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Once considered just a “music store” show, NAMM has evolved into a premier showcase for pro products for live sound, touring, and even the installed sound market. We make the annual pilgrimage to Anaheim for the Winter NAMM show after our holiday cheer has worn off and before the Super Bowl and Grammys get us all wound up again.
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Bob Seger: Rock and Roll Never Forgets
Blue-collar heartland rocker Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band spent last spring and this winter on their first tour since 2006’s Face the Promise tour, earning a spot right in the middle of Pollstar’s Top 25 North American Tours of 2011, selling over a half million tickets for 48 shows in 45 cities, and winding up like many good runs with a stop in my hometown of Jacksonville, FL.
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Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD Amplifier
Crown Audio is re-defining professional multi-channel power amplifiers, introducing their new flagship I-Tech HD Series 4x3500HD DriveCore Series 4-channel power amplifier. The “HD4,” as it is nicknamed, incorporates Crown’s sixth-generation Class I engine with DriveCore™ technology to deliver 3,500 watts per channel burst into four or two ohms.
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Column Speakers
Column loudspeakers have seen a resurgence of use, especially in the installation world. While the basic design dates back to venerable products like the Shure Vocal Master, advances in driver technology put modern column loudspeakers in a very different class from their historic cousins. Broadly, column loudspeakers consist of arrays of many small, closely spaced drivers. These may be full range drivers or multi-way systems. Column loudspeakers are, by nature, tall and narrow. They are usually installed in a vertically-oriented position, such as against the face of a proscenium, or next to a whiteboard.
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Florida’s Production Support Group
The Business of Being Up when Times are Down
Larry Schmidt’s “secret” can be summed up in three words: common business sense.
No fancy MBA here, just some business classes at a junior college and the patience to sit down with a sharpened pencil to just work through it has put him where he is today. It’s a spectacular year (and that’s not even counting the Parnelli Award the company received in 2011 for Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year!)
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