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BBE DS24 Speaker Processor

BBE DS24 Speaker Processor

The BBE DS24 speaker processor intrigued me because of its low cost (around $299.95 street) and its professional looks and performance. The BBE name is famous for its Sonic Maximizer processors, a hotly contested piece of gear that some engineers dismiss as a crutch and others swear by as a gig saver. Now BBE is putting its substantial experience behind universally accepted gear, including equalization and DSP speaker processing that may have even the skeptics taking a good hard look….

 

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Good Ol’ Boys Grow Up

North Carolina’s SE Systems Has Grown from a Local Staple to National Tours for Select Clients

When Cliff Miller was a touring musician, he had many things going through his mind. Sure there was the tuning of his guitar and the song the band was playing, but Miller’s mind would occasionally drift to how the band was sounding out in the house. It was the early ‘70s, and Miller, who was playing guitar with Doc and Merle Watson, had already started to think about starting a regional sound company.

In the nearly 35 years since then, Miller and a team of employees and associates have built SE Systems into one of the best regional sound compa-nies in North Carolina. Headquartered in Greensboro, SE Systems is a full-service production company that provides audio, lighting and staging and boasts retail outlets in Greensboro and Charlotte.

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Seventh Annual Parnelli Awards

Toasting the Best of the Live Event Industry

The Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Fla., was the site of the 2007 Parnelli Awards, but inside the ceremony ballroom it looked like Hawaii. Large portions of the crowd arrived decked out in their finest Hawaiian shirts, and FOH Editor Bill Evans abandoned his usual sandals for signature purple Bob Heil custom Converse high-tops. The hundreds in attendance constituted a Who’s Who of players in the live event industry, and whether they were wearing purple shoes or not, they all rose to their feet in honor of Audio Innovator award winner Bob Heil and Lifetime Achievement award winner Gerry Stickells. 

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Ken Bohannon and Scott Steffen of Think Floyd USA

After spending over 20 years playing in bands in the Chicago area and the Midwest bar scene, Mitch Blumfield had a vision. You might even call it a momentary lapse of reason.

A band he was in was doing a lot of covers. However, it was their versions of Pink Floyd songs that were gaining the most attention with their flock. “There was a Pink Floyd Show that we threw in among all the other cover songs that included Aerosmith, Tom Petty and the usual cover fare,” says Blumfield. “Pink Floyd got the most attention.” So, Blumfield did the unthinkable for a single parent with a young daughter. He quit his six-figure marketing gig in downtown Chicago, got a home equity loan and went to work on a dream. 

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Production and Sports Get Equal Billing at Oaks Christian

For a number of years, the name Oaks Christian has evoked exclamations from sports fans across Southern California and beyond. That will hap-pen when your teams dominate the local sports scene, your football team wins the California state championship and your starting quarterback goes to Notre Dame.

Last August, locals who had just seen the new 30,000-square-foot Bedrosian Pavilion, which includes one of the most technologically advanced performing arts centers and media production facilities in the area, uttered the name Oaks Christian in awe. Sports fans were especially pleased be-cause the performing arts center doubles as a gymnasium and will be used for the school’s basketball and volleyball teams. That these two venues are housed in the same two-story building on a 15,000-square-foot plot is equally amazing. 

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Rob Treloar

FOH Audio Engineer
The Live Group
Middletown, CT
860.538.2951
[email protected]
www.thelivegroup.com
Services Provided: FOH audio engineer



Clients: Queen Latifah, Steve Tyrell, Lew Soloff, Manhattan Brass

Quote: “Does anyone remember a proper sound check?” 

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OK, so there I was, all gakked up and sitting in the back of the bus

An engineer friend of mine, who is now retired from the business, started his audio career in the early 1970s and spent most of the ensuing 30 years traveling throughout the world mixing front of house and monitors. As well as being an excellent engineer, he is endowed with a charismatic charm, wit and a talent for networking. He was in with the rock ‘n’ roll elite and always worked with top name acts in the business.

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Mixing with the Wrong Appendage

Last weekend — post turkey/triptophan-induced stupor — I had the absolute pleasure of going to a Tony Bennett show here in Las Vegas that was mixed by recent Parnelli award winner Tom Young. After the show, he took us backstage to meet the boss (not something I generally go for, but it was not like it was some wannabe kiddie celeb. Tony Bennett is a f*&%ing legend) and then, cigar and diet coke in hand at the bar, my wife and I hung out with Tom and just shot the shit for a good hour or so.

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We Lied

We told you that we were going to lay off the discussion of wireless audio technology for a while. Well, we lied. It seems like developments in the wireless world are happening so fast that by the time the ink dries around here, there’s more news to report. So this month, we shine the spotlight on X2 Digital Wireless Systems and Audio-Technica. X2 Digital (www.x2digitalwireless.com) — with a bit of help from Audio-Technica — has just augmented its XDR Series of Digital UHF wireless systems with four new products: the XDR952 (omni lavalier microphone with A-T MT830-X); the XDR953 (cardioid headset mic with ATM75-X); the XDR954 (cardioid lavalier mic with A-T MT831-X); and the XDR957 (clip-on in-strument mic with A-T Pro35-X). 

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Extended Stays

When Celine Dion began a five-year performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 2002, it certainly didn’t seem like a signal that the touring concert business was about to undergo any major changes. Dion’s is a talent perhaps best suited to a home theatre rather than sequential one-night stands. And she certainly seemed to make the right real estate deal: Her 700 shows in the past five years generated more than $500 million, according to the Wall Street Journal, with Elton John pulling in pro rata numbers for his interim Caesars stints when Dion took breaks. 

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Location, Location, Location

Brian: So Ken, I’ve just recently moved, and I’m finding myself dealing with a new frustration. All of my equipment is still 10 minutes up the road from my old house, which puts it about an hour and a half from my new home. I’ve got to get my shop closer to where I’m living now, but I don’t have a nice three-car garage, and I certainly don’t have the money for some big commercial space. Have you got any thoughts on a good way to store lots of equipment? 

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