SAN DIEGOm — VUE Audiotechnik announced a development partnership with Materion Electrofusion, a major supplier of beryllium and other advanced materials with potential usage for acoustic applications.
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Stagetec’s new XDIP board, which connects NEXUS to networks running Audinate’s Dante, lets users create audio and media networks on existing standard Ethernet infrastructure using TCP/IP. Dante provides a migration path with the emerging AVB standard IEEE 802.1BA..
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Although Harman’s Studer Compact Remote Bay portable controller isn’t much bigger than a laptop, it has 12 motorized Penny & Giles faders and 40 rotary controls which link to a 19-inch touch-screen running Studer’s Virtual Vista software. This emulates the console’s Vistonics user interface.
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EAW introduced the first two products in the new Avalon by EAW line of dance club loudspeaker systems: CLUB.two and CLUB.three, designed in partnership with club designer/owner John Lyons, who previously worked with EAW in the late 1990s (hence the “two” and “three” in the model names.)
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Lady Antebellum is an American country music group, fronted by the tight harmonies and songwriting trio of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, who also plays guitar and mandolin. They’re currently touring in support of their third album, Own The Night, released last September, which won Best Country Album at this year’s Grammy Awards, following their previous album, Need You Now, which won five for a career total of seven.
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As a recently-married man, I’ve found that there are traditions that you marry into. One of those traditions is annually joining my wife aboard The Rock Boat (therockboat.com), a themed music cruise which is now preparing for its 13th installment, hosted by the band Sister Hazel and boasting 2,000 attendees. The producer, Sixthman, who formed alongside the original Rock Boat more than a decade ago, provides themed cruises for artists as diverse as Kid Rock, Weezer and Zac Brown Band.
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Other than the recent enhancement of the 01V96 and the marvelous StageMix iPad Apps, it has been a quiet spell for new Yamaha digital mixing boards. Their biggest news in years was announced at Frankfurt’s Prolight + Sound last month. The CL Series consists of three consoles, the CL1, CL3 and CL5, ranging from 48 to 72 mono channels plus eight stereo inputs, as well as two Dante-enabled stage boxes.
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From AKG, Audio-Technica, Lectrosonics, Line 6, MiPro, Sabine, Shure and Sony.
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For the last 22 months, wireless microphones haven’t been allowed to operate in the 700 MHz band (698 – 806 MHz) in the US. Many systems were sold in this spectrum, but are now illegal to resell or operate in the US. This remains news to some wireless users, and illegal 700-band systems can be found in ballrooms, churches and schools, with some continuing to plead ignorance as an excuse.
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Hi-Tech Electronics Enhances the Sound at World Overcomers Christian Church
Be more than you have ever been before. Stop being a victim, be a victor. Be an Overcomer!”
That’s the message at Durham, NC-based World Overcomers Christian Church, and it is striking a chord with a growing number of congregants.
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The Sennheiser XS Wireless comes in five application-specific sets. Two are vocal sets — one with the SKM 35 handheld transmitter featuring Sennheiser’s standard e835 dynamic cardioid capsule; the second, XSW 65, comes with an electret super-cardioid condenser capsule.
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Every once in a while, a product comes along that seems so obvious it makes you wonder why someone didn’t invent it a long time before. David Lichterman actually introduced me to the original D3 Optogate at the 1999 Winter NAMM Show. I would like to show you the PB-05.
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