BOTHELL, WA — The OCA Alliance announced the completion of the OCA 1.0 specification, marking a significant milestone in its drive to create a standardized control and monitoring architecture for professional AV networks.
Read More »NILES, IL, and PORTLAND, OR — Shure and Audinate announced a licensing agreement for Audinate’s Dante digital audio networking technology. Dante networking enables multiple channels of audio to be distributed to a variety of devices over a single Ethernet cable, promising reliable, low latency audio transport that can coexist safely on the same network as IT and control data.
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Soundco
Concert Systems Production Group
Venue
The Amphitheater at the Wharf
Orange Beach, AL
Okay, you purists out there may insist that summer doesn’t officially kick in for a couple weeks, but it sure feels like summer, for a lot of reasons. The weather’s heating up, the kids are out of school and, if not summer, well… the travel season is well underway. And if truth be told, the sound season is off to a good start and showing signs of good health.
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On April 27th, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business presented its GSB Show 2012, an entirely student-written/student-run production that provides a humorous reflection on the past academic year. Held in Palo Alto’s 950-seat Spangenberg Theatre and located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, it’s no surprise that technology played an integral role in the production.
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Rob Zombie takes no prisoners. His live show is a full-on assault every second he and his dynamite band — guitarist John 5, drummer Ginger Fish and bassist Piggy-D — are onstage. The group’s blazing metal/hard rock sound pummels the audience, but it’s the multimedia spectacle accompanying Zombie’s dark, tongue-in-cheek songs that really whips them into submission: Thousands of bizarre images flash on screens behind the stage — everything from hypnotic op-art visuals (on “Living Dead Girl”), to flowing blood (on “Dragula”), to eerie old black & white footage from a 1930s Frankenstein film (for “Jesus Frankenstein”), to flashing patterns, flaming pentagrams, pyrotechnics and the occasional lyric prompt for the crowd to shout out with the charismatic Mr. Zombie. Real flames burst up from behind the band, skeletons adorn the sides of the stage, and other strange characters appear for a few moments, then vanish in this macabre rock nightmare.
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Audio-Technica’s ATM510 cardioid dynamic handheld microphone is a rugged, full metal shaft mic fitted with a rare-earth Hi-Energy® neodymium magnet structure that is holstered in an internal shock mount to reduce handling and stage noise. The multi-layered grill provides a great first line of defense against the pesky “plosives” and assists in controlling distortion that may be caused from sibilant sounds and wind noise. MSRP is $169, with street pricing around $99.
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