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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Craig Leerman 11/28/12 11:37 AM,Recently a young person asked me about my work, and as I explained some of the various aspects, it triggered something in my brain. I realized that I had actually just barely scratched the surface in terms of telling him about the wide range of responsibilities that many of us have. For example, we’re regularly involved with sales before the show (and often during and after). From simply speaking to clients about their needs, to putting bids together, to being… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Production • Feature • Study Hall • Production • Audio • Backline • Lighting • Rigging • Staging • Video • Business • Engineer • Stage • Technician -
Monday, November 12, 2012
Craig Leerman 11/12/12 06:23 PM,The CL5 is the largest model in the new Yamaha CL Series of digital consoles. The line-up comprises three consoles, the CL1, CL3 and CL5, all founded on the company’s Centralogic interface and ranging in scale from 48 to 72 mono plus eight stereo inputs. All offer 16 DCAs, 24 mix/8 matrix output buses, eight mute groups, 300 scene memories, and recording options. The CL5 provides three banks of eight channel faders in addition to eight Centralogic and two master… View this story
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Craig Leerman 11/05/12 06:12 PM,Hi. My name is Craig, and I’m a gearaholic. I tried to find a 12-step program, but quite frankly if I have to move gear more than six steps, I’m going to need a hand truck because my back isn’t what it used to be. It’s not just that I like gear; it’s that I’m addicted to it. I fall asleep reading equipment catalogs. I bypass articles in trade magazines, unless they’re talking specifically about gear, to look at the… View this story
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Craig Leerman 09/10/12 05:09 PM,The Olson M-191 is one of the more interesting-looking microphones I’ve run across, a hybrid metal and plastic unit that has a style all it’s own. Olson Electronics may not be a familiar name. Started by Sid Olson in Akron, OH in 1961, the company grew into a large retail chain that carried a wide variety of consumer electronics, including stereos, CB radios, TV antennas, parts, tubes, batteries, and car audio equipment. Olson Electronics was sold in the late 1960s… View this story
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Craig Leerman 08/29/12 05:24 PM,Like the majority of us working in the audio biz, I love music. Growing up in the 1970s, I was fortunate that my favorite FM radio station played a pretty diverse selection of musical styles, including folk, soft rock, pop, disco, R&B, rock, and even heavy metal. While exposed to quite a few musical styles and artists, I developed personal favorites. Most Saturdays would find me at the record store, spending the few bucks earned that week from mowing lawns… View this story
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Craig Leerman 07/31/12 06:24 PM,The Radial Engineering ProD8 is an 8-channel, rack-mountable passive direct box that is optimized for use with keyboards, but it has many other uses at gigs as well. The eight channels can each be used with mono sources, or with stereo sources that it can merge to mono. The unit also offers loop-through routing capabilities, as well as an effects loop on every channel. Like all Radial units I’ve worked with over the years, the ProD8 is very well built.… View this story
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Craig Leerman 07/30/12 07:25 AM,You never know what you’ll come across at a yard sale – a few months ago, I found this little beauty, a Kent DM-17 microphone. Kent was a brand established by Buegeleisen & Jacobson musical instrument distributors, which was based in New York City in the early 1960s. It was known primarily as a guitar brand, with some of the early guitars made by Guyatone and Hagstrom. In addition to guitars and basses, the Kent name was on amplifiers, guitar… View this story
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Monday, July 09, 2012
Craig Leerman 07/09/12 09:36 AM,Live recording has benefitted mightily from the advances in digital audio, and it’s also offered a lot of pluses for recording in general, including the ability to manipulate audio in a computer using software programs that allow basic mixing and editing functions, along with doing “creative” things like sample audio sources, replace existing sounds, change pitch and tempo. Another bonus is the facility to transfer files quickly from storage media to computers or even over the Internet with no loss… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Product • Digital • Digital Audio Workstations • Microphone • Software • Sound Reinforcement -
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Craig Leerman 06/28/12 04:12 PM,It’s always a good idea to have a spare mixer on hand at every show. Years ago I learned this valuable lesson first hand while freelancing as an A1 for an A/V company. Let’s take a trip in the wayback machine… We were setting up the sound system for a large general session at a corporate show when I discovered that the house console would not power up. It turned out that the rack housing the power supplies for the… View this story
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Craig Leerman 05/24/12 04:16 PM,If you were a musician in the 1970s or are a fan of vintage gear, the name Univox should be familiar. Merson Musical Products, a musical instrument division of Unicord Incorporated, made and marketed a wide range of products with the Univox brand, including guitars, keyboards and cool-looking blue Tolex-covered guitar and bass amps. In addition, Merson Musical Products was the U.S. importer of Marshall amps, Korg keyboards and other lines including Tempro brand drums (my first kit). Some big… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Blog • Poll • Study Hall • Microphone • Sound Reinforcement
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