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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Z's World Of Church Sound: Sometimes “Live Sound Can Just Be So Live”
Gary Zandstra
01/26/10 06:49 PM,
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A good friend of mine, Mark, is the technical director at a large local church. About a year ago he sent me an email describing the “disaster” he had on a Sunday morning. An excerpt: “To our surprise we had a total audio failure during the first 1/3 of second service yesterday. The audio stuttered for a brief second, came…
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Technologist: Identifying “Go To” Sources For Important & Necessary Microphone Data
Kyle P. Snyder
01/24/10 02:49 PM,
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It’s no secret an engineer’s knowledge of his tools is a source of great power. Any time I’m preparing for a recording session or live sound gig, the first thing I set upon once I determine the makeup of the ensemble and the equipment at my disposal is to determine how best to utilize the available microphones. One of the…
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Technologist: Don’t Come Unglued; Bake A Tape!
Kyle P. Snyder
01/11/10 10:35 AM,
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In late 2008 I was called out by a friend to repair a Studer tape deck; an A827, which I had never used before. While I was very fortunate that the studio owned both the original alignment tape and tentelometer, the original (rather aged and unused) tape shed like crazy because of its storage conditions, and our inability to bake…
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Technologist: The Technologist: Spotlight Versus Pro Tools - The Devil Is In The Details
Kyle P. Snyder
12/28/09 05:23 PM,
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As any Pro Tools user can tell you, the devil is in the details. Making sure that your system is properly optimized makes all the difference, as I found in my month-long battle with Spotlight. It all began when I started having random kernel panics, which seemed to be attributable to a Spotlight conflict. So, I set out to correct…
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Audio Pundit: Ray Kurzweil: How Technology Will Change Humanity In The Next Decade & Beyond
Keith Clark
12/25/09 01:51 PM,
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Happy Holidays! I recently ran across an interesting article in the New York Daily News, authored by Ray Kurzweil, best known to us in the audio/music business for his creation of a new generation of music synthesizers in the mid-1980s, in which he provides his views and predictions on how technology will change and impact our lives over the next…
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Mike Wireless: Recent Wireless Technology Series: Audio-Technica SpectraPulse
Mike Wireless
11/23/09 10:02 AM,
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The SpectraPulse wireless microphone system from Audio-Technica is one of the more interesting products to enter the market. It was announced about two years ago and appears aimed mostly at installed sound applications, specifically boardrooms and courtrooms where operating range is not so much the issue, but data security and ease of use are important. The system represents a fresh…
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Subjective Versus Objective: If It Sounds Good, Is It Good?
Karl Winkler
02/04/10 05:52 PM,
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As with the ever-ongoing debates about “tubes versus transistors,” “analog versus digital” and “Mac versus PC,” there’s not likely to be agreement any time soon about “objective versus subjective” when it comes to sound quality. Extremists in the “Objectivist” camp argue that, “if it can’t be measured, it doesn’t exist” while on the other hand, the “Subjectivist” side firmly backs…
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Technologist: Identifying “Go To” Sources For Important & Necessary Microphone Data
Kyle P. Snyder
01/24/10 02:49 PM,
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It’s no secret an engineer’s knowledge of his tools is a source of great power. Any time I’m preparing for a recording session or live sound gig, the first thing I set upon once I determine the makeup of the ensemble and the equipment at my disposal is to determine how best to utilize the available microphones. One of the…
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Church Sound Files: The Nature Of Soundcheck, Building A Mix & Working Together
Curt Taipale
01/19/10 05:38 PM,
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Who is soundcheck for, anyway? Sounds like a silly question, at least until you start talking with the worship teams and tech crews at a lot of churches. Then the realization begins that in fact there are some different perspectives floating around out there. From my perspective as an audio engineer, soundcheck is not the process of setting up the…
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Technologist: Don’t Come Unglued; Bake A Tape!
Kyle P. Snyder
01/11/10 10:35 AM,
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In late 2008 I was called out by a friend to repair a Studer tape deck; an A827, which I had never used before. While I was very fortunate that the studio owned both the original alignment tape and tentelometer, the original (rather aged and unused) tape shed like crazy because of its storage conditions, and our inability to bake…
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Technologist: The Technologist: Spotlight Versus Pro Tools - The Devil Is In The Details
Kyle P. Snyder
12/28/09 05:23 PM,
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As any Pro Tools user can tell you, the devil is in the details. Making sure that your system is properly optimized makes all the difference, as I found in my month-long battle with Spotlight. It all began when I started having random kernel panics, which seemed to be attributable to a Spotlight conflict. So, I set out to correct…
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Audio Pundit: Ray Kurzweil: How Technology Will Change Humanity In The Next Decade & Beyond
Keith Clark
12/25/09 01:51 PM,
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Happy Holidays! I recently ran across an interesting article in the New York Daily News, authored by Ray Kurzweil, best known to us in the audio/music business for his creation of a new generation of music synthesizers in the mid-1980s, in which he provides his views and predictions on how technology will change and impact our lives over the next…
View this story
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