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George Petersen, editor, FOH Magazine

Good…Better…Best!

I recently got an interesting letter (well, email) here from a reader who had a simple, yet thoughtful inquiry. In the message, he stated that he felt he was a pretty good sound reinforcement engineer, but was wondering if I could offer some advice on making the quantum leap from being “pretty good” to becoming a great engineer. The answer, I’m afraid isn’t so simple — if it was, I’d simply write it out and have it printed up in bags of audio fortune cookies with everything you need to know in a soundbite or two.

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Bruno Mars with a Sennheiser SKM 5200 transmitter fitted with an MD 5235 capsule. Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images.

Super Bowl Gets Top Sound to Match its Ratings

It never got as cold as predicted, but that didn’t make the Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show any easier.

It was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Bruno Mars, the diminutive ball of vocal dynamite whose ability to avoid controversy made him the NFL’s pick for the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVIII, delivered an estimated 115.3 million viewers for the Feb. 2 event. They watched him and his hand-picked “special guests,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers rip though a 12-minute set at MetLife Stadium, which was prepared for sub-freezing temperatures but at showtime, Mars’ gold lamé jacket may have been plenty against what turned out to be an almost pleasant evening, with temps around the 40°F. range.

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Redemption Church installed Martin Audio’s MLA Compact system

House of Worship Installation Showcase

Redemption Church, Gilbert, AZ

When Redemption Church recently committed to an expansion and retrofit of their multipurpose conference and worship center, they wanted an audio, video and lighting system that would provide a truly meaningful experience for their members.

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Medium-Format Line Arrays

Medium-Format Line Arrays

The massive, “big gun” 12- and 15-inch line arrays typically grab most of the attention in the pro audio press, but sometimes it’s the “little guy” mid-sized boxes that are the workhorses of the industry. This month, we turn our attention to line arrays based around 8-inch woofers, which are more compact than their 10- and 12-inch cousins and larger than the “mini” 4- to 6-inch enclosures. Yet, like Goldilocks’ preferences, these 8-inch wonders are often “just right” — whether for smaller gigs, club/theater/H.O.W. installs or used as front/down-fills, under-balcony reinforcement, delay lines — the list goes on and on.

To download a PDF of the Feb. 2014 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE

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Fig. 1: Comparison of the polar response at the crossover frequency of a single woofer and HF driver (top) that are misaligned, versus an axis-symmetric dual woofer configuration (bottom). The axis-symmetric configuration creates an inherently symmetric polar response. Image from Wikipedia.com

One Woofer or Two?

Typically, most professional loudspeakers have been comprised of a low frequency driver and a high frequency driver paired together in the manner common to speakers on sticks. Today though, manufacturers have branched out into many different driver orientations in the search for better performance, better coverage, more output and reduced footprint.

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Allen & Heath Qu-16

Allen & Heath Qu-16

Allen & Heath has built a good reputation and become popular with their larger digital consoles. Now they have taken a lot of the technology that has served them well with their iLive and GLD series mixing boards and incorporated it into the Qu-16 (and recently introduced 24-channel Qu-24) consoles.

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