A lot of people take DI boxes for granted. After all, what’s the big deal? You plug them in, and they work. If not, you rummage through the utility drawer until you find one that does work, and off you go. Most people never give any thought about whether or not they are using the best DI for a given application. Of course, we’re here to help.
Read More »If you’re a regular reader, you know that every holiday season, I give my personal insight and advice. This year I will be doing the same, but I also want to add my views on portable speakers and how I have used them during this time and beyond. The Christmas season (or Hanukkah season for many of you) starts for me right after Halloween. I always have a gig on Oct. 31 and, right after that, I start to schedule my duties for the holiday season. The last few years I have limited my actual mixing commitments to one house of worship on Christmas Eve and one on Christmas day. That said, there are still a lot of potential gigs (mainly holiday parties) leading up to the big day. That is where having a healthy assortment of speakers on a stick (tripod) in my arsenal comes in very handy.
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In regard to audio, it’s great to be on a concert tour as a band’s engineer, where the gig is all about the music. Monitors or front of house, small or large venues, opening band or headliner — it is still about the music. In venues catering to a musical performance and a music-loving clientele, these rooms and halls are specifically set up to provide for the best possible audio system. Granted, there are those times when the town crier is standing behind the front of house console with the police chief and an SPL meter telling you that the audio is restricted to be no more than 90 dB at the FOH mix position, and you humbly nod your head in agreement while, at the same time, realize that the SPL coming off the stage is 110 dB before the mains are even turned on. Or a specific piece of gear that is crucial to the show is unavailable in a town so remote that you cannot even imagine that anyone in the vicinity has even heard of the band. I am well aware that even in the best of situations, there are technical problems and audio heartaches, but at least it’s still rock ‘n’ roll — or something like it.
Read More »LOS ANGELES — American DJ reported that it had received a final judgment of $619,392 plus interest in their trademark infringement case against V2Go Technology Corporation and American Audio Laboratory, Inc. Attempts to reach a representative from V2Go for comment were unsuccessful; a phone listing in El Monte, CA for the company, (626) 582-8098, was not in service, and a web search for American Audio Laboratory, Inc. yielded results indicating that the firm had been dissolved after less than four years of operation.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. — Dominic Harter has rejoined Harman to head up Soundcraft’s global sales operation, following the promotion of Adrian Curtis to VP Sales of the Harman Professional EMEA sales team. Harter, who first joined Harman in 1998, has spent the last 10 years with Turbosound, where he was director of R&D before becoming sales director.
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Costa Mesa, CA – QSC Audio Products has launched its AcousticPerformance™ line of two-way, full-range loudspeakers for installed sound reinforcement applications which require higher SPL and a stylish enclosure. All feature 3-inch voice coils, high power-capacity compression drivers and high-output woofers to deliver full bandwidth reproduction. AcousticPerformance models can be used in passive (full-range) mode to minimize amplifier channel count or bi-amp mode for greater control and performance. To further enhance performance, bi-amp and full-range tunings using QSC Intrinsic Correction techniques are available for Q-Sys™ and future QSC products.
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan — Allen & Heath has appointed a new distribution partner in Taiwan called Seapower. The company has close contacts with Allen & Heath’s Chinese distributor, Sanecore, and therefore has access to a wealth of product knowledge and experience with the brand.
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LUTON, Bedfordshire, U.K. — Cadac Holdings Ltd. named David Kan CEO and Nick Fletcher director of research and development. Kan, who has a business management background in Malaysia and the U.K., joined Cadac affiliate Soundking Europe in 2009. Fletcher has been a member of the Cadac engineering team for more than 20 years.
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LONDON — Sound designer Richard Brooker is using a DiGiCo SD7T console with Waves SoundGrid and plugins for the new stage musical adaptation of the film, The Bodyguard, which recently opened at the Adelphi Theatre here.
Read More »GRONINGEN, The Netherlands — Tau Audio Solutions, which has served as a distributor for products in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg for 15 years, announced that it has been named exclusive Benelux distributor for Ashly Audio Inc. products as well.
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FRAMINGHAM, MA — Croatian émigré Tajci has been filling venues ranging from small church spaces to 1,000-seat auditoriums with inspirational music supported by a Bose L1 Model II portable line array and T1 ToneMatch audio engine.
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FORT WORTH, TX — Chris Jordan of Electro Acoustics worked with construction industry veteran Bill Smith on an ambitious project: to restore an architecturally significant Lions Club and relaunch it as the Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge. Jordan, who worked on the venue’s acoustics and audio system, steered Smith toward a Midas PRO2.
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