NEW YORK — For 54 Below, a supper club located below the former nightclub, Studio 54, veteran sound designer Peter Hylenski turned to Masque Sound for an audio system that includes an Avid SC48 digital console, Millennia Media pre-amps, a JoeCo black-box recorder and BSS processors.
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NEW YORK — Showtime Sound is providing EAW KF740 loudspeakers, SB1000z subwoofers and KF755 and JF80 units for outfills and downfills to support the wide range of venues on hip-hop artist Mac Miller’s current tour.
Read More »RIO DE JANEIRO — Live sound provider Hoffmann deployed a Harman audio system to support the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20, held here June 13-22. The setup included AKG microphones, JBL EON510 portable powered loudspeakers and a Soundcraft Vi1 console.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Extron Electronics, a professional AV system integration products manufacturer, worked with Allstage Pro to equip The Ranch Restaurant & Saloon, a country music and dancing venue located on the ground floor of Extron’s new corporate headquarters here, with a Meyer Sound system centered around MICA line array loudspeakers.
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OSHKOSH, WI — For the Country USA festival, staged at the Ford Festival Grounds here from June 19-23, Precise Corporate Staging provided an L-Acoustics rig for artists including The Band Perry, Sawyer Brown, Sugarland, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban.
Read More »It’s been a couple weeks since InfoComm 2012 and by all accounts, this year’s event was one of the most successful shows that organization has presented in recent memory. (Note: For highlights and insights on InfoComm 2012, CLICK HERE). Attendance was up, there was no shortage of new technology, new tools and new toys to check out, and the vibe among attendees — both exhibitors and visitors — was uncompromisingly positive. All of the above are good signs that bode well for the overall health of the industry.
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From June 9-16, 34,268 AV professionals from 90 countries came to Las Vegas for InfoComm 2012, the annual conference and exhibition for the audiovisual and information communications industries. The week-long event offered dozens of seminars, training sessions, technical tours and educational programs, as well as the tradeshow floor, which featured 933 exhibitors displaying the latest AV technology in 487,000 square feet of exhibit and special events space.
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Without contradicting himself in the least, FOH engineer Jason M. Tarulli describes how his job is not hard, yet is difficult at the same time. The Black Keys are a two-piece band that’s a four-piece, and at the end of the day can take up to 60 inputs.
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Every year brings more processing power to all aspects of live sound. Modern loudspeaker processing routinely employs equalization, delay, crossovers, limiting and other advanced DSP processing techniques, such as FIR filters. DSP can be found in standalone processors, in amplifiers or built into powered speakers.
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SIA Acoustics Helps Shape the Sound in eTown’s New Performing Arts Facility
It starts with a phone call… or an email. “I want to build a studio or a sound stage or even a concert hall.” Usually, it’s the owner, just starting out and wondering how to move forward. Sometimes, it’s an architect or even a construction manager, hired on and wondering how to turn a mostly amorphous vision for a facility into drawings and either a new building or a renovation of an existing space. Some discussion of the project’s program, what the facility’s intended to do, and its space requirements, budget and goals — both operational and initial capital needs, as well as potential cash flow — will quickly reveal how realistic (or unrealistic) the concept is. These calls come often. Sometimes there is a second or even third call. Some of these turn into real projects. It’s all part of the life of an acoustical consulting firm.
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Once upon a time, the very idea of recording the band and capturing multitrack performances from the FOH position was unheard of — a nearly impossible task. Analog recorders — while today worshipped in the studio for their thick, “phat” sound — were never really suited for life on the road, being somewhat fragile, and also limited to a 33-minute record time on a 10.5-inch (2,500-foot) reel of tape. That said, there were some pioneers, like Ron Wickersham (also co-creator of the Grateful Dead’s famous/infamous wall of sound) who modified early Ampex decks to take 14-inch reels to capture the Dead’s 1972 European tour.
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A simple mention of the word “wireless” these days is bound to bring up grumbling in the mind of audio production professionals. And with good reason, especially given the reality of dealing with the ever-shrinking landscape of available wireless frequencies. What was once a relatively straightforward process of selecting a few channels and doing your show has become increasingly complicated. Fortunately, pro audio manufacturers — particularly those who manufacture wireless systems — are by nature pretty smart, and have come up with some clever solutions, such as online frequency searching and intelligent systems that can quickly scan and lock onto open airspace.
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