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myMix System Expands with Digital Input Option

myMix System Expands with Digital Input Option

Movek's IEX16L-A 16-channel input expander offers two 8-channel digital inputs utilizing the common ADAT format, allowing 16 audio channels to be streamed in 24-bit, 48kHz into a myMix system. The IEX16L-A has an additional 16 analog line-level channel inputs which can be switched in blocks of eight, allowing the use of either 16 digital, 8 analog and 8 digital, or all 16 channels in analog. Since the number of myMix system devices is unlimited, one can set up 160 input signals using any combination of IEX16L-A or local myMix inputs.

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Lexicon DD-8 Multi-Room Amplifier

Lexicon's compact, energy-efficient DD-8 Multi-Room Amplifier, an eight-channel amplifier with DriveCore amplifier technology, is now shipping. It delivers 1,000W – 125 watts into each of its eight channels. It measures 1.7" H (one rack space) by 17.3" W by 14.9" D and weighs 9.2lbs. The DD-8 uses Harman's new DriveCore amplifier IC chip, co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc., with a high level of component integration into an IC that is smaller than a postage stamp, reducing power consumption, heat production and the need for a fan. MSRP: $2,500.

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Adopting Technology and Adapting to Change

I'll never forget my first Heritage 3000; actually it was the first in the US. My friend George Relles saw it introduced at the 1999 Los Angeles NAMM show, pulled out his checkbook and told Bob Doyle he would buy one if they'd take off the handles and end-caps so it would turn it in a 90-inch wide bob-tail truck. It first appeared at a festival where I was mixing monitors for four bands, with no warning, no manual and no time to study it. Each band fit onto a 24×8 section of the console, which I simply routed through the matrix, with side-fills on L/R, so I didn't have to chart a thing. It was love at first sight.

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OSA and SES Support “Oprah’s Surprise Spectacular”

The gear supported the last episodes of the 25-year-old show, produced before a live audience of 13,000 people.

With combined production support from Special Event Services (SES) and On Stage Audio (OSA), Oprah's Surprise Spectacular was taped May 17 before 13,000 lucky fans, bringing together some of the biggest names in movies, music and television in a one-time-only farewell to celebrate the 25-year legacy of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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Kenny Chesney’s Crew Tames Cowboys Stadium

John Mills, third from left, with the Kenny Chesney audio crew

Morris Light & Sound Combines Touring and Installed Electro-Voice X-Line Systems

 

This year's top country tour, Kenny Chesney, has filled many arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums over the last decade. But the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium, next to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, TX and host to last year's Super Bowl, is the largest.

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Raising Clarity to New Heights

DSAs are Improving Intelligibility at Europe's Landmark Churches

 

They were built centuries ago for a higher purpose, and their beauty has endured. The challenge for today's audio system designers and installers is to preserve the aesthetics of the past while helping speech and song to be heard and understood better than ever before in these venerable spaces. Digital tools – including digitally steerable arrays (DSAs) from RCF and Renkus-Heinz – are succeeding in raising intelligibility to new heights. 

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NOLA French Quarter Music Festival

Audio "Team of Rivals" Join Staging Company in Supporting Four-Day Festival

When you think of New Orleans music festival, you think of the Jazz & Heritage. But for locals, there's one that's as dear to their hearts as Du Monde coffee and beignets: The French Quarter Music Festival. This year was the 28th, and over four days in April, 260 local bands performed on 20 stages spread throughout the French Quarter for 533,000 music fans. From brass bands to Zydeco, classical to classic jazz, country to rock, it is a potpourri assault on the senses – the good kind. 

 

 

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Yamaha StageMix iPad App for LS9 Digital Consoles

Yamaha introduced their popular StageMix iPad application for their M7CL at PLASA last fall, and there's been strong interest in an LS9 version since. Released at Frankfurt's Prolight + Sound in April, it's a free download on Apple's iTunes store. I got the call from IATSE steward Susan Phillips to work at Florida State College's Wilson Center with the school's nationally recognized jazz band. Because they have an LS9-32 in a typical performing arts center control booth, I knew this was a great test for the LS9 app.

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Digitally Steerable Arrays

Digitally Steerable Arrays ("DSA") are a relatively new type of loudspeaker system that are not only self-powered, but also employ individual processing for each transducer to control the coverage of the entire array. Using advanced, but well-known techniques of gain-, delay- and frequency-shading, the polar response of an array of transducers can be steered differently than it would behave passively. Steve "Woody" LaCerra discussed DSAs at length in last month's issue.

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