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Budgeting/Planning for H.O.W. Upgrades

Budgeting/Planning for H.O.W. Upgrades

As individuals, most of us have made a list of resolutions for the New Year. At the same time, many houses of worship have also resolved to upgrade, replace or re-invent their sound systems. There is no doubt that January is a great month for these plans. Actually, any month would be fine, but I get more calls in the first month of the year from churches that want to make changes to their sound systems than any other month. So, January is usually a great month for me.

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Illustration by Andy Au

Fiscal Cliff Jumping and The New Syntax for Sin Tax

There are very few days that we work less than a ten-hour day, and that’s on a good day. From load-in to load-out, we’re lucky if the clock stops ticking at the ten-hour mark, and even if it does, we still have to take into account all the time spent just traveling from one place to the other. Time is money and as I see it, we manage to spend more time than the money we make. I’m not complaining. I’m just stating a fact, because by the time this piece is published, we may all be lying at the bottom of the fiscal cliff clutching our empty wallets due to expired tax cuts.

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Scott Leslie

Renkus-Heinz Names Scott Leslie President

FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Renkus-Heinz named Scott Leslie president. Prior to Renkus-Heinz, Leslie served as vice president of engineering at JBL Professional. He has also worked for Sun Microsystems, Tektronix, and Altec Lansing. Leslie is also founder of Evidant Corporation, providers of Business Intelligence for IT solutions, where he has held executive level positions since 2002.

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Touring with Juanes are, from left, Jonathan Daly, Amable Frometa and Anselmo Rota

Juanes Tours with DiGiCo at FOH and Monitors

LAS VEGAS — 3G Productions, based here, handled audio production for Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes’ Loud and Unplugged Tour in 2012, and plans on rejoining the artist for 2013 as well. For control, the console setup includes a DiGiCo SD10 with Waves SoundGrid bundle along with an SDRack via Optocore for FOH engineer Jose Amable Frometa and another SD10 and SDRack at monitors operated by Anselmo Rota and systems engineer Jonathan Daly.

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Juice Goose Names Taub Sales Rep for Middle Atlantic Region

SILVER SPRING, MD — Juice Goose named Taub Sales, based here, as its representative for the Middle Atlantic region of the U.S. The company credited Taub Sales’ principals, Mort and Steve Taub, as “well respected, experienced professionals who will be providing regional front line and back office support for Juice Goose throughout the commercial audio video, MI and related markets.”

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Jimbo Neal with the VUE h-15s

VUE h-Class Systems Join Brian Setzer Tour

SAN DIEGO, CA — Sound engineer James “Jimbo” Neal recently chose a pair of VUE Audiotechnik h-15 active systems for the final leg of the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Extravaganza tour. Neal’s objective was to augment the existing Sound Image stage monitors with a compact, high-output side fill system.

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White House Tree Lighting Ceremony photo by John Harrington Photography for Bounce/AEG

MSI Provides Sound for Complex White House Holiday Event

WASHINGTON, DC — Maryland Sound International’s (MSI) Matt Snyder knows as well as just about anyone that the White House Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony involves more than a mere flip of a switch. MSI has handled sound for the event for the past decade, and Snyder has been involved for 23 years of the White House’s 90-year tree-lighting tradition.

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