How far would you go to work a show with one of your favorite artists? When I was first contacted about traveling to Moscow to participate in a performance with Cher, my internalized answer was, “Really?” but my externalized answer was, “Oh yeah!”
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If the recent presidential election taught us nothing else, it’s that data has replaced content as the king of media technology. No matter how good a show could potentially be, if you suddenly discover that the FOH console you were expecting to use for it is lying in pieces on the wrong end of a loading dock 2,000 miles away, it’s not the missing faders you’ll really be stressing about but rather the missing information, like channel labels, phase, delay, filters, EQ, inserts, compression ratios, gate thresholds, aux sends and masters settings that those faders would have been accessing.
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Dealing with acoustic guitar in a live environment can be tricky business. A lot of external factors — many over which you have no control — influence your options for getting the guitar into the PA system, producing sufficient volume, delivering tone faithful to the instrument, and avoiding feedback. Your ability to effectively mic an acoustic guitar on stage is dependent on the stage volume of the musician(s); the volume of the audience; the acoustic guitar player’s preferred method of monitoring; the type of guitar (steel or nylon string) and your budget.
Read More »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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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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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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MANILA — Allen & Heath named JB Music as its exclusive distributor in the Philippines to support the growth of the brand in South East Asia. The company chose JB Music on the basis of its dealer network, service department and in-house technical expertise.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR — Audinate named Steve Greenall director of sales for Europe. Greenall, who resides in the UK, will also be responsible for leading sales activities in the Middle East, Africa and ASEAN countries, supporting the industry’s growing reliance upon Audinate’s Dante media networking solution across the AV industry.
Read More »SOLON, OH — CAD Audio added three additional rep firms to its sales network: Quest Marketing, dB Marketing, and AMP Sales.
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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.
Read More »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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VENICE, FL — Creative Sound Solutions provided an X3-P compact line array from WorxAudio Technologies to meet the coverage and audio quality sought by congregation leaders at First Christian Church here. Rob Robinson, general manager and co-owner of Creative Sound Solutions, managed the project and discussed its challenges.
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