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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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04/27/10 11:35 AM,
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T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. presented an unusual challenge to the designers of its new sound system - plenty of space for the new loudspeakers but very little time to fit them. The school recently moved into a new building designed as the flagship of Alexandria City Public Schools. The facility includes an 880-seat auditorium with a proscenium stage up front and two lecture halls in the rear. To provide sound reinforcement for both school meetings and…
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Friday, February 26, 2010
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02/26/10 03:12 PM,
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As with all sizes of modular line array enclosures there are several designs in the “mini” genre, which we define as those with 7-inch “woofers”. The simplest two-way systems have a single cone driver and a high-frequency driver, side by each. Some employ dual woofers, and those with a center high-frequency section that provides horizontal symmetry. Quasi-three-way solutions use dual woofers, but cross one over earlier, so the other is the single source of mid-range, eliminating cancellations. True three-way designs…
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Mark Frink
09/01/09 10:24 AM,
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This time in Real World Gear we look at the big guns - large format line arrays, those with 12-inch and larger woofers. Line arrays are modular, multi-way enclosures arrayed in vertical columns, with their cabinet’s geometry optimized to provide full-frequency transducer coupling from one enclosure to the next along the height of the array. This is achieved at lower frequencies with cone transducers forming a column from one cabinet to the next, at frequencies where the distance between their…
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09/01/09 07:20 AM,
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CAD Professional Microphones and Astatic Commercial Audio Products are re-branding as CAD Audio to expand the company’s product offerings across several markets, optimize the efficiencies of its sales and distribution channels, and streamline its marketing, PR and promotional efforts. The company’s original roots can be traced back to the Astatic Corporation, established in 1931 in Conneaut, Ohio by two radio engineers dedicated to the development of a static-free or “Astatic” microphone. The company evolved into Astatic Commercial Audio products, which…
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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08/31/09 11:17 AM,
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The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour, which culminated in August with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdel Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, was supported by sound reinforcement courtesy of Sound Image of Escondido, California, which provided JBL VERTEC line arrays. The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour reunited one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s, whose 1995 release Tragic Kingdom has sold more than 16 million copies to date. In recent years, No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani…
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Friday, August 21, 2009
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08/21/09 12:43 PM,
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Meyer Sound has announced its international education schedule for August to October 2009, with seminars to be held in Mexico City; Toronto; Los Angeles; Montabaur, Germany; Seville and Madrid, Spain; Duivendrecht, Netherlands; and Osimo Stazione, Italy. Some seminars will be taught in the local languages, including Spanish and German, and others will be interpreted in real time by qualified translators. The upcoming seminars will cover core audio principles encompassing sound system design and alignment, line array theory, equalization, delay, and…
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
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08/20/09 02:42 PM,
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The Northbrook Theater in Northbrook, IL, has selected AKG DMS 700 digital wireless microphone systems to play a role in all 12 of its annual productions. The 300-seat theater recently upgraded to the DMS 700 systems, incorporating 12 DSR 700 receivers, 10 CK 77 Microphones, and 25 DPT 700 bodypacks. The theater is using AKG’s digital wireless system to drive a series of performances put on by youth, for youth. Performing Arts Supervisor Kurt Ottinger needed a system that came…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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08/18/09 12:06 PM,
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Britain’s Top of the Pops (TOTP) has been a BBC institution since 1964, broadcast weekly until 2006 and occasionally as one-off specials in the following years. The latest TOTP special, broadcast on BBC2 earlier in 2009, featured performances from Franz Ferdinand, Flo-Rida, Oasis, Take That, Tom Jones, James Morrison and more, live from BBC’s Studio 4, as part of this year’s Comic Relief charity fundraising special. Aside from the significance marked by convergence of these great artists, a TOTP revival…
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Monday, August 17, 2009
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08/17/09 12:35 PM,
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The annual July 4th concert performance at the Ft. Wayne campus of Indiana/Purdue University featured four local acts capped off by nationally known country singer Jo Dee Messina and a spectacular finale featuring the Ft. Wayne Symphony Orchestra performing in tandem with choreographed fireworks. To accommodate all of the performers, Sticha Bros, who’d been contracted for the event by Northern Productions of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, set up a larger 60- x 60-foot stage next to a smaller 60- x…
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
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08/13/09 07:15 AM,
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Leading sound and lighting provider Peak Hire Ltd. of Gloucester, England, recently bolstered its inventory of products with the purchase of eight EAW KF850 Series Virtual Array loudspeakers and eight EAW SB1002 large-format flyable subwoofers. Peak Hire’s EAW inventory was already sizeable, including 16 KF730 compact line arrays modules and eight SB730 compact line array subwoofers, as well as JFX88 and JFX200i compact loudspeakers and SBX220 compact subwoofers. Peak Hire Managing Director Karl Ashman stated, “EAW has long been a…
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