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Sound Decisions Gives One Lord Sunday a Boost

Sound Decisions provided Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers for One Lord Sunday, an annual event staged at the Wasilla, Alaska Multi-Use Sports Complex that brings 4,000 congregants from 20 churches and dignitaries including the governor of Alaska together for a mixed-style worship service.

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Marc Carolan and Muse: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Marc Carolan was having a rough day. The Irish-born engineer who has spent the past nine years mixing Muse, in venues ranging from stadiums to theatres and headlining to opening for U2 on the 360° tour is not used to the dry Vegas climate or the blasting air conditioning inside the Mandalay Bay Event Center, where his clients have a sold-out show in a touring season that has been very tough for a lot of acts. Not that he does not like the weather. "Ireland is great," he says. "If you like rain. We have a saying there that our two favorite days in Ireland are Christmas and summer."

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Grand Ole Opry Goes Mobile After Flooding

Imagine that after years of banging boxes on one-show-a-night tours, you land in a venue and manage to stay there for three decades. Everything is where you left it the show before, from input lines to coffee mugs. All you need to do is show up and put the key in the ignition.

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K-array Redline Series

I think I speak for most of us in the live sound biz (especially those of us who use powered speaker boxes) when I say we would all like more sound pressure level and more wattage in a smaller package. Years ago I joked about having speaker enclosures the size of a pack of cigarettes. I also expressed my desire to mix my shows in California while I was sitting on a beach in Cabo. Well, K-array has brought me closer to that goal with their Redline Series speakers.

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Crest Audio X Series Mixers

Well… This time we have quite the pair. We will be trying to destroy a Crest X20R and X20RM. I got the call for this month's review and thought I was reviewing amps, but was surprised to open boxes and see that they contained X Racks.

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Optimizing the Octagon at First Nazareth Baptist Church

Stepping into the octagon-shaped First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C. may not have been as intimidating as stepping into a similarly-shaped cage for mixed martial arts. But the church's layout still posed an interesting challenge for Frank Ward, owner of Acoustical Design: to install an AV system that would optimize the experience of worshippers listening to sermons, the choir and to video presentations.

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The Youth Pastor

A long time ago and in a nice Texas town called Austin the production company I managed was doing about six stages at SXSW. These were spread out over several miles, and we maxed out every piece of gear and every audio engineer we could find.

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It’s All in the Family at Onstage Systems

Hyacinth and Chris Belcher of Dallas-based Onstage Systems

"Onstage Systems began in 1978 as Dallas Backup, Inc. Our parents, Charles and Vickie Belcher, started the company as a backline company," comments Hyacinth Belcher of Dallas-based Onstage Systems, a company she has run with her brother Chris for the last several years. "They tried everything they could think of to get us to see the light and not do it," she laughs, "but we love it; I can't imagine doing anything else."

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