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Monday, March 16, 2009
PSW Staff 03/16/09 01:36 PM, 0 CommentsIK Multimedia and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation have announced that the new AmpliTube Fender is now shipping. AmpliTube Fender offers a selection of 45 of the most sought-after classic and modern Fender guitar and bass amps, cabinets, stompboxes and rack effects, including the ‘65 Twin Reverb, ‘59 Bassman LTD, ‘57 Deluxe, ‘64 Vibroverb Custom, ‘65 Deluxe Reverb, Vibratone, Super-Sonic, Metalhead, Fender Blender, Phaser, Fuzz-Wah, and many others. AmpliTube Fender is the result of two years of collaboration between Fender and… View this story
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
PSW Staff 03/10/09 04:11 PM, 1 CommentNBC’s Today Show explored climactic changes on our planet with a special news report titled the “Ends of the Earth”. The report, which was presented late last year, featured the show’s four anchors stationed in different parts of the world, with the NBC Network News Field Operations team charged with the responsibility of handling all the technical logistics that enabled hosts Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Meredith Vierra, and Al Roker to simultaneously contribute to the program. For the crew tasked… View this story
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Monday, March 09, 2009
PSW Staff 03/09/09 09:16 AM, 0 CommentsDessa Darling, emcee for Minnesota-based hip-hop group Doomtree, recently performed at the Guthrie Theater’s Dowling Studio in Minneapolis in celebration of the release of her new book, Spiral Bound, a collection of short fiction and poetry. Twin Cities-based production and rental company Windy Shores Sound provided a suitably high-end compact sound system for the event – the XA from Dynacord. Sound engineer Maury Jensen was impressed with the system’s performance: “I had heard of other engineers’ favorable experiences with Dynacord… View this story
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
James Cadwallader 02/25/09 11:44 AM,It’s time for me to come out of the closet: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool unity gain structure freak. There, I said it and I sure do feel better. Catharsis is a good thing. Now, for those of you who aren’t sure what the heck I’m talking about, I’ll explain, and maybe get a few of you over to the dark side with me. First some clarification. Gain in sound parlance is the act of adding to (positive), subtracting from (negative), or… View this story
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Friday, February 20, 2009
PSW Staff 02/20/09 09:57 AM, 0 CommentsMetropolitan Bible Church (affectionately called, “the MET”) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada recently celebrated the opening of a new facility headed by a stadium-style sanctuary that can seat over 1,200, with plans already set to expand this space to accommodate a congregation of 2,200. The high-end sound reinforcement system serving the room is headed by Electro-Voice very compact XLD line arrays. After confirming the XLD’s performance with EASE data and working with EV’s tech support team to cross-check details, Wall Sound… View this story
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Andy Wood 02/16/09 10:28 AM, 1 CommentThere are times, quite frankly, when that huge arena rig is simply too much. Times when the trucks and road crew are not required. Times when you just want to pack some gear into the trunk of the car and get the gig done. Forget the laminates and get back to basics. Thankfully there are solutions, and we’re here to cover those bases. Whether you need a complete solution with built-in amps, wireless mics and FX DSPs, or just a… View this story
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
PSW Staff 01/21/09 01:10 PM, 1 CommentIn one of the most widely viewed and celebrated civic events in history, Baltimore-based audio systems provider Maryland Sound (MSI) deployed JBL VERTEC line arrays as the main PA system for the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20. The ceremony took place at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., with a crowd of more than 1.5 million onlookers extending two miles from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the Potomac River, and along Pennsylvania Avenue to… View this story
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Friday, January 09, 2009
PSW Staff 01/09/09 04:11 PM, 0 CommentsSince shipping in September, the Fishman SoloAmp has met with a very positive response from leading dealers and is currently being tested in the field by working singer/guitarists such as Jerry Douglas, Fiona Boyes and Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens, and it will be a highlight of the company’s presence at the upcoming Winter NAMM show at Booth 4258. SoloAmp’s compact line-source speaker design delivers wide horizontal dispersion and deep sound penetration, and it is driven by a digital (Class-D)… View this story
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Nort Johnson 12/23/08 11:23 AM, 2 CommentsIn 1976, I was hired on the local crew to pitch and bail scaffolding and deck for my first stadium show at the historic Comiskey Park in Chicago. It was a July 8 truck tip and the day of the show was July 10. The temperature hovered around 100 degrees for the duration. We erected the monster in the left center field bleachers over the seats where Babe Ruth and Nellie Fox used to tear the hides off of well-greased… View this story
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Keith Clark 12/22/08 09:20 AM, 0 CommentsRadial Engineering has announced the launch of Forest Audio, a new division of Radial Engineering that will focus on top-end audio devices for studio and live touring. The division’s first product release is the Forest Audio F15 instrument preamplifier, a Class-A device with a unique feed-forward design that eliminates the use of circuit stabilizing negative feedback in the DI section, boosting sonic clarity. The F15 also includes several features unique to instrument preamps, including remote phantom powering for microphones, drag… View this story
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