Being in the live sound business, and especially towards the ankle-biting side, I get a lot questions of how much audio power or amperes of loading a typical circuit can handle before tripping the circuit breaker.
Read More »Many of you walk into your church just before the service begins; you turn on the system and wait for the congregation to show up. You do your mixing job, turn off the system and go home. This approach to mixing is not a problem unless some piece of gear or cable fails, then you’re stuck, and so is the congregation.
Read More »As you all know by now, Bernie Madoff is in jail and serving a sentence of 150 years. It’s an absurd number of years for anyone to be sentenced, and considering that Madoff is now in his 70s, barring some sort of divine intervention, he will in reality probably only serve 15 or 20 years of said sentence before he dies in prison.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR — Audinate announced that Peavey has expanded its networking options for the MediaMatrix product portfolio by including Audinate’s networking solution. The first MediaMatrix products to have Audinate’s advanced networking technology are the NION nX product family and the CAB 4n audio bridge.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves Audio introduced its CLA Classic Compressors, developed in collaboration with mixing engineer Chris Lord-Alge, who has worked with artists including Green Day, U2, Tina Turner, James Brown, Nickelback, Rod Stewart, Santana, Steve Winwood, Celine Dion and others.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — Billed as “America’s Biggest Birthday Party,” Fair St. Louis typically hosts a series of Friday and Saturday night LIVE On The Levee concerts with National and local talent from the 3rd and 4th of July through early August, with a weekend off for this year’s All Star Game at Busch Stadium. All of the concerts and celebrations were capped off by extensive fireworks displays.
Read More »HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY — General Cable Corporation acquired Gepco International, Inc. and Isotec, Inc., together known as Gepco, a manufacturer and provider of cabling solutions for the professional broadcast and entertainment markets. Gepco reported 2008 revenues of about $46 million.
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DUBAI, UAE — SLS Productions provided a JBL VerTec line array system for a Deep Purple concert that capped the fourth annual Dubai Bike Week. Event promoters Live Nation and MECOM contracted SLS Productions to provide the sound, lighting and video systems for the three-day festival, which drew more than 25,000 visitors.
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NEW ORLEANS — Gand Concert Sound recently provided a NEXO GEO T, GEO S, CD18 subs, PS15, PS10 and PS 8 monitors for the Evangelical Lutheran Youth of America Gathering held at the Superdome from July 22-26. The event, attended by 38,000 teens, required a five-day load-in.
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JACKSON, OR —Chris Franz, owner of Star Pro Audio in Nashville and FOH mixer for Flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook, got his first chance to use the Soundcraft Vi6 digital live sound console at BrittFest recently, and described the experience as “breathtaking.”
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NORTH CHARLESTON, SC — The planning and construction of Northwood Baptist Church’s new worship center in North Charleston, South Carolina, took nearly four years — and the church couldn’t be happier.
Read More »NOVATO, CA — Point Source Audio (PSA) named Yvonne Ho as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining Point Source Audio in 2008, Ho served as marketing director for Phonic Ear (now known as Front Row).
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