some of the audio industry's best-known manufacturers.
Read More »NILES, IL – Shure Incorporated has uncovered a number of hawker stalls in Hong Kong’s popular electronics marketplace, Apliu Street in Shamshuipo, selling counterfeit Shure earphones. This investigation is part of the Company’s continued efforts to combat the illegal manufacture and sale of counterfeit Shure products.
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BUENOS AIRES –Buenos Aires Live Show (B.A.L.S.) deployed a large JBL VerTec system for Rod Stewart’s recent concert at Velez Sarsfield Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The show was part of Rod Stewart’s current world tour supporting his latest release, “Still The Same…Great Rock Classics of our Time.”
LITITZ, Pa. – Clair Brothers Showco has purchased and taken delivery of two Midas XL8 Live Performance Systems. The Midas flagship joins Clair Brothers’ extensive XL4 and Heritage 3000 rental inventory, which continue to be used daily on major touring productions, both across America and throughout the world.
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PUYALLUP, Wash. – Experience Church recently overhauled their main sanctuary with a total McCauley solution built on the IN.LINE installation line array technology. Senior Pastor Dennis Cummins and Media Music Pastor Dave Richards researched their decision extensively, visiting worship technology conferences and participating in several demos from a range of manufacturers before making the decision to work with McCauley Sound.
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Baja California, MEXICO – Prog rockers of the world unite each year in Baja California for the BAJA PROG festival. For the second year running, NEXO systems were provided for the main stage, pleasing the many international sound engineers attending the event.
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LONDON – Björk’s current world tour uses some of the most cutting edge on-stage technology out there. Björk’s band includes Damian Taylor whose rig resembles the bridge of the Starship Enterprise and includes a Yamaha Tenori-on, which is displayed on large plasma screens to the wide-eyed crowds during the track “Who Is It?.” “Björk felt it would be cool to feature the gear,” says Damian, “ to make it part of the stage set rather than using abstract pre-recorded visuals and projections.”
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NILES, IL — Shure Incorporated announced that a three-member team from the Music Department at Texas State University is this year's Grand Prize Winner of the fourth annual “Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition.” The three-student team of Joel Cowen, Adam Brisbin and Jordan Lott, with Faculty Advisor Mark Erickson, won this year's Shure contest with an original composition by Graham Wilkinson and the Underground Township entitled “Let It Go.”
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It has become the standard thing, but it was only about a decade ago that the case that held crossovers, EQ, system level compressors and delay and was known as a drive rack got combined into one digital beast and shrunk into a couple of rack spaces.
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BUSINESS
Who: Patrick Quilter, chairman and senior amplifier designer of QSC Audio Products.
What: Manufacturer of pro audio products.
Where: Costa Mesa, Calif.
When: Founded in July 1968 “on a very small scale and got serious” around 1973.
First gig: “We provided a PA system for a dingy cellar nightclub near the Golden Bear, a prestigious dive in Huntington Beach, Calif. It turned out to be an ‘unpaid gig,’ and due to our naiveté about purchase contracts and collateral, they even got to keep the PA system.”
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When we rail on the importance of “gain structure,” what we are really aiming for is less noise or “hiss” and a louder signal. In other words, we are trying to optimize signal-to-noise ratio that is typically expressed in decibels. Having discussed some basics on gain structure previously in this column, I want to recap a bit and move forward.
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