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Latin Grammys Spice Up with Sennheiser

Latin Grammys Spice Up with Sennheiser

HOUSTON — Sennheiser wireless equipment were used at the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards show, with performers, presenters and RF technology to deliver the live television broadcast from Houston's Toyota Center. Sennheiser microphones also captured the rhythmic pulse at the heart of the musical performances on the show, and were central to one of the show's highlights, a three-song medley by longtime Sennheiser user Gloria Estefan, who was honored with the 2008 Latin Recording Academy "Person of the Year" award.

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Adamson Systems

Brock Adamson

Who: Brock Adamson, president, CEO and head designer of Adamson Systems Engineering.

What: “What do you think?”

When: Founded in 1983.

Fulltime employees: 55.

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James Welsh & Sam Thompson

James Welsh
Owner, Engineer
Welsh Sound
Kearneysville, WV
www.welshsound.com
304-676-3208
[email protected]

Services Provided: Full production services — sound, lighting, live multitrack recording, staging and rigging.

Clients: Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys, The Demon Beat, Seventh Seal, The Fox Hunt, Seldom Scene, Los Pleneros de la 21, Viento de Agua

Quote: “Friends don’t let friends wrap cables!”

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Reducing Ins and Outs

A couple of Decembers ago, I remember loading in for a club gig. The club manager was not happy with the necessary evil of loading in the production gear through a side door, not because of the choice of entrance, but because it took a half hour to complete the task.

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dbx db10 and db12 Direct Boxes

The dbx brand now offers the dB10 passive direct box and the dBb12 active direct box. While not compact at 5.82” x 5.44” x 2.20,” the direct boxes are similar in size to the higher quality direct box offerings and are fully featured for the variety of needs for both performers and sound people. I give kudos to dbx for using steel over aluminum to help block magnetic fields from penetration into the sensitive audio circuits. This is especially important as direct boxes are often mounted on instrument amplifiers, which have AC power transformers nearby.

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AKG WMS 450 Wireless Microphone System with the C519ML MicroMic

(Ed. Note: We took a bit of a different approach on this one. Having fronted a horn band for more than 20 years, I am well-aware of the difficulty of making a good horn sound right in the system with the mics generally available on your typical house gig. It is why I carry my own horn mics on every gig where I am doing the muso thing. So, for this review, we put the mic in the hands of a top-notch sax player who knows his way around a console and then got some feedback from the sound guys on some of the gigs where he used it. Here is what they had to say.)

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ACIR Pro: Not Just Backline Anymore

ACIR Professional Grand Opening (L to R): Yamaha’s Chip Allen, ACIRS owners Ed DiBona, John Grasso, Tom Young and Yamaha District Manager Bob Quinones

Eddie DiBona takes only a second to explain why he jumped from a regular hotel and casino gig to the land of self-employment. “They exploded The Sands?”, he answers with a laugh. “No, I’m kidding.”

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Heil Sound Custom Shop Opens with a Cause

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — It started innocently, a couple of red PR 22s for Jada Pinkett Smith, a custom Heil Fin for Jack White and the Pink Pearl mics benefiting the Susan B. Koman Cancer Center. And then the “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” moment arrived at Heil Sound. That moment, when the Camo PR 22 was designed and built, officially created Heil Sound’s new custom shop in its Fairview Heights, IL factory.

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Shure Announces Rebates for 700 MHz Wireless Systems

NILES, Ill. — Shure Incorporated has announced a rebate program of up to $1,000 for the trade-in of Shure 700 MHz frequency band (698-806 MHz) wireless systems and other related components purchased before Feb. 1, 2007, and for any other manufacturers’ qualifying 700 MHz frequency band wireless systems and their related components.

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