AIKEN, SC – For its recently completed sanctuary, the South Aiken Church of God chose a sound reinforcement system consisting of components from the TrueLine and Wave Series lines of WorxAudio Technologies.
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OAK BLUFFS, MA – School music teacher Brian Weiland spent over 12 years in a quest for clear, consistent sound reinforcement for his young actors and singers. He tried stand-mounted mics, hanging mics and wireless mics – and finally found what was, in his opinion, the best solution: Bartlett TM-125C floor microphones.
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ORANGE, CA – Radian Audio Engineering named Mark Pinske executive director of sales and marketing. Pinske has over 20 years of experience in the pro audio industry and is known for his seven-year association with Frank Zappa as his chief recording engineer.
Read More »Please check back at a later date for the video featuring Bon Jovi FOH engineer David Eisenhauer.
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KALAMAZOO, MI – Valley Family Church recently completed construction on its new 85,000 square foot addition. AVI/SPL specified a sound system that included ISP Technologies' LLC High Definition line array system.
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Danny Leake runs a company in Chicago called Urban Guerilla Engineers, through which he runs, as he says, "all my sound stuff" – both studio and live work. For almost two decades, that live work has included FOH duties with the legendary Stevie Wonder.
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It is not often that in the same three-hour period you get to see the promise of the future and a living example of the greatness that got us here in the first place. That probably sounds confusing, so allow me to do what I do…
Read More »Live sound courses have been added to the curricula at many major pro audio education facilities in the last several years. The one at the Curb College at Belmont University, in Nashville, seems to be taking it a step further, though. Clear As A Bell (CAAB) Audio is the name of the SR provider based at the school that's staffed and operated by a dozen students enrolled in Curb College's Audio Engineering Technology Advanced Sound Reinforcement course.
Read More »In the Oct. 2008 issue of FOH, I relayed a story about an experience I had at the Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston Ore. The long and short of that story was that while attempting a sound check, the area was hit with a nasty hailstorm and winds upwards of 70 miles per hour. The net result was that the tarp blew off the front-of-house position – including a Yamaha PM4000 – and the bucket of the 4K became a bucket full of water.
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Time alignment is a very important yet often overlooked aspect of system setup and tuning. A correctly time-aligned system has many benefits, including more even coverage where two sound sources overlap and a more even response across acoustical crossover points. It can give the cheapest of systems a couple decibels more in the area where engineers tend to like them most: bass frequencies. So let's take a look at subwoofer time alignment.
Read More »I sat down to write this month's installment when I realized that we have not only entered a New Year but we are now in the second decade of the new millennium. Whatever happened to that first decade, I ask myself.
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The Radial Komit is a 500 series compressor-limiter that simplifies the process of dynamic manipulation while expanding upon creative tone shaping. The design provides flexibility by introducing automatic functions that are both musical and intuitive.
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