WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA – Blue Microphones named Michael "Hucky" Huckler vice president of Worldwide Sales – Pro Division. Huckler has more than 20 years experience in both international sales and global distribution strategies working on behalf of Avid, M-Audio/Midiman and AT&T.
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Waves Audio has updated SoundGrid plugin server capability for DiGiCo SD consoles. Waves SoundGrid-compatible plugins come pre-loaded, eliminating the need to install. Users just need to bring their iLok. All DiGiCo SD consoles support Waves V8 plugins, with the flagship SD7 supporting up to 32 stereo processing racks, with eight plugins per rack, including dual engine support for redundant SoundGrids.
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Sanken's COS-11D HWM is a lightweight, ultra-miniature head worn omni-directional condenser microphone. Based on Sanken's lavaliers used for film and broadcast, it employs a unique vertical diaphragm placement for a greater effective area within its small casing and is optimized for voice. Its adjustable dual-earpiece frame has a mic boom that is interchangeable for left or right side use. It's designed for immunity to RFI and available in beige or cocoa and has a variety of connectors or bare wire. Specs include 50 to 20,000 Hz response and a -43 dB sensitivity at 1 kHz.
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d&b's xA Series has four loudspeakers and two subwoofers. The 10A and 10A-D are passive two-way biaxial designs with a bass-reflex 10-inch driver in a enclosure with a choice of rotatable horns, either 75° x 50° and 110° x 55° ("D"), equipped with a 1.4-inch exit compression driver. The biaxial 10AL and 10AL-D also employ a single 10 but with a biaxial constant directivity HF line array source with either 75° or 105° horizontal coverage respectively using dual 1-inch exit drivers.
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Crown's XTi 2 Series amplifiers provide total speaker processing, eliminating the need for external crossovers, limiters and EQs, saving rack space and money. XTi 2 features PeakX Plus limiters, derived from those found in Crown's I-Tech HD. An improved sub-harmonic synthesizer offers accurate control over which frequencies are targeted. Users now have Advanced Thermal Control to tailor cooling fan performance for specific applications.
Read More »Tony Bennett's 85th Birthday was this month. Happy Birthday, Tony.
I had the distinct honor of mixing Tony Bennett during his MTV Unplugged success. He was happy to have young people discover his music, while their parents were rediscovering it. Prior to joining him, tour manager Vance Anderson would do it all – hotels and travel, advance and backline, run sound and call lights and followspots. When I got his call, out of the blue, Anderson said that Tony wanted to go to a two-man crew, and he remembered me from a one-off the year before.
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Supporting her new Hollywood Records album When the Sun Goes Down, Selena Gomez is playing two-dozen North American concerts through September. Javier Alcaraz from Delicate Productions' South San Francisco office, now in its second year, is providing a brand new Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) system that is proving valuable for taming the outdoor venues on their itinerary.
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Teams of sound engineers converged at Glasto 2011 armed with the latest technology to ensure that, if the trampled grounds were remembered as wet and muddy, the audio quality would be anything but. The festival, which runs the last weekend of June, was sold out within hours of when tickets went on sale last October, months before Coldplay, Beyoncé and U2 were confirmed as headliners at the festival's main Pyramid stage.
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I've been using my Soundcraft Vi6 as my FOH console for several years in festival situations because of its ease of use mixing on the fly and getting guest engineers up and running quickly. There were a couple of additional features, however, that I wanted to implement on my console. The first was the ability to record to 48 tracks and bring them back into the console to create a virtual sound check, and the other was to have the ability to use plugins.
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Maryland Sound, Mickey Beck and Will Miller Deliver "Straight to You"
Touring to support his fifth studio recording, the Rick Rubin-produced Illuminations, singer Josh Groban toured many North American markets this summer, returning to Europe for the remainder of the year. The "Straight to You Tour," named after a track on Illuminations, is playing indoor arenas.
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To download a PDF of the Aug. 2011 FOH Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE .
Every year, there are more new consoles to choose from, on both sides of the analog-digital fence. Some prefer the simplicity and convenience of knob-per-function analog desks, while other enjoy the extra features and benefits offered by digital consoles.
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Don't look for a website for Relles Sound. Owner George Relles of the Eugene, OR-based company hasn't bothered with one, as he's "not in a position to grow my business." But it's an enviable position to be in, because he's "basically been servicing the clients I've had for 20, 30 years."
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