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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Craig Leerman 04/26/12 11:10 AM,My Baltimore-area high school theater was outfitted with the first quality PA system I ever worked with. It had JBL horns and cabinets in a center cluster, powered by Crown amplifiers, with a 6-channel TAPCO mixer in the sound booth and Electro-Voice 664 microphones on stage. Initially, to my finely tuned 10th grade ears, the system didn’t sound very good – the performers could barely be heard, and there was a lot of feedback. It wasn’t long before I figured… View this story
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Craig Leerman 04/13/12 10:52 AM,The M-480 digital console is a primary component in the steadily expanding V-Mixing system family from Roland Systems Group that also includes other console models, as well as digital snakes, personal mixers, protocol interfaces and the new R-1000 multi-track digital recorder. The M-480 is the largest console in the series (other models include the 400, 380 and 300), offering 48 mixing channels plus 6 stereo returns (for a total of 60 channels), left/center/right outputs, 16 aux buses and 8 matrices.… View this story
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Monday, March 05, 2012
Craig Leerman 03/05/12 12:38 PM,I started collecting microphones long ago, when at a large flea market, I spotted an Electro-Voice 664. The chrome was pitted, the windscreen was dented, and the guy selling it didn’t know if it even worked. But it was only a few dollars and it reminded me of my years working tech theater in high school, so I bought it. From then on, I looked for old mics everywhere, and pretty soon had built a sizable collection. They’re really interesting,… View this story
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Friday, February 17, 2012
PSW Staff 02/17/12 01:55 PM,When I started working with audio, most companies built their own main and monitor loudspeaker enclosures. Some did it because it could save them money, but the majority did it because they wanted products that were simply not commercially available, so they had to design and build the systems themselves. Today there are a multitude of loudspeaker companies making a wide variety of different enclosures – with more designs hitting the market seemingly every week – but there are still… View this story
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Craig Leerman 01/24/12 12:15 PM,Alto Professional recently sent me a pair of TS115A loudspeakers to check out, and they turned out to be a gig saver - but more on that in a bit. Let’s look at the specs first. Part of the company’s TRUESONIC Series, the TS115A is a 2-way self-powered model that utilizes a 15-in woofer for the lows and a 1-in neodymium compression driver for the highs. The injection molded cabinet measures 26.8 (h) x 16.9 (w) x 15.2 (d) inches… View this story
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Craig Leerman 01/10/12 09:17 AM,The Danley Sound Labs SM-60F is a passive, full-range loudspeaker that utilizes Tom Danley’s Synergy Horn concept, where multiple drivers covering different frequency ranges all play into a single horn. It’s loaded with 2 x 8-inch woofers and a 1 x 5-inch mid/high coaxial driver. Dispersion is 60 x 60 degrees. The Danley TH-Mini is a compact subwoofer that uses a single 12-inch driver in a tapped horn configuration. At only 24 x 15 x 22 .5 inches and 76… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • News • Blog • Road Test • Poll • Product • Loudspeaker • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer -
Monday, November 14, 2011
Craig Leerman 11/14/11 05:11 PM,Long ago, an old sound guy imparted to me words of wisdom about the optimum way to mic instruments: “Pick your best microphone, put it on your best stand, place it in the best spot, point it in the best direction, and hope for the best.” That statement seems a bit trite, but it also contains truth. So where do we start in this pursuit of the “best” in all aspects of instrument mic’ing? While it’s true that vocal mics… View this story
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Craig Leerman 10/11/11 11:32 AM, 0 CommentsLike most married couples, my wife Kelly and I don’t always agree on every subject, but when it comes to feedback we both absolutely agree that it’s a good thing. What? Yes, you read that correctly - I said feedback is good. Understand that I’m not talking about a 1K squeal that erupts from the PA just as the vocalist starts to sing a big ballad and decides to bend over the monitor wedge and get closer to the fans.… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Opinion • Poll • Business • Measurement • Processor • Sound Reinforcement • Audio -
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Craig Leerman 09/20/11 03:37 PM,Having a roomful of high-qualify professional audio gear is great, but it’s not a system until you can connect everything together. The hub for system interconnectivity is the mixing console, nowadays usually a digital model. While digital consoles save us the time and cables in not having to hook up racks full of EQs, effects processors, gates, and compressors, there are still a multitude of signals flowing to and from the console that all need to be connected. Typical inputs… View this story
Filed in: AV • Feature • Poll • Product • Slideshow • AV • Consoles • Digital • Interconnect • Monitoring • Networking -
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Craig Leerman 07/28/11 03:11 PM, 1 CommentOn some of my gigs, it’s not uncommon to see a person walk up to the house console, reach in front of the mix engineer at that console, adjust a knob or fader, and then walk away. For many in our business, mixing a live event is an individual operation, but my company has embraced a team approach to mixing. I call it mixing by consensus, and we transitioned to it primarily due to our work with corporate events. The… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Poll • Consoles • Engineer • Mixer • Sound Reinforcement • Technician
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