BOSTON — Steve Devino, owner of sound production company Granite Rocks Live, relies on three Metric Halo Mobile I/O 2882 units to meet the often-complex demands of theatricals, concerts, and special events.
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MIAMI — The House Depot and We Love Industries teamed with Congo De Oro Productions for the first annual Carnaval Electronic Music Festival at Miami’s Bayfront Park. Celebrating one of Colombia's oldest carnivals, Carnaval is the 2009 Miami rebirth of that event.
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LONDON — Adlib Audio continued their ongoing relationship with UK indie rockers the Kaisers Chiefs, supplying all sound equipment and crew for the band's latest arena leg of their "Off With Their Heads" world tour.
Read More »OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser’s Installed Sound Academy is a new addition to the company’s Sound Academy seminar series, which began in 2006. The seminar series began with courses focusing on RF wireless techniques and studio recording tips and tricks, and is being re-launched with additional courses, more instructors and a new price.
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Those seeking subtlety should drive right through the 702 area code and head east another 1,200 miles or so until the Topeka town limits are in sight. Then again, those looking to be dazzled should pull right up in front of The Mirage and wait for the newly reworked volcano feature to fire.
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Concert quality subs with drivers of at least 18 inches are already beasts. So, what the hell, we might as well put the power in the box, too. Truth is, we decided to do a Buyers Guide on powered subs and realized that unless we were prepared to publish it in book form we would need a way to further limit submissions.
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Furman continues to be a leader in power conditioning units, due its features and ruggedness. Hardly an outboard rack can be seen without an ubiquitous Furman PL-Plus Power Conditioner or two providing both the power distribution and rack-face illumination from its light tubes.
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The Electro-Voice Tour X series of loudspeakers sits in that middle ground of live sound reinforcement speaker—higher-end than most MI boxes, but not something you are going to find on tour riders either. In other words, great for clubs and bands in a van as well as local soundcos.
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In the early days of audio, the “power matching” technique of creating 600-ohm source impedances to drive 600-ohm load impedances was a standard design practice. The topic of impedance matching used to be a prime teaching topic in decades past. The reason for learning impedance matching was that many sound sources, signal processors, consoles, and amplifiers were borrowed from fields other than sound reinforcement, and the necessity of knowing the input and output impedances was critical to get the system to play nicely together.
Read More »Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a microphone freak, so any activity involving microphones is at the top of the gear lust chart for me. There are three thing you cannot have enough of: money, microphones and well, you can guess what else.
Read More »It’s a cold, hard winter for the meetings and events business. Things are just plain rough out there. According to a survey by the industry trade group Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and American Express that was released last month, seven percent of business meetings already scheduled for 2009 have been canceled, and that number may be an underestimate. We are hearing from our clients and vendors that cancellations often outnumber actual shows, and the recent economic indicators show no sign of relief.
Read More »In this month’s “The Biz” column, FOH reader and guest contributor Floyd Dilman pens a piece titled “Who Will Speak For the Live Event Industry?” It’s a good question and one that becomes more crucial to find an answer to by the day.
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