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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Peavey Introduces Versatile EU Series Active Loudspeakers Featuring IPR Amp Technology
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02/09/10 10:06 AM,
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Peavey has introduced the new EU Series class D powered loudspeaker enclosures, including the EU 112D and EU 115D two-way loudspeakers and EU 118D subwoofer. The EU 112D and EU 115D powered enclosures showcase the new 12-inch Peavey Black Widow…
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Audio-Technica Updates 4000 And 5000 Series Wireless Microphone Systems
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02/08/10 05:12 PM,
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Audio-Technica has announced updates to its award-winning Artist Elite 4000 Series and 5000 Series frequency-agile true diversity UHF wireless systems. To reflect the enhancements, the letter “a” will be added to the end of all 4000 and 5000 Series system…
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Roland Systems Group Releases Software Updates For M-400 And M-380 V-Mixers
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02/08/10 02:09 PM,
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Roland Systems Group (RSG) has released software updates for their popular digital mixing consoles – the M-400 and M-380 V-Mixers. V-Mixer software update Version 2.1 for M-400 and Version 1.1 for M-380 add S-4000M functionality as well as a number…
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Released & Available: New Version Of StagePlotPro For Macintosh (v2.0)
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02/08/10 10:26 AM,
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StagePlotPro v1.0 introduced the stage plot that actually resembled the band’s setup, graphics that were obviously mics, drums, or amplifiers, arranged on the stage where the band wanted them, numbered according to an input list that was right there on…
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Audio-Technica Debuts MCB4 Antenna Combiner For M3 Wireless IEM Systems
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02/04/10 09:12 AM,
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Audio-Technica has introduced the MCB4 IEM antenna combiner, which allows the signals of up to four A-T M3 wireless in-ear monitor stereo transmitters to be combined onto a single transmitting antenna, reducing rack clutter. A wide-band unit that operates over…
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Lake Debuts New LM 26 Digital Loudspeaker Processor With Audinate Dante Networking
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02/03/10 08:50 AM,
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Audinate announced that Lake, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lab.gruppen, has launched the new LM 26 digital audio loudspeaker processor with Dante networking inside. The LM 26 is the successor to the Dolby Lake Processor (DLP) with extensive digital matrix functions…
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Ashly Audio Names Todd K. Smith As Western Regional Sales Manager
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02/08/10 04:14 PM,
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Ashly Audio continues to grow and support its expanding product line of cost-effective, network-ready digital signal processors and amplifiers with the addition of Todd K. Smith to the position of western regional sales manager. Based in Colorado and reporting to…
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Released & Available: New Version Of StagePlotPro For Macintosh (v2.0)
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02/08/10 10:26 AM,
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StagePlotPro v1.0 introduced the stage plot that actually resembled the band’s setup, graphics that were obviously mics, drums, or amplifiers, arranged on the stage where the band wanted them, numbered according to an input list that was right there on…
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Friday, February 05, 2010
InnovaSon Installed At Portland’s Village Baptist Church
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02/05/10 11:22 AM,
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Village Baptist Church near Portland, OR, has recently taken delivery of a 72-input/16-output InnovaSon Sy48 digital mixing console with DioCore stagebox following the opening of their brand new worship center in September 2009. The new building provides 43,695 square feet…
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
TC Group Americas Names Ben Cook As Key Accounts Manager
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02/03/10 06:50 PM,
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TC Group Americas, distributor of Tannoy, Lab.gruppen, TC Electronic, TC Helicon, Dynaudio Acoustics and Linn, has announced the appointment of Ben Cook as Key Accounts Manager. Cook will primarily be focusing on the installation market of the TCGA brands as…
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
NSCA Announces Excellence In Business Award Winners
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01/28/10 05:41 PM,
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NSCA has announced the winners of its 2010 Excellence in Business Awards, honoring systems contracting companies for their creative, visionary strategies to build successful business models. “Despite the fact that the past 12 to 18 months have been extremely challenging…
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
dbx Launches New Website That Includes Online Dealer & Customer Resource Functionality
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01/27/10 01:44 PM,
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dbx Professional Products has launched a newly redesigned website offering improved navigation, and more targeted resources geared toward the markets that dbx serves. Featuring individual areas on the website focused on the installed, portable, tour, and studio sound markets, website…
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Church Sound Wisdom: Making The System Budget
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02/08/10 03:41 PM,
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How do you establish priorities for your operating budget each year? Do you have a five year plan for your ministry, a solid idea of where you want to be in the future, and a way to stay on task?…
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Church Sound Tune Up: Getting The Most From Your Sound System
Mike Sokol
02/02/10 03:10 PM,
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Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. If terms such as gain structure, impedance matching and headroom are unfamiliar, or worse, give you a headache, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Most church sound techs would rather have their gear work…
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Church Sound Basics: The Most Common Cause Of “Blown” Loudspeakers
Jon Baumgartner
01/27/10 12:15 PM,
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I’m the pro audio guy at a music store in Iowa, and my office is in the back corner of our electronic repair shop. Because I get to overhear the sad tales of woe from the repair shop customers, I’ve…
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Tools For Worship: Evaluating & Selecting Loudspeakers
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01/22/10 05:43 PM,
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In the world of sound system design and installation, there’s an old adage that states, “Your system is only as good as the weakest component in the signal chain.” This is especially true of a sound system’s loudspeakers. They are…
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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…
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Building Your Worship Center For Quality Sound & Acoustics
Vance Breshears
12/29/09 04:34 PM,
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“Hi, my name is Bob. I’m with “xyz” church and we’re designing a new worship center,” says a voice on the other end of the phone. “The architect told us it’s time to get a sound guy involved, so I’m…
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Gary Zandstra 01/26/10 06:49 PM, 0 CommentsA 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… View this story
Keith Clark 12/25/09 01:51 PM, 0 CommentsHappy 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,… View this story
Keith Clark 10/05/09 03:24 PM, 1 CommentI recently had the opportunity to attend a portion of Robert Scovill’s latest “Complete Front of House Engineer” seminar and workshop, held at the beautiful Church On The Rock in St. Peters, Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. The group… View this story
Mike Wireless 08/17/09 04:20 PM, 1 CommentJust a quick note to point out that there will be two wireless microphone-related panel discussions at the upcoming Audio Engineering Society convention to be held at the Javits Center in New York this October. The AES convention, which is… View this story
PSW Staff 08/17/09 11:28 AM, 1 CommentMackie describes the HD1531 as a “15” High-Definition Powered Loudspeaker System”. Yep, it’s got a 15” woofer, and it’s a three-way system, and it’s powered. Now what’s all this about being “High Definition”? I suppose I could try to explain… View this story
Mike Wireless 07/31/09 04:31 PM, 1 CommentOne of the topics that I’ve seen poorly understood, and even deliberately used to mislead people, is the issue of wireless microphone transmitter power and the effects said power has on system performance. Let’s start with the basics: all things… View this story
