SYDNEY – Dave Samwell, sound engineer for Liverpool-based indie band The Wombats, specified a Soundcraft Vi6 console for the band's recent Australia tour. Samwell credited the console for its compact size, ease of use, and user layers, which helped the supporting band's engineers get up to speed quickly. JPJ Audio provided the console and other audio gear for the tour.
Read More »JESSUP, MD – Automated Processes, Inc. (API) named ES-Pro Audio regional distributor in Germany and named a number of new dealers in that country. The distributor and dealer names and websites follow:
Read More »REDMOND, WA – YCATS (Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars) training sessions will take place at Overland Christian Church Nov. 8-10 from 8am to 5pm each day. The classes include advanced instruction for users of Yamaha's M7CL digital console; a workshop for the LS9 digital console; a digital network and systems design clinic; and a showcase of NEXO speaker technology (GEO Series, PS Series, 45N12, RS Series Subs, GeoSUB, and NXAMP). The seminars are open to all audio professionals and free of charge.
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SEATTLE, WA – Symetrix named Jeff Sondermeyer director of engineering and chief technology officer. Prior to Symetrix, Sondermeyer worked for nearly 20 years at different companies including Peavey Electronics, Mackie Designs and Analog Devices (ADI). At ADI, where he served as as senior field apps engineer, Sondermeyer helped Symetrix integrate ADI's Sharc and Blackfin chips into Symetrix products.
Read More »MANCHESTER, NH – Daddy's Junky Music's 39 years in business came to an abrupt halt Oct. 26 when the company's creditors assumed ownership of the 12 stores and all the inventory in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont.
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MANGOCHI, Malawi – Held at varying locations along the shore of Lake Malawi on the borders of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania since 2004, the Lake of the Stars Malawi Festival's flown-in and hand-ported audio system included a Midas PRO2C console.
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DOVER, OH – Hoping to upgrade intelligibility at the reverberant St. John's United Church of Christ, Tim Badger of Alstage Sound & Lighting was looking for an alternative to expensive acoustic treatments and the aesthetic complications of a staggered system design. His solution was to use a Bosch Vari-directional Array plus a pair of Electro-Voice EVID 4.2s for light balcony fill. Badger has since replicated that success at three more Ohio churches.
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CHICAGO – The Chicago White Sox baseball organization, based at Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field, installed Shure's PSM900 Wireless Personal Monitor and UHF-R Wireless Microphone Systems for the 2011 season, upgrading from Shure's PSM700. The new gear helped the baseball organization avoid running afoul of new FCC regulations on permissible spectrum band frequencies.
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NEW YORK – Book of Mormon took home nine of the 14 Tony Awards it had been nominated for earlier this year, including one for Best Sound Design. To optimize the sound – especially for the area where theatre critics and other VIPs are seated – sound designer Brian Ronan and production engineer Christopher Sloan used a downfill array of nine L-Acoustics dV-DOSC cabinets in a nearly horizontal orientation to overcome challenges posed by the musical's scenic elements.
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LONDON – Frankie Knuckles, David Morales and CJ Mackintosh were among the long list of DJs helping London's Ministry of Sound celebrate its 20th birthday, and they all had good things to say about the Martin Audio system, which R&D Director Jason Baird had fine-tuned in anticipation of the club's three-day celebration.
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BARCELONA – After Russ Tite, FOH engineer for The Kooks, mixed the band this past summer with Midas Heritage 3000 and XL4 consoles, he decided to stick with the Midas brand for the band's shows in Europe this fall. "We were almost going to take an XL4, but you can't really fit one on a tour like this, so I decided to try the PRO6, and it sounds incredible," Tite said.
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Countryman Associates' B2D Directional Lavalier Microphone, as small as the diameter of a No. 2 pencil lead, is well-suited for theatrical or musical sound reinforcement applications where a diminutive size is a big priority. It also offers a tight, hypercardioid polar pattern for secure isolation from ambient noise and feedback, a frequency response of 50 Hz to 18 kHz, with a 4 dB presence boost at 6 kHz for increased intelligibility without being harsh or brittle. It is available in three sensitivities / versions to accommodate a wide range of applications. The corresponding overload levels (at 1% THD) are: 120 dB SPL, 130 dB SPL and 140 dB SPL. The MSRP is $650.
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