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Thursday, May 02, 2013
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05/02/13 11:17 AM,
American Audio introduces of the ELS15A, a lightweight 15-inch active speaker that has everything needed to establish a serious party groove using virtually any music player or audio source. The sleekly designed speaker features an extremely high-efficiency design but plenty of power to cover small and mid-sized venues. Best of all, it carries an incredibly affordable MSRP of $229.95 — and a MAP price of only $170 — making it the perfect choice for today’s mobile DJ on a budget.…
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
PSW Staff
04/18/13 10:12 AM,
Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, announces the appointment of Derek Snyder to the position of Director, Western Region. The announcement was made by GC Pro Vice President Rick Plushner and reflects the division’s ongoing success and expansion. Plushner stated, “Derek has been a tremendous asset to GC Pro. He has provided guidance on starting our installations program; assisted in opening various commercial product lines; developed…
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Monday, March 11, 2013
PSW Staff
03/11/13 09:58 AM,
Sound systems are normally associated with venues or sites, but occasionally for public safety this can expand to a need for a system which covers whole cities and regions. Such is the case with Marghera City, in the province of Venice, Italy, which has recently had an audio warning system installed utilizing Community loudspeakers. Marghera is situated on the area of dry land facing Venice. It arose in its present form in the early 20th century to provide Venice with…
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
PSW Staff
02/21/13 02:43 PM,
Allen & Heath has introduced a brand new product to its range, the ICE-16, a 16 In/16 Out audio interface allowing performers and audio engineers to easily capture high quality multi-track recordings direct to a USB drive or interface to a computer. Fitted into a compact 1U rack design, ICE-16 is capable of studio quality interfacing, converting and bi-directional streaming of 16 channels over high-speed USB or FireWire at 24 bit, 96kHz resolution. Alternatively, 16 channels can be simultaneously recorded…
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Monday, February 11, 2013
David Miles Huber & Robert E. Runstein
02/11/13 04:50 PM,
Go here for the first installment of this article. The Magnetic Tape Head Most professional analog recorders use three magnetic tape heads, each of which performs a specialized task: —Record—Reproduce—Erase The function of a record head (Figure 1) is to electromagnetically transform analog electrical signals into corresponding magnetic fields that can be permanently stored onto magnetic tape. In short, the input current flows through coils of wire that are wrapped around the head’s magnetic pole pieces. Since the theory of…
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
PSW Staff
01/29/13 01:25 PM,
Optocore will launch its new range of MADI Switches at ISE 2013 (Booth 3-A120). Developed specifically for professional audio and video users, Optocore’s new MADI Switches have extremely low power consumption, latency and setup time. Equipped with 10 or 18 ports of MADI, the switches allow distribution over Cat5 cabling, in addition to MADI over fiber and MADI over BNC. The RJ45 MADI ports on the new products will introduce greater flexibility, lower cost and simplification of MADI connectivity. Additionally,…
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Paul Stark
01/11/13 02:48 PM,
Editor’s Note: From the archives of the late, great Recording Engineer/Producer (RE/P) magazine, this feature is a serious look at club sound in RE/P’s Concert Sound Reinforcement supplement. The article dates back to the January/February 1974 issue. “Multi-Various” is a phrase we have invented to describe the spectrum of challenges, problems and responsibilities the sound man is continually exposed to in working to achieve the best possible audio environment in club-type establishments. The obvious grammatical redundancy of the phrase is…
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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12/12/12 12:45 PM,
Clearwing Productions has just released details of the 2012 audio and lighting design for Phoenix ZooLights, an annual lighting spectacular that has been held at the Phoenix Zoo for the past 20 years. This year, Clearwing designed and executed a new event finale encompassing the lagoon, including a centerpiece that is a custom 25-foot-tall sphere surrounded by twelve 12-foot pylons covered in Color Kinetics iColor Flex MX LED strings. Each of the 4,350 LEDs on the display is individually controlled,…
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Ken DeLoria
12/12/12 12:14 PM,
As the world continually progresses, new technologies and methodologies inevitably present themselves. Most developmental efforts are intended to aid technology users improve their work output in respect to quality and efficiency, while also aiming to make a profit. This cycle occurs in every industry from heavy construction to microscopic surgery. We, as the providers and operators of entertainment and communication equipment, are constantly in the midst of it all. And we must adapt to these changes if we wish to…
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Saturday, December 01, 2012
Bobby Owsinski
12/01/12 06:31 PM,
These days it seems that almost everyone has a digital audio workstation (DAW) and a common 8-channel interface from Avid, MOTU, Edirol or some other manufacturer. Believe it or not, these small, inexpensive rigs pack more power than The Beatles ever had during their heyday (yet they sold over 1 billion records), and we can easily put that power to work when making a simple 8-track recording. While many of the interfaces actually have more than 8 inputs if you…
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