TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Waves Audio, the industry-leading developer of professional audio digital signal processing technologies and the recipient of a Technical GRAMMY Award, is now shipping the Waves Loudness Meter Plus (WLM Plus) plugin. The next generation of the 2012 TEC Award-winning WLM Loudness Meter plugin, the WLM Plus brings anticipated enhancements and features new correction and adjustment tools.
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NEW YORK, NY – The brick and brownstone building that is home to New York’s Seventh Day Adventist Church has stood on this tree-lined street in Greenwich Village since 1882. Like many of the era’s grand old churches, the acoustics can be magnificent for organ and choir, but the sermons were battling the architecture’s myriad reflective surfaces. To get the combat the reflective surfaces a pair of Renkus-Heinz IC24-R-II digitally steerable column arrays were mounted left and right of the stage to cover the whole room.
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GREENVILLE, NC – Founded in 1964, Oakmont Baptist Church has a rich history of serving the local community with services that are both traditional and contemporary. Music plays a vital role in Oakmont Baptist Church’s worship services and, to ensure the best possible audio quality throughout the sanctuary, the church recently upgraded its sound reinforcement system with components drawn from the catalog of Greensboro, NC-based WorxAudio Technologies.
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RICHMOND, VA — For LIVE ART: Tree of Life, an annual event that recently featured Jason Mraz, k.d. lang, Christina Perri and others, Soundworks of Virginia provided Soundcraft Vi4 digital consoles for FOH and monitor mixing. The event, produced by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), took place within Richmond’s 3,200-seat Landmark Theatre. Pictured here are, from left, Soundworks of Virginia crew members Bryan Hargrave (monitor engineer) and Grant Howard (FOH engineer).
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Welcome to 2014. I’m not sure where 2013 went, but around here, time moves much faster than 1,126 feet/second, and it seems like yesterday that I was penning some kind of welcome address to 2013. This is always the time when journalists everywhere reflect on the past year, but I’m mostly gonna skip that and get to the chase. That said, you don’t want to miss our annual look back at the “Top Tours of 2013” in our expanded “Showtime” edition starting on page 22. (Click HERE to scroll down to the tour listings)
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NASHVILLE — On New Year’s Eve, close to 17,000 “Bassheads” converged at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to usher in 2014 with Bassnectar, the electronic music DJ whose immersive live shows have earned him legions of devoted fans. To ensure an equal experience for all attendees, the 360-degree event featured a rotating stage, as well as the largest Meyer Sound LEO large-scale sound reinforcement system to date.
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INGLEWOOD, CA – The L.A. Forum, also known simply as The Forum, is reopening in a big way Jan. 15 after a $100 million remodeling project – with the kickoff show for the “History of the Eagles” tour, capped off with the world’s biggest record rotating on the roof. Along with hundreds of concerts, the storied venue has hosted NBA championships, Summer Olympics basketball and numerous movie shoots. It was acquired by the Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) in 2012, bringing the venue full circle in a way – it was designed by architect Charles Luckman, who also did Madison Square Garden.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Italian professional audio manufacturer Montarbo (Elettronica Montarbo srl) and Audio Innovation Research, LLC (air audio systems) are backing a joint venture, MontAir Distribution, based here, to expand the presence of Montarbo speakers and air/Software Audio Console (SAC) console/DAW products in the U.S.
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Dave Rat on EAW’s Latest Line Array System
It’s no secret that Rat Sound has a long association with Eastern Acoustic Works. Company principals Dave Rat and Jon Monson worked closely with EAW in the creation of the successful MicroWedge stage monitors line and then contributed throughout the research and development process for Anya, EAW’s latest line array product.
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It’s a big, big band, and somebody’s got to mic it. And that someone is James “Jimbo” Neal.
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With a contemporary program featuring a strong music emphasis, Northcrest Baptist Church (Meridian, MS) has a wide range of offerings including children’s, youth and adult choirs, plus a variety of mission opportunities and worship programs. Recognizing the importance of a quality sound reinforcement and its ability to deliver a high level of speech intelligibility and music reproduction characteristics, the church recently upgraded with a new loudspeaker system from WorxAudio Technologies.
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Well-known in studio circles, but perhaps less familiar to sound reinforcement users, Focusrite has a long and distinguished legacy in professional audio. The company was founded 29 years ago by audio legend Rupert Neve (whose circuit designs still grace a number of Focusrite’s products) and four years later, it was acquired by Soundcraft co-founder Phil Dudderidge. After a short bout in the large console market, Focusrite began expanding its world-class signal processing series with a successful line of audio interfaces that were on-time and in-step with the burgeoning studio market.
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