The Band Perry
Sound Cos
Stewart Independent/8th Day Sound
Venue
Nutter Center, Wright State University,
Dayton, OH
Big NAMM Changes for 2018 – and You
Within the audio community, the major topic of discussion at this year’s Winter NAMM show was the new Anaheim Convention Center North Hall, which is slated for completion later this year and will expand the show’s exhibit space by 20 percent.
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Live Sound Products Shine at Rainy NAMM 2017
Okay, I was wrong in last month’s “Editor’s Note” (FOH, Jan. 2017, page 4) where I believed a long-range 10-day forecast from The Weather Channel predicting a warm, dry Winter NAMM show. However, in 2017, we live in uncertain times, and after a seven-year drought, the usual sunny January skies of Southern California turned into a deluge from Jan. 19-22, 2017. Yet a few raindrops couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm for some 100,000 audio and music pros that descended on the Anaheim Convention Center for four days of fun, new technologies and new products.
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Mixing Switchfoot’s ‘Looking for America’ Tour
Like so many rock bands, the Switchfoot story started off as guitarist Jon Foreman, his bassist brother Tim Foreman and drummer Chad Butler began rocking out in their San Diego garage. Armed with surfboards and cheap electric guitars, the plan was to finish college at the University of California San Diego, but tempted with an indie record deal from RE:Think records, they set out on the road — and never looked back.
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Jacob Collier at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium
Acclaimed British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier rose to Internet fame with his split-screen YouTube videos, covering some classic songs in his own multi-faceted, original style. Since then he has collaborated with some of the world’s great musicians, as well as continuing to develop his own unique sound — gaining a well-deserved reputation for exceptional musicianship and musicality.
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Inside Seven Recent House of Worship Projects
Achieving great sound in a house of worship setting is fraught with challenges. Worship services may range from simple piano and/or organ with voices to high-SPL contemporary music at rock concert levels; or with many churches, it may be a combination of the two, serving two different congregations. Unfortunately, few house of worship sanctuaries are built with acoustical needs in mind, and often feature highly reverberant spaces with ample use of wood, glass, marble and other acoustically reflective materials.
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Nightclub Spotlight: The Saddle Rack
The largest country music club in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Saddle Rack, was founded by Hank Guenther and opened on Aug 13, 1976 in San Jose, CA. The club prospered for some 25 years, but the astronomical rise of real estate prices in the Silicon Valley eventually swayed Guenther to close the club in 2001 and sell the 6.5-acre parcel of land where it stood.
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Mini-Size Line Array Systems
Big sounds can come in small packages, as evidenced by the products in this month’s Buyers Guide, focused on compact line array systems having LF… Read More »Mini-Size Line Array Systems
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Neutrik’s speakON Connector Turns 30
A major breakthrough for the live industry came in 1987, with Neutrik’s debut of the speakON created specifically for speaker connections. A new EU European Low Voltage Directive required that any connector capable of carrying more than 50 volts must be protected against inadvertent contact. Obviously, other connectors — such as banana plugs and 1/4-inch styles — did not meet this requirement.
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CAD Audio CADLive D88 Kick Drum Microphone
Once mainly focused on the contracting/installation business (through its Astatic Commercial Audio Products division), CAD Professional Microphones was launched in 1988 as the pro audio division of Astatic to design and manufacture microphones for recording studio and live sound users.
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