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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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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ANAHEIM, CA — A total of 96,129 music and audio pros were registered for the 2014 edition of Winter NAMM to see the latest from 1,533 exhibiting companies. One of those attendees was FRONT of HOUSE editor George Petersen, who had a much easier time traveling to the show than others arriving from snow-blasted regions of the U.S. His show report, which is also featured in the Feb. 2014 issue of FOH Magazine, follows.
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Part 1 of this anecdotal tale relating our experiences in Lagos, Nigeria (FOH, Jan. 2014, page 39) ended at the moment we discovered that the Mariah Carey production crew had become secondary players in a turf war between the Eko Hotel special events staff and an outside vendor. The conflict over which party could best provide the stage sound equipment and band gear had caused our production schedule to succumb as collateral damage. It was a struggle that the better-prepared hotel staff was most certainly going to win. The outside supplier was well intentioned but very much out of his depth — obviously under-experienced and woefully under-supplied.
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The halftime show at the Super Bowl has been a music extravaganza in recent years, one with its own set of cycles. After Janet Jackson’s 2004 “wardrobe malfunction,” we went into a wave of classic rock acts, including McCartney, Springsteen and The Who, followed by a round of hip-pop with Madonna, Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo Green. This year finds Bruno Mars the star of the halftime show, seemingly a continuation of the last two years’ trend with (only slightly) more testosterone.
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Whether you’re a musician, a sound engineer or a major league baseball player, everyone has a bad day once in a while. But in these twenty-teens, technology has reached the point where there’s little excuse for bad sound. I just mixed a show at a major casino stop on the East Coast. Names and locations are withheld to prevent the guilty from personal injury and humiliation.
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One of the greatest things about being the head of the audio department at a large or medium sized church is that there are usually a lot of people from the congregation who want to volunteer their services in the audio department. One of the worst things about being the head of the audio department at a large or medium size church is that there are a lot of people in the congregation who want to volunteer their services in the audio department.
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The doldrums are upon us and the wind has gone out of the sails of our good ship audio as we drift listlessly in a sea of calm. We have powered ourselves at a breakneck pace out of the old year and into the new and, as always, our charted course delivers us directly into a dead calm where we will drift for approximately two months or so while our live sound industry moves forward at a languid pace. Although the newer seafarers might be surprised by the seasonal torpor, the more experienced salty dogs among us know the drill and prepare accordingly. Arrgh matey, that just isn’t true and you know it!
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Welcome to 2014. I’m not sure where 2013 went, but around here, time moves much faster than 1,126 feet/second, and it seems like yesterday that I was penning some kind of welcome address to 2013. This is always the time when journalists everywhere reflect on the past year, but I’m mostly gonna skip that and get to the chase. That said, you don’t want to miss our annual look back at the “Top Tours of 2013” in our expanded “Showtime” edition starting on page 22. (Click HERE to scroll down to the tour listings)
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Dave Rat on EAW’s Latest Line Array System
It’s no secret that Rat Sound has a long association with Eastern Acoustic Works. Company principals Dave Rat and Jon Monson worked closely with EAW in the creation of the successful MicroWedge stage monitors line and then contributed throughout the research and development process for Anya, EAW’s latest line array product.
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It’s a big, big band, and somebody’s got to mic it. And that someone is James “Jimbo” Neal.
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With a contemporary program featuring a strong music emphasis, Northcrest Baptist Church (Meridian, MS) has a wide range of offerings including children’s, youth and adult choirs, plus a variety of mission opportunities and worship programs. Recognizing the importance of a quality sound reinforcement and its ability to deliver a high level of speech intelligibility and music reproduction characteristics, the church recently upgraded with a new loudspeaker system from WorxAudio Technologies.
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