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Saturday, May 01, 2010
Bruce Bartlett
05/01/10 12:54 PM,

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In designing a live sound system, you’ll come up with all sorts of questions, such as: One power amplifier is rated at 1,000 watts, and a different brand is also rated at 1,000 watts. Do they actually produce the same power? Suppose you add more loudspeakers in parallel to a power amp output. Does the amp produce more power, less power, or the same? Does each loudspeaker have to handle more or less power as you add more loudspeakers? To…
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
PSW Staff
08/27/09 02:15 PM,
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Syn-Aud-Con will be presenting the Syn-Aud-Con Digital Seminar in Dallas, on September 14-16, 2009. The seminar is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to digital audio, digital signal processing and networking. This is the only time this class will be presented in 2009. This class is taught by three instructors - Steve Macatee, Brad Benn, and Pat Brown - each coming from a different background, making this team diverse and highly qualified. Sample comments from attendees of the most recent…
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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08/26/09 08:15 AM,
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For the second year, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, along with Shure and Martin Professional, will be offering product training for church technicians and musicians enhanced insight into audio, musicianship, lighting, recording, and media presentation. The Worship Arts Technology Summit (WATS) will be held September 14–16, 2009 in Muskegon, Michigan at one of the most beautiful Christian conference centers in the nation – The Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference Center on the shores of Lake Michigan. All skill levels are welcome…
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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08/25/09 04:11 PM,
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Rational Acoustics has appointed SonoTribe Audio Consultants as the official providers of Spanish language Smaart Training Classes for Mexico and Latin America. Founded in 2007 by Oscar Gamas and Salvador Castaneda, SonoTribe provides system design and analysis services for a wide variety of clients across Latin America in addition to teaching classes in audio theory, system design and implementation. Prior to founding SonoTribe, Gamas and Castaneda were employed by Meyer Sound in the design and education departments respectively. Together they…
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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08/24/09 01:32 PM,
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The new Mackie Thump TH-15A is a two-way, self-powered portable loudspeaker. It incorporates a proprietary Class-D Fast Recovery amplifier that pushes 400-watts of power to the high-frequency 1-inch compression driver and 15-inch woofer. Proprietary Mackie Active processing (based on the company’s popular SRMv2 Series), including a precision crossover and driver time-alignment, provides total optimization for maximum system efficiency. The TH-15A also features a user-adjustable 3-band EQ for tone control, providing an available 15 dB boost or cut at 80 Hz…
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
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08/20/09 09:51 AM,
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The acclaimed seminar series “The Complete Front of House Engineer” is back for 2009, scheduled to be presented in partnership with Church On The Rock in St. Peters, Missouri, beginning September 14, 2009. The Complete FOH Engineer seminars were formed in 2000 by 6-time TEC Award winning engineer Robert Scovill, and since that time, he has developed the series into a tour de force of workshops aimed at engineers and mixers who enter with a wide breadth of experience looking…
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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08/11/09 11:27 AM,
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Syn-Aud-Con will be presenting the Syn-Aud-Con Digital Seminar in Dallas, on September 14-16, 2009. The seminar is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to digital audio, digital signal processing and networking. This is the only time this class will be presented in 2009. This class is taught by three instructors - Steve Macatee, Brad Benn, and Pat Brown - each coming from a different background, making this team diverse and highly qualified. Sample comments from the most recent Syn-Aud-Con Digital…
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08/11/09 09:53 AM,
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BAE (Brent Averill Enterprises) has introduced the new, improved 1272 and 1272A stereo mic preamplifiers, featuring a new twist on vintage design, with the hand-built units now housed in enclosed chassis. “The benefit of this new design is that it provides more real estate on which to place additional features,” commented BAE President, Mark Loughman. “The four buttons on the faceplate signify 48-volt phantom power, phase reverse, direct line input and selectable mic input impedance of 1200 and 300 ohms.”…
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Friday, July 31, 2009
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07/31/09 05:16 PM,
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Universal Audio has announced the release of the Empirical Labs FATSO powered plug-in for its popular line of UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Cards for Mac and PC. The original EL7 FATSO hardware’s design and creative feature set gives users the warm sound of magnetic recording tape, Class-A transformers, and tube circuits. The FATSO Jr. & Sr. Powered Plug-In for the UAD-2 recreates these distinctive sounds with great accuracy, and can be downloaded for $299 from Universal Audio’s Online Store. The FATSO…
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Monday, July 27, 2009
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07/27/09 06:08 PM,
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InfoComm International will be offering live event training at PLASA09 (PLASA 2009), being held this September (13-16) in Earls Court, London. From September 13-15, InfoComm will be teaching Staging and Event Management, a class designed for live event managers, technical directors, and AV technicians. “The ability to manage technical departments, clients and venues is a learned skill. Clients expect to see a return on investment, and live event professionals are expected to maintain budgets, weigh profitability and explore opportunities to…
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