The Electro-Voice Tour X series of loudspeakers sits in that middle ground of live sound reinforcement speaker—higher-end than most MI boxes, but not something you are going to find on tour riders either. In other words, great for clubs and bands in a van as well as local soundcos.
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In the early days of audio, the “power matching” technique of creating 600-ohm source impedances to drive 600-ohm load impedances was a standard design practice. The topic of impedance matching used to be a prime teaching topic in decades past. The reason for learning impedance matching was that many sound sources, signal processors, consoles, and amplifiers were borrowed from fields other than sound reinforcement, and the necessity of knowing the input and output impedances was critical to get the system to play nicely together.
Read More »Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a microphone freak, so any activity involving microphones is at the top of the gear lust chart for me. There are three thing you cannot have enough of: money, microphones and well, you can guess what else.
Read More »It’s a cold, hard winter for the meetings and events business. Things are just plain rough out there. According to a survey by the industry trade group Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and American Express that was released last month, seven percent of business meetings already scheduled for 2009 have been canceled, and that number may be an underestimate. We are hearing from our clients and vendors that cancellations often outnumber actual shows, and the recent economic indicators show no sign of relief.
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Asked to sum up the role of FOH mixer at the Grammy Awards, Mike Abbott, the long-time audio coordinator for the show, characteristically first quantifies it, then wraps it in a neat aphorism. “Twenty-four bands, 24 guest mixers, 24 managers, 24 agents — you have to be the Henry Kissinger of pro audio,” he says.
Read More »In this month’s “The Biz” column, FOH reader and guest contributor Floyd Dilman pens a piece titled “Who Will Speak For the Live Event Industry?” It’s a good question and one that becomes more crucial to find an answer to by the day.
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To quote Gordon Gekko from the 1987 Oliver Stone movie, Wall Street: “The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It’s bullshit. You got 90 percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you buddy? It’s the free market. And you’re a part of it. You’ve got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal, I’ve still got a lot to teach you.”
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Swearing In Ceremony
Talk with MSI on handling the swearing in ceremony were ongoing throughout the year, but the contract wasn’t finalized until the end of November, says Robert Goldstein, president of Maryland Sound International (MSI). The physical install started January 2.
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When I walked into the arena in Ontario, Calif. to hook up with the team of Big Mick Hughes and Paul Owen (both of whom have been working with Metallica longer than some of the younger crew members have even been alive).
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James Elizondo has been a member and staffer at the Las Vegas International Church for eight years now. Over the years, he has seen four different PAs go up, including the recently completed move from D.A.S. Aero 48s to a hang that includes D.A.S. Aero 28as, Variant 25as and ST 215 subs.
The latest system is quite an upgrade from the first PA he found when originally attending services. “It was homemade from a guy in Reno,” Elizondo starts. “He specialized in car audio and he made something like I’ve never seen before, it was the most gigantic looking contraption of a speaker you’ve ever seen."
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Ahhhh. Salt Lake in late November. Just cold enough to be miserable but without all that crisp white snow to create a beautiful scene to distract you from the fact that you are freezing your ass off. I’m not a Coldplay fan (are there any young bands out thee who actually write HOOKS anymore?) but there was something going one here that made it worth the eight-hour drive—besides the fact they are my daughter’s favorite band and it was her birthday.
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Proel is on of those nice Italian pro-audio companies that creates nice electronics and speakers, but gets very little notice in North America. So when I received a HPD3000 power amplifier for review, I had to hold my skeptic hat in my hands until I could see this quad channel power amplifier in action.
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