I’m a 20+ year employee of Clair Global working for a popular Cuban born Miami resident and her 15 piece band as A2. (I’ll leave out her name to avoid litigation, but you can probably guess). We brought some gear with us (Board groups, etc), and got some locally (stacks and racks). We also carried a 45k.v.a. Transformer to interface with local 220 volt power (mostly generators).
Read More »An Alternate Look at the Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient PM System
In the December 2007 issue of FOH magazine, Bill Evans presented a review of the Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient Personal Monitor System (www.sensaphonics.com). For the complete nuts and bolts of the system you can refer to that review, but this month in On the Digital Edge we’re going to revisit Sensaphonics’ technology from a slightly different perspective.
Read More »When Bill Sheppell flew home to Ohio in mid-June, he was looking for a little R&R before undertaking what was to have been the gig of the year, if not the decade, as FOH mixer for Michael Jackson’s 50-night This Is It stand at London’s O2 arena, likely to be followed up by a world tour with the same massive stage and troupe.
Read More »A lot of commentary I have heard is that many modern consoles do not have the warmth or fidelity that classic analog circuitry consoles do have. Yeah, many of these consoles are digital and the flexibility in the digital realm is hard to argue for the money invested. But are there tricks and techniques that we can employ to warm up these cold sounding consoles?
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Despite all of our expertise and experience, we live in a world where entropy appears to be the norm and there is no real assurance that our endeavors will lead to success. Without bloviating or waxing poetic regarding our collective attempts to manipulate and control chaos, Murphy’s Law simply states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
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LAS VEGAS — The new $662 million Aliante Station casino, on the northern fringe of the Las Vegas metro area, depends on its showroom as a key draw for locals and tourists.
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LAS VEGAS — Mark Amundson, the technical editor of FOH, died on Friday, Sept 4 from what appear to be complications after surgery. An autopsy… Read More »Mark Amundson, FOH Tech Editor, Dead at 49
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TERAMO, Italy — Proel Group Professional has been formed and is being led by Gianluca Farina, who was named sales manager. The new division was created to enhance the company’s efficiency and customer support with audio, video and lighting gear.
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LAS VEGAS — Nominations are being accepted online to honor those individuals and companies for exceptional work in the pro audio field, and this window of opportunity will be closing Friday, Sept. 11 at 5 p.m. PST, so go to www.parnelliawards.com and click on the Parnelli Awards nomination link today.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Brazilian radio station Atlantida FM recently hosted the indoor Atlantida Festival, a 12-hour live music event held at the Fiergs Exposition Center in Porto Alegre, with performances by Claus and Vanessa, Strike, NX Zero, Capital Inicial and Charlie Brown Jr., Lugphil Audio provided the live audio reinforcement system, which included a Soundcraft Vi6 console.
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KELOWNA, BC — When the owners of the flagship Orchard Park Mall approached Northwest Global Entertainment about an upgrade to their audio, the challenge was straightforward.
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HERSHEY, PA — Demi Lovato visited nearly 50 cities across the U.S. in support of her second Hollywood Records album release, Here We Go Again, using Sennheiser equipment, including multiple channels of vocal microphone, instrument and personal monitor systems.
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