Every month, I try to write something that will be useful to all of you out there, whether you volunteer your services at your house of worship or you mix and install worship sound systems as a part or all of your income. This month I would also like to include those of you who work with live sound, but not necessarily in the house of worship sound arena.
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As I am writing this article, it is that time of year once again. As you are reading this article, that time of year is already on the wane. But despite my inability to plan ahead so that you might be able to read a timely piece of poignant journalism, let me be one of the last to say "Happy New Year."
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As ranked by Billboard Magazine, based on revenue.
1. U2
Sound Co: Clair
Crew
FOH Engineer: Joe O'Herlihy
Monitor Mixers: Dave Skaff, Niall Slevin, Alistair McMillan
System Engineers: Jo Ravitch, David Coyle
Monitor System Engineers: Chris Fulton, Jason O'Dell
Techs: Tom Ford, Jennifer Smola, Benjamin Blocker, Joel Merrill, Kelsey Gingrich
Danny Leake runs a company in Chicago called Urban Guerilla Engineers, through which he runs, as he says, "all my sound stuff" – both studio and live work. For almost two decades, that live work has included FOH duties with the legendary Stevie Wonder.
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It is not often that in the same three-hour period you get to see the promise of the future and a living example of the greatness that got us here in the first place. That probably sounds confusing, so allow me to do what I do…
Read More »Live sound courses have been added to the curricula at many major pro audio education facilities in the last several years. The one at the Curb College at Belmont University, in Nashville, seems to be taking it a step further, though. Clear As A Bell (CAAB) Audio is the name of the SR provider based at the school that's staffed and operated by a dozen students enrolled in Curb College's Audio Engineering Technology Advanced Sound Reinforcement course.
Read More »In the Oct. 2008 issue of FOH, I relayed a story about an experience I had at the Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston Ore. The long and short of that story was that while attempting a sound check, the area was hit with a nasty hailstorm and winds upwards of 70 miles per hour. The net result was that the tarp blew off the front-of-house position – including a Yamaha PM4000 – and the bucket of the 4K became a bucket full of water.
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Time alignment is a very important yet often overlooked aspect of system setup and tuning. A correctly time-aligned system has many benefits, including more even coverage where two sound sources overlap and a more even response across acoustical crossover points. It can give the cheapest of systems a couple decibels more in the area where engineers tend to like them most: bass frequencies. So let's take a look at subwoofer time alignment.
Read More »I sat down to write this month's installment when I realized that we have not only entered a New Year but we are now in the second decade of the new millennium. Whatever happened to that first decade, I ask myself.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, defines the word Soul as: "The principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part."
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Once I was supplying our Meyer system for a speaking engagement where the guest speaker was the Prime Minister of our country, Brian Mulroney. It was the Cattlemen's Barbecue held at Poplar Hill, Ontario. Mr. Mulroney was one of those gifted public speakers who is able to talk and hold the audience in the palm of his hand. He talked and everyone just stopped and listened.
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In the Road Test you are about to read, I am combining a review of the PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 digital mixing console with the PreSonus Studio One Pro software. Either one of these products warrants its own review, but I had the opportunity to use them together. So, here goes.
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