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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
PSW Staff 04/14/09 09:31 AM, 0 CommentsFulcrum Acoustic recently added audio industry veteran Rich Frembes to its growing capabilities in engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Frembes joins Andy Jordan and Edwin Wyllie as a recent new hire working along with company co-founders David Gunness, Stephen Siegel, and Chris Alfiero to create next generation technology for the audio industry. Frembes joins Fulcrum Acoustic after nearly 10 years with loudspeaker manufacturer Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW), where he worked as Product Manager and touched all aspects of product development, product… View this story
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Friday, March 27, 2009
PSW Staff 03/27/09 11:37 AM, 0 CommentsChrist’s Church, in the German town of Velbert, North Rhine Westphalia, recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the laying of its foundation stone, and to celebrate the historic occasion, the church decided to invest in a modern sound system based on Martin Audio OmniLine line arrays driven by Crest Audio amplification with processing via an Architectural Acoustics Digitool MX programmable digital processor. Christ’s Church, Velbert is reputed to be one of the most significant ‘Jugendstil’ or art nouveau churches in… View this story
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Thursday, March 26, 2009Meyer Sound M1D Line Arrays Complement Angular Architecture Of St. Laurence Catholic Church in Texas
PSW Staff 03/26/09 09:17 AM, 0 CommentsPresenting myriad angled planes and asymmetrical layout, St. Laurence Catholic Church in Sugar Land, Texas has been recently enlarged and furnished with glass and stone surfaces, but the visually striking sanctuary also carried the potential of jumbling words and music in multiple uncontrolled reflections. The solution was discreet acoustical treatments working hand-in-hand with a precision-calibrated Meyer Sound line arrays to provide markedly improved clarity along with a greater sense of intimacy. Mary Thompson, the music director at St. Laurence, has… View this story
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
PSW Staff 03/25/09 12:30 PM, 0 CommentsSyn-Aud-Con has several of its in-depth audio training sessions coming up, beginning in April and continuing through the year. Led by Pat Brown, Syn-Aud-Con is noted for the depth and quality of its educational efforts. Here’s the schedule of upcoming sessions: Core Principles Of Audio: Provides knowledge that is essential for operating a sound system. Important subjects such as microphone selection, mixer setup, and signal flow are extensively covered. The emphasis is on the practical rather than the theoretical, using… View this story
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Keith Clark 03/17/09 01:59 PM, 0 CommentsRational Acoustics LLC has just announced that it has entered a two-stage agreement with EAW for the worldwide distribution rights and purchase of the Smaart brand product line, the professional audio industry’s dominant software platform for sound system measurement and optimization. Rational Acoustics, based in Connecticut, was founded last year by pro audio veterans Jamie Anderson, Karen Anderson, Calvert Dayton and Adam Black to provide training courses, hardware products/packages, and professional consulting for the specialized field of system measurement, analysis,… View this story
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
PSW Staff 03/11/09 08:19 AM, 0 CommentsTo enhance the intelligibility of the paging systems within the 86-station Washington Metro rapid transit system in Washington, D.C., all paging announcement microphones have been upgraded to high-end, broadcast-quality Neumann TLM 103s. Washington Metro, or “Metro” for short, has one command and control center in downtown Washington D.C., and a second that is near completion in Hyattsville, Maryland. Within each center, four workstations permit the simultaneous pre-recording of separate pages or, more frequently, simultaneous real-time pages with different content sent… View this story
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Friday, February 27, 2009
PSW Staff 02/27/09 08:53 AM, 1 CommentDoug Rogers, founder of the EastWest software instrument company, has purchased and re-opened the recording studio located at 6000 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the site of historic recordings by a who’s who of the last four decades, from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra through The Beach Boys to Green Day and Madonna. In the process of restoring the facilities to their former glory and relocating EastWest’s operations to the complex, Rogers outfitted the three principal control rooms with soffit-mounted ATC… View this story
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
PSW Staff 02/26/09 03:52 PM, 0 CommentsPro Sound & Communications of Bellingham, Washington recently upgraded the sound reinforcement system at the Carver Gymnasium on the campus of Western Washington University (WWU), also in Bellingham. Designed by Thom Mullins of BRC Acoustics Consulting, the upgraded system is headlined by a wide range of Electro-Voice components. Carver Gymnasium is used for many different applications, including athletic events, lectures, and graduation ceremonies, and depending on the occasion, it can seat anywhere from 4,000 to 7,500 people. The venue’s existing… View this story
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PSW Staff 02/26/09 12:24 PM, 0 CommentsA powerful Meyer Sound MILO and MICA line array loudspeaker system delivered 11 hours of uninterrupted prayer and music to a crowd of 350,000 at the annual Experience Interdenominational Gospel Concert, reported on its website as the largest concert in Africa and the largest gospel musical event in the world. Staged at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria, the massive musical extravaganza brought together worshippers from throughout Africa to revel in performances by award-winning artists including Kirk Franklin, Donnie… View this story
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
PSW Staff 02/24/09 01:32 PM, 0 CommentsThe Mississippi Delta is considered “ground zero” of the blues-music movement, and in particular, the town of Clarksdale, where U.S. Highways 61 and 49 intersect at the fabled “Crossroads,” holds a mystique with music fans who come from around the world to experience the art form. Blues music evolved in juke-joint nightclubs across the region, but most of them are tucked away, off the main highways and sometimes known only by locals. This is a big reason why, in 2001,… View this story
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