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Just When You Thought You Were Safe…

Just When You Thought You Were Safe…

Live music, the putative savior of the music industry, took a hit in 2010, and that has serious implications for live sound systems providers and operators. According to Pollstar's end-of-year report, concert touring revenues declined steeply last year: ticket sales for the 50 biggest grossing tours globally fell 12 percent, to $2.93 billion, from $3.34 billion in 2009. In the U.S., the world's single biggest music market, the drop-off was even larger, with concerts here reporting a 15 percent decline to $1.69 billion. And those same top 50 acts played 8 percent fewer shows in 2010, says Pollstar.

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Take It To the Limit (Not)

Last month, we covered the different causes of speaker malfunction. If a system is not protected properly, it can lead to a lot of money spent on speaker repair bills that could have been easily spent on other things, such as a good system limiter. But even with the best system limiter in the world, if the system is not set up properly the consequences can be just as bad as without one.

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Sound and Your Congregation

A short while ago, I received e-mail from a reader named Tim Wright of Des Moines, IA. Tim wrote me about questions and concerns his congregation had with regard to the effect bass (sub frequencies) may have on pacemakers and internal heart defibrillators.

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Call In The Pros From Dover

Many of the audio engineers I know possess enough versatility to mix any type of music or event that should come their way and, just like the great musical session players who have a grasp on a multitude of styles. they are able to move with ease from one gig to another. Of course, it's not really that difficult to mix a wide variety of music and speech, since we are dealing primarily with the technical aspects of the audio program, but while our job is of the utmost importance, we engineers need to be aware that we are not the content but rather the conduit to carry the program to the listener's ear.

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