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Re: Wake Up Call, Pay attention!
Bennett Prescott wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 10:35
What does that chart indicate? It appears to ignore social security and medicare, which last I checked were larger expenditures than the military.
That chart ignore "Debt" service.
As for SS, the guvm't also borrows against the (ostensibly self-funded) receipts from it, and then pays it back from debt service.
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Re: Apogee HF-4 15" replacement
I just got off the phone with Apogee about a repair issue. They are still answering the phones and so far seem to be relatively helpful. You might want to try giving them a call.
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Re: nyc rental recommendations
tony geballe wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 12:18
so, does anyone have a recommendation for a rental house in nyc that has really, really extraordinarily cheap prices?
How reliably do they need to work?
Seriously; if you don't need reliable or particularly good sounding units, an antenna system, or appropriate bandsplits for your location, you could look into offerings from some of the music stores in midtown or northern NJ. You could likely get away for under $2000.00 with some bargaining.
If however your director decides reliable and good sounding wireless [in the appropriate bandsplits] is in fact necessary, there are several rental houses in the NY metro area that can provide professional level equipment and systems in top operating condition. -
Re: EAW SB850 Question
I've also done 2 amps for 6 SB850's... each side of each amp driving three 18" drivers.
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Re: Which driverack 260, pa+ or px?
Greetings,
Here's the major differences from the 260 to the DRPA/PA +,
Unless specified the below is a 260 only feature.
GUI operation for fast visual manipulation of parameters , with multiple windows so you can monitor, and manipulate much easier and faster
Input mixers
Choice of 28 band GEQ or 9 band PEQ input Eq (no choice DRPA)
2 pre xover Inserts with the choice of:
a. AFS
b. AGC
c. compressor
d. gate
e. notch filter
f. strait wire
g. Sub synth
(Fixed @ AFS and Sub synth DRPA)
Pre crossover delay, and the ability to freely redistribute the available delay between the various locations pre/post xover and 2.7 seconds of delay versus 10ms fixed per output and no pre-xover delay DRPA
Routing of any input to any or all outputs
Multiple filter and crossovers from 1x1 wire to 2x6 crossover
Bessel xover types
4 peq’s per output (3 hi outs and 2 mid and low outs DRPA)
Brick wall limiting
Multiple level password security (single level password anyone can look up and defeat DRPA)
You can run the GUI over 300 feet of snake
Ability to link and unlink modules
Copy and paste function
You can label outputs whatever you want
Realtime RTA on GUI and display screen
Update via serial bus
mutes on every output (DRPA+ has as well)
to name a few…
The DRPA+
Adds realtime RTA and mutes to the DRPA platform and a superior Auto EQ algorithm...There are more speakers/amps in the menu (not that a non bi-amp speaker even needs a preset...
) and auto level for balancing the system prior to auto eq...a new interface so you'll need to learn a few new bits from the old DRPA, but it's basically the same platform...
3 peq's for the Hi outs
2 peq's for the mid and low outs
10 ms per output alignment delay
no brick wall limiting
NO GUI
A serial port for future preset updates.
The PX is a basic DRPA with only high and low outs, no delay with mostly powered speaker presets.
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Re: Can U Really Make a living in Audio?
Too Tall (Curtis H. List) wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 11:41
I can't think of anyone who "Planned" their way into mixing live audio. Add to that the fact that it is still in its infancy.
The giants of the field (and the nearly famous) are still with us.
In the 90s a lot of the people who were mixing the big acts of the day had to find new clients as the clients became older and had to either quit touring or severely reduce their schedule.
Many people don't make the jump.
Exception Buford Jones now with Faith Hill. I talked to him a bit when he first started with her at a fair out in West Liberty, Iowa.
I asked how he ended up with Faith and what the business was like.
In the day he worked with Showco and as in independent mixing Pink Floyd, Jackson Brown and the like.
It was all going good and then one day the phone stopped ringing.
This has happened to everyone I know and especially to the people I know locally. Some of the most knowledgeable and best sound reinforcement people had to drop out. Get a day gig that has nothing to do with mixing. To get their fix they mix for $50 a night for some not very good bad band.
One of the few talented people in this area that has stuck it out is AL Limberg from the LAB.
Had I stayed working I would have been a stage manager for MSU.
When I was still working I got the summer off at MSU so I could work with some regional sound companies and actually mix live music at fairs and festivals. would have lost that two I suspect.
It always worked out that I made more money doing stage hand calls and sleep in my own bed and see my daughter every day then what a sound company could pay to go on the road.
The only thing that paid enough was touring with a yellow card (or similar) play. This was good money, b ut you NEVER saw your family.
If you are married or thinking of getting married you better think hard about mixing live audio.
Good stuff here. I "planned" to get into this business for a living. However, as of the fall of 2005 I had never even considered theatre. I was planning on mixing records. I had an instructor who advised that the only answer when called with a job offer was "yes". That advice led me to my current career (where incidentally, I do say no sometimes . . . but not often).
Family . . . I'm not going to air my personal life on a public forum but suffice it to say, it ain't easy to make both work.
The other important thing Curtis mentions: Never take anything for granted. It can all dry up in an instant. Hearing loss, falling out of favor with a producer, getting caught up in the "lifestyle", economic downturn.
Touring with a yellow card show? My advice is to do that. And often. If only it were that simple.
p.s. I was just in East Lansing at the Wharton Center with White Christmas. Our show was a beast and had the ability to crush the spirit of the local on the load-out. They stuck with us and we had a great week.
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Re: Car Adaptors for iPod/iPhone
Bennett Prescott wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 13:21
The iPod dock came as standard equipment with my Passat. Unfortunately it is an option for my new (used) Audi, so I'll have to wait until I've recovered from that fiasco to put it in again.
Congratulations Bennett, what did you get?
Mac
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Re: PA For Sale
Yes, all are "On Stage" and one bag is included with the tall stands and one bag is included with the short stands.
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Re: This is gonna sound stupid ...
Robin Whyte wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 13:24
Regarding ... ideal...
... exactly! I was looking for the ideal speaker example. I know lots of things change with frequency. But the general case seems to be that adding a second speaker in parallel without dropping the net impedence below the operating area of the amp, doubles sound output and also doubles the power of the amp -- basically (or ideally) giving you 6 db more sound output.
Adding the second speaker, at the same power level as the first gets you an ideal 3dB increase. To add that second speaker at the same level as the first requires another equal power consumption. The approximate doubling of power from the amp because of the halving of the load impedance provides this extra power. You do not get to add that power into the system twice.
You do not measure power. You measure voltage and impedance, you calculate the power from those 2 givens.In theoretical terms we usually think in terms of purely resistive loads, where power is pretty constant over a frequency range. No speaker presents that kind of a load.
Mac
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Re: Wake Up Call, Pay attention!
What does that chart indicate? It appears to ignore social security and medicare, which last I checked were larger expenditures than the military.
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Re: PA For Sale
Danny,
Are the boom stands all 'OnStage' brand as it looks like the ones in the picture are? Bags included?
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