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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Loudspeaker Primer: Basics, Methods Of Selection & Matching To Power Amplifiers
Keith Clark
01/06/09 02:23 PM,
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In the world of professional sound design and installation, there’s an old adage that goes “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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Monday, December 22, 2008
What Makes A Quality Loudspeaker?
Pat Brown
12/22/08 01:52 PM,
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The device commonly referred to as a “speaker” is more correctly referred to as a loudspeaker system. It is comprised of some transducers, a crossover network, an enclosure, and a few additional parts. Loudspeaker system designers must be familiar with…
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Recording Tip: Successfully Dealing With A Dead Room
Barry Rudolph
12/15/08 06:53 AM,
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Many studios built in the 1970’s were designed NOT to have any acoustic influence on the recorded sound produced in them. This was accomplished by over-deadening walls, floors and ceilings so no sound waves (leakage) would reflect and add (or…
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Myth Busting: The Truth About Loudspeaker Wire
John Roberts
12/12/08 05:06 PM,
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Too many good folks have been separated from their hard earned money by hyperbolic claims about loudspeaker wire. There will always be people with more dollars than sense, but they don’t last very long in professional audio. I speculate there…
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Top 10 Reasons For Bad Sound (And What You Can Do About It…)
Karl Winkler
12/12/08 03:13 PM,
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One of my favorite quotes goes something like this: “Let’s take some of these things over which we have no control, and do something about them.” I only wish I knew who originally said this, because that person is my…
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Monday, December 01, 2008
In-Depth: The Aux-Fed Subwoofer Technique Explained
Tom Young
12/01/08 05:20 PM,
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Over the past several years, a technique most commonly called “aux fed subs” has been developed for reducing low-frequency “muddiness” from front-of-house (FOH) loudspeaker systems. This technique has resulted in considerable benefits over a wide variety of sound reinforcement applications,…
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Virtual Cables and the Desktop Studio
Brian Smithers
11/25/08 02:42 PM,
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So what happens when most of your “gear” is actually software? What good is that stack of freshly soldered MIDI cables when you’re trying to send timing signals from your digital audio workstation (DAW) to your virtual drum machine? What…
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Using EQ On The Church System Mixing Console
Joe Wisler
11/21/08 04:04 PM,
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“You know, I’ve been doing sound here at my church for about two years now, and there are a couple of things that aren’t quite clear to me. First, where’s the bass and treble control? And, what are these knobs…
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Audio Pundit: Happy Birthday, Elvis
Keith Clark
01/08/09 12:30 PM,
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It doesn’t seem quite right not to point out that today (January 8) is the birthday of Elvis Presley, who would have been 74. So much still written and so much still said about Elvis, and that’s as it should…
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Audio Pundit: iTunes Store Dropping DRM, Varying Prices
Keith Clark
01/08/09 09:11 AM,
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Earlier this week at Macworld, Apple made a stir by announcing that its iTunes Store will soon be selling content without DRM (digital rights management) restrictions, and further, will be altering its uniform 99-cent price structure. DRM is technology that…
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Audio Pundit: Sensitive Female Chord Progression?
Keith Clark
12/31/08 02:34 PM,
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I ran across an interesting article in today’s (Dec 31, 2008) online edition of the Boston Globe. Correspondent Marc Hirsh points out “four chords that underpin a song’s verse, circling from yearning to triumph and back again, four chords that…
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Lizard's Lounge: I Run the Gamut from Low-Paid Labor to Low-Paid Master of All I Survey…
Dave Dermont
12/24/08 09:43 AM,
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Greetings and welcome to my new ProSoundWeb Blog. My name is Dave Dermont. Some of you may know me as one of the moderators on the ProSoundWeb forums and author of the occasional article in Live Sound International. This is…
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Audio Pundit: New Study Challenges Internet Music Sales Predictions
Keith Clark
12/22/08 06:03 PM,
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A new study by the chief economist of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, a not-for-profit royalty collection society, found that sales of music via the Internet are highly limited to a relatively small share of total files available online. In fact, the…
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Audio Pundit: Another Rolling Stone Turns 65
Keith Clark
12/18/08 04:19 PM,
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Mick Jagger turned 65 this year, and now, so has fellow Rolling Stones mate Keith Richards. Or, as the AFP puts it, “famously drug-addled Rolling Stone Keith Richards turns 65 this week.” The man is a miracle of modern science. …
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