LAS VEGAS — Along with 2013’s double-weekend sellouts for the Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March and Coachella in April, the Electric Daisy Carnival, set for June 21-23, is also due to set a new attendance record, with Insomniac Events reporting the sale of 345,000 tickets — 115,000 per night — up from total ticket sales of 320,000 last year.
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You can call it “The Big Show,” or perhaps “The Main Event,” and for a great many pros in the sound reinforcement industry, all eyes and ears will be on Orlando for InfoComm 2013. This year, the convention kicks off its conference program on June 8, with the not-to-be-missed exhibit floor opening its doors on June 12. The audio demo rooms begin a day earlier, on June 11, giving attendees more time to focus on actually hearing products in a live and up-close environment.
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RIO RANCHO, NM – Lectrosonics recently detailed the requirements for its Aspen Certified Dealer Program, which was launched in mid-February 2013. Lectrosonics’ Aspen Series processors manage a variety of functions such as signal routing, automixing, and other audio tasks for a multitude of sources—often in a fully automated, unattended environment.
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Grund Audio Design’s ACX series has five low-cost MDF-enclosure models designed to handle medium-size, 200- to 400-seat venues. The series includes the two-way ACX-2 ($339 MSRP) and ACX-5 ($379) with 12- or 15-inch woofer and 1-inch HF driver on a 90° by 40° rotatable horn, with handles and pole mount. (Flyable versions are available.) A companion ACX-8S ($499) 18-inch, 400W-handling subwoofer and ACX-2M ($339)/ACX-5M ($379) wedge monitor versions of the main cabinets are also offered. All are unpowered and feature Speakon connectors..
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NEW YORK—When Sound Designer Leon Rothenberg was tasked with reproducing the post-vaudeville burlesque scene of the 1930s for the new Broadway play, The Nance, he turned to Masque Sound. Rothenberg also worked with Danny Erdberg, Liz Coleman and Marc Salzberg on challenges that ranged from the need to accurately portray vaudeville – which was originally performed without sound reinforcement – and to give the audience the impression of being with the characters “backstage.”
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For four days in May (9 to 12), 26 acres on the grounds at the Napa Valley Expo fairgrounds in the city of Napa, CA, were transformed into a completely different kind of festival experience. Forget the dusty, crowded fields of many huge tribal rock gatherings. While basking in the glow of the sun that made this area into one of the world’s great wine regions, BottleRock Napa Valley festival attendees could enjoy an amazing culinary experience (supplied by world-class restaurateurs, 60 vintner partners and artisan microbrewers) while taking in performances by some of today’s hottest musical performers and comedians. Very civilized, indeed.
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Audio installations and upgrades within large sports facilities present sound designers with several challenges, starting with scale — not just the vast, open-air or cavernous spaces, but the challenge of delivering an acceptable listening experience to everyone occupying all those seats and synchronizing the audio with today’s big video screens. Reverberation and intelligibility are huge challenges, particularly for enclosed spaces. Another significant factor that has to be considered is the exuberance of the fans themselves, and the need for the P.A. system to be heard above crowd noise that can peak at 105 dB or more. Last but not least are the challenges of getting the entire installation performed correctly, safely, on time and on budget, when those two invaluable commodities — time and money — are so often in scarce supply.
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Great things sometime spring up out of humble beginnings. And a good example of that is Kaltman Creations, a business that began in 2006 to market the Kaltman Cable Coiler™, a device to speed the coiling of microphone cables after a performance. Yet early on, company founder Mark Kaltman, a musician and studio/touring engineer who also held positions at various pro audio and broadcast companies, including Klotz Digital, Aeta Audio, Denon and Sabine — recognized a growing need in the industry. He applied his keen entrepreneurial sense to eventually develop a line of RF and EMC test and measurement devices that provided practical and cost-effective wireless solutions at the right time and place.
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Today’s small-format digital consoles (defined here as models with under-$10k street pricing and moveable by a single person) are long on features, inputs and DSP… Read More »Small-Format Digital Consoles
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Founded in 1983 by Brock Adamson, Ontario-based Adamson Systems has evolved from a small operation into a leading supplier of cutting-edge products for the professional touring and installation market. Today, Adamson products can be found gracing world-class performing facilities, houses of worship and on stages supporting some of the best-known musical acts in the world.
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Generators, and portable power distribution in general, are central to professional audio. Electricity is a powerful means of transferring energy; it is the lifeblood of all pro audio gear. While electricity is ever-present, it is rarely discussed technically in print, in part because of the liability that accompanies its underlying power.
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It’s been a while since Avid has made a major change or product launch in its highly successful line of live sound consoles. Now, just before InfoComm, Avid has introduced the new S3L, which delivers the sound quality, performance and features of Avid live audio systems in an all-new modular, networked design, supporting Ethernet AVB and EuCon open network standards for professional live sound reinforcement mixing and recording.
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