A famous engineer on a Federation Starship once said “Captin, I canna’ change the laws of physics…”
Scotty may have been talking about the amount of time he needed to restart the warp engines, but if he was an audio engineer, he might have been referring to time alignment. Sound travels really s-l-o-w compared to the speed of light, the speed of electricity and certainly warp speed.
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Its effects are commonly misunderstood. Its importance is criminally underrated. It is the first thing on the chopping block in any church install or retrofit. You guessed it — acoustics. How something that is so important and has such a tremendous impact on the performance of a sound system gets put on the chopping block is a mystery as old as time. People like us — audio geeks, audio nerds — we get it. Lay people rarely understand until it is too late.
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During the course of a recent conversation with one of my shop guys, the discussion turned to analog consoles, bi-amplification, crossovers and crossover points. I was talking to him about how one could control the audio from the amplifiers or crossover either by turning down a given field or by moving the crossover point. He admitted to me that he “missed being a part of the whole analog thing,” but would really like to learn about it, since he does find it “fascinating.”
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No, this month I am not launching into a heated diatribe about restrictions on the freedom of the press, as outlined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Not that I won’t be addressing this topic in some future issue, but at least for the time being, let’s examine a quite different “Free Press” theme, this being the accessibility of FRONT of HOUSE to help promote your company and/or products.
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Arguably the best-dressed person working FOH today, Ben Monroe cuts a dapper figure in the three-piece suits he is known for wearing. Having just completed a 44-gig tour with Mary J. Blige, Monroe was in good spirits, coming off two tours with Blige that he calls “hands down, the best in my life.” A big statement from someone who’s been in the biz for 40 years now.
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