Self-Powered Subwoofers
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Rock in Rio Festival Supported Once Again by Gabisom Audio
The 10th annual week-long Rock In Rio festival returned to Brazil after spending even years of the past decade in Lisbon and Madrid, drawing 700,000 to the site planned for the 2016 Summer Olympics to hear Guns N’ Roses, Shakira, Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder, Ke$ha, Metallica, Rihanna, Coldplay, Elton John, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many other top artists perform.
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Bears, Bucs and Brits at Wembley Stadium
For the fifth year since it opened in 2007, Britannia Row Productions provided live audio for the NFL’s annual International Series game seen by some 80,000 fans in London’s Wembley Stadium — a venue Britannia Row has worked many times, including Live Earth, the Concert for Diana, Metallica and Foo Fighters, among others.
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Katy Perry
Katy Perry rose to fame with her 2008 single, “I Kissed a Girl.” Her 2010 album, Teenage Dream, which debuted at number one, included five number one hits (with a sixth on the way up) — a feat matched only by Michael Jackson’s Bad. She is also the first artist in history to spend 52 weeks in the top 10.
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Xilica XD-4080
Both the XP and XD have an industry-standard choice of Bessel, Butterworth or Linkewitz-Riley crossovers with slopes from 6 to 48 dB-per-octave. Under General Settings, the EQ and crossover settings can be made in either 1 Hz increments or 36 steps per octave.
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Cardioid Arrays Using Powered Subwoofers
Managing low frequencies is one of live audio’s constant challenges. We deal with room nodes, architectural resonances, uneven coverage and unwanted spill. Today’s line arrays provide fairly uniform horizontal coverage with adjustable vertical splay. However, an equivalent vertical subwoofer array that provides low-frequency directivity is enormous. The last decade has brought about the ready availability of digital signal processing (DSP) and with the advent of digital consoles, modest DSP is included in every mixer’s outputs, allowing the easy creation of cardioid arrays with everyday means.
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Waves Plugins Part 8: H-Delay
Okay — I will freely admit it. There are some processors from my real-world rack of outboard gear that I have been missing since adopting the Avid VENUE mixing platform and then choosing to fully embrace the digital domain by relying exclusively on plugins rather than hardware. One absent, and very much missed unit, was an easy-to-use, musical-sounding tap delay. For years, I had been accustomed to having to having one and, quite often, two tc electronic 2290 delay units that I dedicated to lead vocal effects. One would be set for a fairly tight delay time in the 160ms range and returned at a low level to add just a bit of resonant depth to a vocal. The other 2290 was customarily designated for longer delays, utilizing programmed special effects presets that I would change with a remote MIDI keypad.
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Filters, Part 2: Low-Pass, Band-Pass and Band-Reject Options
Last month, we discussed the basics of filters and examined in detail the concept and application for high-pass filters (FRONT of HOUSE, Nov. 2011, page 41). This time we’ll check out low-pass, band-pass and band-reject (a.k.a. “notch”) filters.
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Mid-Sized Music Clubs Make a Comeback
The 1970s were the golden era of the mid-sized music venue. From Max’s Kansas City, CBGB and the Bottom Line in New York to the Troubadour in L.A., a fire code of 500 to 1,500 people seemed like just the right size for rock ‘n’ roll. The larger theaters, like the Fillmores and the Beacon, were waiting to take touring acts to the next level, but the middle tier was the night-to-night Petri dish for the era’s music, a place for artists to develop and let fans watch them do it.
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If you are a regular reader of “Sound Sanctuary” then you have probably read my holiday primers before. If this is the first time, I will give you the outline. Whether you mix at one house of worship or a number of them, the holiday season can offer more challenges than any other time of the year. Each season, I put together a list of my advice, my rules and anything else I have learned during the previous year. It is my hope that this information will help you navigate (in a sane manner) though the holiday season.
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Creative Accounting
Three guys are traveling together, and they stop at a hotel to spend the night. To save money, they decide to rent only one room, and they ask the hotel clerk what the price of the room is for the night. Upon learning that the room is $30 for the night, they each chip in $10 and head for the room.
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