Ashly Audio Supplies Amps and Processors for New York State Department of Labor
An audio upgrade to New York State’s Department of Labor includes Ashly ne-Series digital matrix processors and amplifiers with Protea digital processing.
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Large-Format Line Arrays
The really big jobs, such as stadiums, arenas, festivals and other installs, require sizeable systems, and we offer this look at a selection of large-format line arrays, here defined as systems with dual 12-inch (or larger) woofers.
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Sports Facility Projects
There’s no doubt that audio installations and upgrades within large sports facilities typically present integrators and sound designers with severe challenges. Perhaps by far the most formidable is the sheer scale of multiple coverage areas. The latter not only entails the enormous, cavernous open-air spaces, but also delivering an acceptable listening experience to everyone occupying in the seats, whether fans are courtside or in the upper “nosebleed” seats of an arena or — in a stadium project — on the grandstand, bleachers, end-zones or beneath the second/third deck.
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It’s (Trade) Showtime!
Last month, I made the statement that money makes the world go round. Maybe I was being hasty in that, but with our staff having endured two not-too-coincident overlapping tradeshows this month (NAB and Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound) on two very separate locations — Frankfurt and Las Vegas — I think that the phrase should be “tradeshows make the world go round.” And maybe there’s a lot — or at least a bit — of truth in that.
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Mixing the Kids: EchoSmith World Tour
It’s sounds like another teen novelty act — and in time it may turn out that way — but the American rock/indie band Echosmith is doing the work, writing great songs and putting on engaging live performances that seems to point that they are more than that. But they are young. The quartet is made of four L.A.-based Sierota siblings: Graham (drums/16), sister Sydney (singer/18), Noah (bass/19), and Jamie (guitar/22).
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Ultra Music Festival
Held in Bayfront Park in downtown Miami from March 27 to 29 — and not-too-coincidentally taking place during spring break and the 2015 Winter Music Conference (the leading industry gathering of EDM and dance music artists and producers) — this year’s Ultra Music Festival continued its 17-year history of success.
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