Andrzej Piaseczny Winter Tour
Soundco
Airpol Sound & Light
Venue
Congress Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Andrzej Piaseczny Winter Tour
Nitro Circus Live Tour
Soundco
Capital Sound
Venue
Various (European tour)
POP NYE
Soundco
U.S. Audio & Lighting
Venue
Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA
Good…Better…Best!
I recently got an interesting letter (well, email) here from a reader who had a simple, yet thoughtful inquiry. In the message, he stated that he felt he was a pretty good sound reinforcement engineer, but was wondering if I could offer some advice on making the quantum leap from being “pretty good” to becoming a great engineer. The answer, I’m afraid isn’t so simple — if it was, I’d simply write it out and have it printed up in bags of audio fortune cookies with everything you need to know in a soundbite or two.
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Super Bowl Gets Top Sound to Match its Ratings
It never got as cold as predicted, but that didn’t make the Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show any easier.
It was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Bruno Mars, the diminutive ball of vocal dynamite whose ability to avoid controversy made him the NFL’s pick for the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVIII, delivered an estimated 115.3 million viewers for the Feb. 2 event. They watched him and his hand-picked “special guests,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers rip though a 12-minute set at MetLife Stadium, which was prepared for sub-freezing temperatures but at showtime, Mars’ gold lamé jacket may have been plenty against what turned out to be an almost pleasant evening, with temps around the 40°F. range.
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House of Worship Installation Showcase
Redemption Church, Gilbert, AZ
When Redemption Church recently committed to an expansion and retrofit of their multipurpose conference and worship center, they wanted an audio, video and lighting system that would provide a truly meaningful experience for their members.
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Medium-Format Line Arrays
The massive, “big gun” 12- and 15-inch line arrays typically grab most of the attention in the pro audio press, but sometimes it’s the “little guy” mid-sized boxes that are the workhorses of the industry. This month, we turn our attention to line arrays based around 8-inch woofers, which are more compact than their 10- and 12-inch cousins and larger than the “mini” 4- to 6-inch enclosures. Yet, like Goldilocks’ preferences, these 8-inch wonders are often “just right” — whether for smaller gigs, club/theater/H.O.W. installs or used as front/down-fills, under-balcony reinforcement, delay lines — the list goes on and on.
To download a PDF of the Feb. 2014 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE
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One Woofer or Two?
Typically, most professional loudspeakers have been comprised of a low frequency driver and a high frequency driver paired together in the manner common to speakers on sticks. Today though, manufacturers have branched out into many different driver orientations in the search for better performance, better coverage, more output and reduced footprint.
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Allen & Heath Qu-16
Allen & Heath has built a good reputation and become popular with their larger digital consoles. Now they have taken a lot of the technology that has served them well with their iLive and GLD series mixing boards and incorporated it into the Qu-16 (and recently introduced 24-channel Qu-24) consoles.
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CORRECTION: Meyer Sound LYON Linear Line Array
LAS VEGAS — Shortly after the Feb. 2014 issue of FRONT of HOUSE magazine went to press, the staff noticed a flaw with the graphic accompanying the Tech Preview feature on Meyer Sound’s new LYON Linear Line Array, which was printed on page 42. Meyer Sound had provided a correct image; the image was accidentally changed due to a production error.
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Meyer Sound LYON Linear Line Array
The newest addition to the LEO speaker family from Meyer Sound, the self-powered LYON linear sound reinforcement system officially debuts this month at the I.S.E. Convention in Amsterdam. Incorporating the technology of the LEO family in a lighter, more compact package, the LYON line array loudspeaker system extends the advantages of highly linear self-powered systems to a broader range of venues and applications.
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Rock of Ages Tour Gets Masque Sound Support
NEW YORK — Sound designer Craig Cassidy turned to Masque Sound to help create an arena rock sound for the touring musical, Rock of Ages, which features the music of Journey, Night Ranger, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Poison, Asia, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and other 1980s hit-making bands. Along with DiGiCo consoles at FOH (SD 10) and monitors (SD 8), Masque Sound provided tower line array elements including Meyer Sound MICA and 600 HP subs. Masque Sound also provided Sennheiser 5212 transmitters, matching 1046 receivers and coupled them with DPA 4066 omnidirectional headset mics along with an assist with frequency coordination.
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