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Monday, January 19, 2009
PSW Staff 01/19/09 11:52 AM, 2 CommentsAt Winter NAMM ‘09, Peavey introduced two new mixers to join the Peavey XR Series powered-mixer line, the XR 1220 console and rack-mountable XR 1212, featuring numerous Peavey technologies and extensive digital signal processing. The new XR 1220 and XR 1212 are based on dual 600-watt, class D power amplifiers that can be configured into five operating modes: Left & Right; Left & Right with Subwoofer; Main & Monitor; Main & Monitor with Subwoofer; and Monitor 1 and Monitor 2.… View this story
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
PSW Staff 01/13/09 08:20 AM, 0 CommentsRadial Engineering has announced the new Radial SW4 Festival Switcher, a 19-inch (by 1U deep) rack-mount device is designed to allow several mixing consoles, a CD player, a stereo recorder, an i-Pod and a microphone to share the same PA system. The new SW4 will be on display at the Radial booth (#6959, Hall A) at the Winter NAMM ‘09 Show in Anaheim. According to Radial President Peter Janis: “We have noticed a growing demand from the touring market for… View this story
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Monday, January 12, 2009
PSW Staff 01/12/09 04:57 PM, 0 CommentsLOUD Technologies has just announced two new contract manufacturing (“CM”) partners and the reallocation of production for certain EAW and Mackie products across its worldwide supply chain to replace capacity lost when the prior CM for those products discontinued operations in December, 2008. Meanwhile, supplies of all other EAW and Mackie products, as well as Alvarez, Ampeg, Crate and Martin branded products continue uninterrupted, as they are manufactured at other LOUD CM partners. “We were already moving to secure alternate… View this story
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PSW Staff 01/12/09 09:28 AM, 1 CommentNYC IT-Club Santos Party House features new, advanced sound systems relying upon Harman Professional components, with system design and integration by TimbreTech Audio Services. The new systems support DJ/club and live performance applications in multiple events and show times in one evening. Club sound icon Jim Toth designed a live system around a Soundcraft Vi6 console at the main mix position that is easily locked off and run remotely via a laptop in the DJ booth when one of a… View this story
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
PSW Staff 01/08/09 04:25 PM, 0 CommentsWhen Guy Charbonneau first read Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, it almost looked like a My Space Friends List for his Le Mobile remote recording truck. “I did a quick count and realized that Le Mobile has recorded forty-one of them,” says Charbonneau. “Even I found that a bit amazing.” Among the top 20 on the list, Le Mobile has recorded nine: Aretha Franklin (1), Ray Charles (2), Bob Dylan (7), Stevie Wonder (9),… View this story
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Mark Frink 12/31/08 12:35 PM, 0 CommentsThis year is the tipping point for digital consoles in regional and festival sound reinforcement. Discussions of sound quality aside, the benefits of digital consoles – consistency, repeatability, recall and automation – force users to adopt the new way and the advantage it brings to live events where the same console is not dragged from one gig to the next. Vendors contemplating the purchase of a console must ask themselves who will be using their new mixing board, who the… View this story
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
PSW Staff 12/30/08 04:01 PM, 0 CommentsTouring in support of their most recent album, Accelerate, R.E.M. selected Oxnard, California-based Rat Sound to handle sound reinforcement requirements, with Brett Eliason serving as FOH engineer and George Squiers handling monitor mix honors. Clair Brothers sublet two Midas XL8 digital mixing consoles (for house and monitors) to Rat Sound for the tour. “We pushed for the Midas consoles,” Eliason notes, adding, “Having the Midas preamps at the front end and a true 24-bit, 96 kHz digital resolution were the… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Slideshow • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Engineer • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer • Technician -
Monday, December 29, 2008
Keith Clark 12/29/08 04:43 PM, 0 CommentsFounded in 1994 by Lollapalooza veteran Kevin Lyman, the Vans Warped Tour has now grown to feature as many as 100 bands per stop, spread among numerous stages. This year (2008), North America’s longest running tour traveled to well over 40 different cities, sometimes going from stop to stop for more than a full week without a day off. A few years ago, as part of the Warped Eco Initiative (WEI) to “clean up and green up,” the tour deployed… 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
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Amplifier • Concert • Consoles • Engineer • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Mixer • Monitoring • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer • Technician -
Monday, December 22, 2008
PSW Staff 12/22/08 04:37 PM, 0 CommentsAviom has announced the release of a major firmware upgrade for its Pro64 Series of digital snake and audio networking products. Available for free download from the Aviom website, www.aviom.com, the new release includes support for m-control for Yamaha digital consoles. With m-control, a user has direct access to the preamp settings on Aviom’s 6416m Mic Input Modules from the user interface of most Yamaha digital consoles outfitted with a 6416Y2 A-Net Interface Card. The m-control feature offers another control… View this story
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