The QLX-D is Shure’s latest addition to its growing line of digital wireless microphone systems and utilizes some of the technology developed for the company’s higher-end Axient products and ULX-D Series to good effect. Shure has successfully been able to package the QLX-D system in an economical version with user-friendly controls.
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Cerwin-Vega has introduced a new line of powered portable speakers for use in professional sound reinforcement. The P-Series consists of the full range P1000X, a bi-amped two-way speaker with a 10-inch woofer and a hemi-conical horn. The larger P1500X is a 15-inch version. The series also includes the P1800SX 18-inch subwoofer. All are covered by a three-year warranty — a nice touch.
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It sounds like the start of a joke, but the question “What connector do you use with a wireless mic?” is serious business indeed. There’s no connector between a handheld wireless mic and the receiver. However, as soon as you bring beltpack/bodypack transmitters in the equation, all bets are off. And while not obvious to the general audio community, people who regularly work with lavalier and headworn mics are well aware of the issue here.
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Dynamic changes are equally important to the live performance of a musical piece as the notes, rhythm and instrumental choices. Allow me to preface this expression of opinion by enumerating particular personality traits that have influenced me in making some decisions affecting the direction of my career as an audio engineer.
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In consolidating industries, a natural response is scaling up in order to bring more services and capabilities to the table. That’s certainly what we’re seeing with a recent raft of merger and acquisition activity, with Comcast’s purchase of Time-Warner Cable and AT&T’s move on DirecTV — just the biggest of what’s shaping up to be the busiest deal-making season since 2008, with a reported $2.2 trillion in deals done so far this year globally, a 67-percent increase from the same period last year.
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So you’re loading into a small theater for a gig and a remote truck pulls into the loading area. You’re thinking, “Oh wow, So and So must be recording their show here tomorrow.” You start speaking with the guys from the remote recording company and find out they are there to record tonight’s show to multitrack. But management forgot to send you the memo. After you’re done swearing at the intern who didn’t pull you into the email trail, your blood pressure drops below 200 and you figure it’s time to get to work. So exactly what do you need to do?
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As a worship sound pro, the top three questions asked of me are, first, How can I make my system sound better? Second, How can I make my worship band sound better? And third, How can I make my choir sound better? This month, my friends, we will investigate some suggestions on question three.
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Reading the daily paper is not only dispiriting, but also seems to be an exercise in futility. Watching the news on television is arrantly dismal, and made worse due to the overwhelmingly insipid magazine-style reporting and filler commentary by a surfeit of the so-called experts. The news is depressing enough without a slew of vapid analysts trying to make sense of the rampant senselessness and lunacy of man’s inhumanity to man as well as logically trying to explain the inexplicable enigmas that plague us on a daily basis. The mysteries I refer to are oddities such as the story of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the economy and, of course, our foreign policy, to name a few.
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