DALY CITY, CA — Blake Suib, a veteran monitor mix engineer with 25 years of experience, received a call last July to design a live sound system for singer and guitarist John Mayer. Suib specified a the Digidesign VENUE console for the gig.
Read More »Hi, this Mark Amundson, FOHmag technical editor and sometime wizard of knobs. Please feel free to continue this running dialog on my Theory and Practice topics, biz topics, or anything related to the live sound production profession. To kick things off, I am looking for your thoughts on the state of power distro gear used in our profession.
Read More »It would be easy to write NSCA off as a place for straight install guys to get the latest scoop on security systems and outdoor speakers built to look like rocks. Easy, but a mistake. While the show floor itself could have been more active (at times it seemed like green “Exhibitor” badges outnumbered all others combined by a ratio of about three-toone), the educational and training sessions were, by all reports, full, and the demo rooms were humming pretty much continuously. Let’s take a look at what was new starting — in a novel switch from how we usually do things — in the middle of the signal chain.
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LOS ANGELES — Three seasons ago the Hollywood Bowl underwent both a complete rebuild of its band shell and installation of a full L-ACOUSTICS amplifier and loudspeaker system, but understanding that precision sound is a process of continual refinement, the audio crew at the Bowl has made a number of changes over the past season — a process that was initiated by creating a more detailed model of the facility in SOUNDVISION, L-ACOUSTICS' 3D acoustical modeling software.
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OLD LYME, CT — Celtic Woman, an ensemble show celebrating traditional and contemporary Irish music, features vocal and instrumental soloists, musicians, a choir and dancers and is currently on a North American tour with 40 channels of Sennheiser wireless microphones and personal monitors plus dozens of wired Evolution 900 series and Neumann backline and instrument microphones.
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BLOOMFIELD, CT — Bloomfield, Conn's First Baptist Church's sound reinforcement system was never felt to be an ideal complement for its 3,000-seat sanctuary, so the church installed a new sound system featuring a Soundcraft Vi6 digital live sound console at front-of-house paired with an analog 48-channel Soundcraft MH3 running monitors.
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ANN ARBOR, MI — Aerial Enterprises, Inc, of Whitmore Lake, Mich, deployed an Electro-Voice PA to Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (March 15) and Brazilian guitarist/singer Gilberto Gil (March 16).
Read More »ALAMEDA, CA and CAMBRIDGE, UK — Clear-Com, a provider of professional communication systems, has relocated to Alameda, adjacent to San Francisco, Calif.
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NEW YORK — Fashion Week went on tour for the first time this year, and Houston's LD Systems deployed their Electro-Voice XLD line array for FashionWeekLive, which showcased creations from two dozen of the industry's top designers. Designed to bring the world of high fashion to a mainstream audience, the event was delivered with a decidedly rock n roll & hip-hop vibe.
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TAMPA, FL — The St Pete Times Forum, home to the NHL's 2004 Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning, recently installed an L-ACOUSTICS system composed of 66 dV-DOSC enclosures, a dozen dV-SUB low-frequency extension boxes, eight SB218 sub-bass cabinets and four ARCS boxes, all powered by LA48a amplifiers.
Read More »SUNRISE, FL — Martin Professional and High End Systems, two major lighting companies, have opted not to attend LDI 2007 in Orlando, and Vari-Lite has decided to decrease their presence. How does this affect audio? The recent addition of the ET Live "shootout" has drawn a fair number of audio providers to LDI.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA — At the annual Harman Pro Group rep and distributors conference in Huntington Beach, Calif, Harman Po North America publicly recognized Dobbs Stanford Corporation as Soundcraft USA's Rep of the Year for 2006. The announcement and award presentation were made by Soundcraft USA's national sales manager, Tom Der, and Harman Pro North America's vice president of sales, Nick Owen.
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