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Fred Pollice

So, Just How Loud IS it?

We at Front Of House Magazine have not harped about the usage of Sound Pressure Level (SPL) meters for a while. But that doesn’t mean the SPL police have stopped lurking around at your gigs. All they may do is give you a polite reminder to turn it down. But in a worst-case scenario you could be facing litigation and fines by violating the rules against excessive noise.

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When Disaster Strikes

A major tour is like a living organism. And like any organism, it will occasionally have accidents. So what happens when the tour stubs its toe, or worse, breaks an arm, just before showtime?

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It All Started in a Garage

There will come a day when business students will learn about 20th century entrepreneurs and the odds are high that every case study they read will start with the phrase, “It all started in a garage.”

The story of Proshow Systems begins 20 years ago in Memphis, Tenn. — in a garage, of course. 

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Panic on the Tarmac

I was traveling home from Europe after six months on a cruise ship, just getting settled on my third flight of the day in Chicago bound for Toronto. There was a line-up to takeoff so we had been sitting on the tarmac for about 20 minutes when I started to fall asleep.

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Museum Ready

Now that my son is a high school varsity wrestler I have the great opportunity to spend most of my weekends inside various gymnasiums and it was on one of these wrestling outings that I found myself in Hamburg Pennsylvania screaming and yelling just like one of the wrestling dads I vowed to never become.

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Winter NAMM 2009: Your Papers, Please

You know those old WWII movies where the hero is trying to make an escape from behind enemy lines, and some SS-type guys would always get on the train and walk down the aisle asking every one, “Your papers, please?” And then everyone would start digging for their official documents to prove they were not enemies of the state while our brave hero tried to figure a way out of the mess?

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Audio Technica AM3 Ambient Mic

Sometimes it is the seemingly small things that can make or break a gig. Most of us would love to see our artists go to personal monitors instead of wedges just cuz it cleans up the stage sound and gives us a “blank-er” canvas on which to mix out front. But one of the big things that performers bitch about with personal monitors is the feeling of isolation. Enter the Audio Technica AM3: Ambient omnidirectional condenser lavalier microphone, terminated with a right-angle 3.5 mm connector. For use with A-T’s M2 and M3 Wireless System Receivers, you plug one of these puppies in, clip it to  your artist and dial in the amount of ambient sound it picks up and feeds into their ear mix. It offers high intelligibility and Includes both a clothing clip and windscreen. Look for a full review of the system in the next issue of FOH. $119.00 U.S. MSRP.

For more information visit <a href="http://www.audio-tecnica.com">www.audio–technica.com</a>

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ATK Audiotek and Audio Analysts Team Up for Super Bowl Audio

NORTHRIDGE, CA—ATK Audiotek of Burbank, Calif., deployed its custom-designedcart system with VerTec for the Pregame Show, National Anthem and Halftime Showat Super Bowl XLIII, held in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL on February 1,2009, while Audio Analysts of Colorado Springs, Colo., deployed theirproprietary JBL-loaded stage monitor system during the halftime show.

 

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Wyclef Jean Appearance in India Relies on EAW Gear

PUNE, India — Wyclef Jean made an appearance on stage at the Venkestshawara Farm House in Pune, Maharashtra, Western India, where Mumbai-based Rich Audio had provided EAW’s KF760 Line Array Speaker Systems. “For FOH, we flew two KF760 line array modules, plus two KF761 line array modules per site with optimal angles of boxes,” said Lee Braganza, Rich Audio FOH and system engineer.

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