A couple month’s ago, FOH’s always-effervescent — and ever-insightful — columnist Baker Lee wrote about the very real problems of substance abuse and addiction that face many members of our community. But that’s not the only obsession many of us are afflicted with. For me, I’m ready to come clean: I’m a total microphone junkie, and I suspect this affliction strikes many of you as well.
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Soundco
Concert Systems Production Group
Venue
Status Liquors & Nightclub parking lot,
Tallahassee FL
Soundcos
Gerard Audio, Live International Ltd and Clearwing Productions
Venue
Toyota Park
Bridgeview IL
For three wild days and nights June 14 to 16, BamaJam 2012 fired up the area just north of Enterprise, AL, with lights, video displays, music and sound… plenty of sound. Located on the 1,600-acre grounds of BamaJam Farms, 35,000-plus music enthusiasts from all over the Southeastern U.S. converged and revelled to the sounds of Tim McGraw, Eric Church, the Zac Brown Band, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock and a long list of additional artists. With three stages spread across the area — one of which was a double stage that alternated acts on each half — along with a wealth of lighting and video displays, the logistical and technical aspects of bringing BamaJam 2012 to life were nothing short of massive.
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X Games — the World Cup of extreme sports — may not have as much music as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Coachella, Outside Lands or any of the other seemingly endless seasonal music festivals that line up every summer like inbound traffic over LAX. But it does share with many of them a lengthy pedigree — this year’s Summer X Games that took place at downtown Los Angeles’ 27-acre LA Live campus from June 29 to July 1 was the 18th consecutive event — and, like several of them, it’s a fast-growing franchise.
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One mic to hear them all… if only that were possible. Area miking is an art, but also a curse in sound reinforcement circles. A choir, an orchestra and the occasional bluegrass group who saw it on O Brother, Where Art Thou? Not a good idea. But moving to the topic at hand, here are some things to think about when miking a group.
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When FRONT of HOUSE’s intrepid editor George Petersen suggested I write on the topic of loudspeaker horns, I was immediately interested, and a little overwhelmed. Improving horn behavior is a topic of personal interest. Discussing the operation of horns is a huge subject, and the underlying math that describes how horns operate is complex and poorly understood — even by horn designers. Despite these challenges, horns are too interesting a topic to ignore.
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LDS Temple Complex
Oakland, CA
Completed nearly 50 years ago, the 1,800-seat Interstake Auditorium at the LDS (Mormon) Temple complex in Oakland, CA, was overdue for a new sound system. To address challenges including strong, focused echoes, somewhat heightened ambient noise levels and a relatively low ceiling, Ken Dickensheets, CTO/principal consultant, Dickensheets Design Associates, Austin, TX, specified a new RoomMatch array module system from Bose Professional Systems. Marshall Industries of Salt Lake City handled the installation.
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