The Winter Olympics just finished up and — other than getting hooked on endlessly watching all the competitions, one theme that struck me was the concept of a “shrinking” world. Between the Internet, Skype, emails, FedEx deliveries and web forums, the entire globe is a much closer knit community that ever.
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Baton Rouge River Center,
Baton Rouge LA
“Combining the shows is going wonderfully well,” Howard Page declares, as the current Paul Simon/Sting tour was getting underway in early February. He’s an honest man so there’s no reason to not take him at his word, but on paper, the current Paul Simon/Sting tour sure looks complicated and daunting. First, you have two very different performers with different styles of music (though both share a devotion to great songwriting). They perform together. They perform separately with their respective bands. Their bands perform separately and apart. Simon does Sting songs. Sting does Simon songs. At one point Simon’s guitarist joins Sting for a tune. It’s a spin-the-bottle of possibilities.
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There’s definitely an upswing of interest in live theater and performing arts centers, both in terms of new construction, renovations of historical buildings and transformations of existing structures into new venues. Along the same lines, facilities have also seen the benefits of upgrading sound systems to meet increasingly higher standards set by audiences who expect hi-def clarity, vocal intelligibility and punch from live music and theatrical presentations. With that in mind, we looked into a number of interesting new projects and found a range of successful approaches designed for both production flexibility and great sound — in venues of all sizes.
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Christian Poulsen of DPA Microphones has a plan to take over the world with good audio
On December, 17, 2013, renowned microphone manufacturer DPA announced that the Riverside Company would become majority shareholders in the company. It was a startling move to many observers of the fiercely independent Danish company, but this manufacturer has been making sweeping changes under its relatively new CEO Christian Poulsen, and his latest move only bolstered his mission to make sure DPA becomes one of the top three microphone companies in the world — by any standard.
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This article is adapted from Wireless Systems Guide: Antenna Setup, a Shure educational publication available from shure.com. —ed.
We’re all familiar with transducers, such as speakers and microphones. Yet antennas, which also convert one form of energy to another — in this case, radio-frequency electric current to radiated electromagnetic waves (and vice versa) — are another form of transducer. And with any transducer, following certain guidelines helps ensure maximum performance.
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Over the years, headworn microphones have evolved from clunky, low-fi affairs into lightweight, nearly invisible transducers capable of serious audio quality, equaling many handheld models.… Read More »Miniature Headworn Microphones
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