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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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02/28/13 02:50 PM,
The University of Utah’s Libby Gardner Hall is large enough to comfortably accommodate a 200-member choir, an 80-piece orchestra, and nearly 700 audience members. It is acoustically and aesthetically stunning, with a warm, rich reverb conveyed by wood panel walls arranged in a spectacular geometry. For years, the school struggled to provide the hall with sound reinforcement for spoken word, solos, and non-classical musical forms that matched the splendor of unamplified instruments. That struggle ended with the purchase of a…
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Dennis A. Bohn
11/06/12 01:28 PM,
This article is provided by Rane Corporation. The dynamic range of an audio passage is the ratio of the loudest signal to the quietest signal. For signal processors the magnitude of the power supply voltages restricts the maximum output signal and the noise floor determines the minimum output signal. Professional-grade signal processing equipment can output maximum levels of +26 dBu, with the best noise floors being down around -94 dBu. This gives a dynamic range of 120 dB—an impressive…
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
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07/19/12 11:25 AM,
In addition to comfortable rooms and splendid amenities, the Hilton Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan offers over 7,000 square-feet of flexible event and meeting space for wedding receptions, parties, conferences, and the like. An array of microphone and line-level inputs tie into a sound reinforcement system that had been working for the Hilton and its guests admirably for over a decade. When, after extended 24/7 service, one of the system’s Ashly amplifiers gave up the ghost, the Hilton asked for…
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
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05/08/12 08:48 AM,
Peavey has announced that the IPR 1600 DSP and IPR 3000 DSP power amplifiers are now shipping. Loaded with a proprietary digital signal processing suite, IPR DSP Series amps are live production tools for both front-of-house and monitors. The IPR 1600 DSP and IPR 3000 DSP power amplifiers combine loudspeaker management with the light weight power and performance of the original Peavey IPR power amplifiers. The onboard digital signal processing system includes preset banks for popular loudspeaker types and configurations,…
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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03/16/12 11:28 AM,
Ruby Skye, one of San Francisco’s premiere nightclubs, recently upgraded its DJ monitor rig with custom EAW loudspeakers powered by Powersoft K Series amplifiers with digital signal processing. The owners tapped their long-time audio and video vendor JK Sound, also of San Francisco, to design and install the new system. “Ruby Skye is a very high profile DJ/Dance club that hosts famous DJs from all over the world,” explains Brad Katz, lead systems integrator for JK Sound. “It was extremely…
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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01/30/12 03:00 PM,
Summit Ridge Christian Fellowship located in Spokane, Washington, recently upgraded their worship services with a new sound system powered by Powersoft amplifiers. The church leadership worked closely with AGI Professional, located in Eugene, Oregon, to design a system that would accommodate not only their contemporary services but also their requirement for the system to be portable with easy set-up. “Summit Ridge is part of a growing segment of churches that doesn’t own a brick and mortar building but instead leases…
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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06/29/11 09:27 AM,
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In 2010, Powersoft, entered into a strategic partnership with EAW which would allow both companies to integrate proprietary EAW DSP algorithms into Powersoft’s K Series power amplifier line when equipped with DSP modules. This month Powersoft has announced that the latest software upgrades for Powersoft’s K Series DSP amplifiers now support EAW Focusing as a result of this collaboration between EAW and Powersoft engineers. “EAW users will benefit greatly from Greyboxes residing within the K Series DSP,” explains Thomas Mittelmann,…
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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06/22/11 04:30 PM,
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Powersoft has announced the introduction of M Series DSP+ETH power amplifiers outfitted with 24-bit/48 kHz AD/DA converters with 56-bit for internal processing. With two inputs and outputs each for the 2-channel version and four inputs and outputs each for the 4-channel version, the system offers per channel five bi-quad filters for system equalization, eliminating the need for outboard equalizers, plus two crossovers and eight bi-quad filters. Each channel has dual dynamic processors with arbitrary input/output curve and adjustable time constants.…
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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06/14/11 05:45 AM,
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When the upscale Hotel Jerome and restaurant Silver Queen, both located in Aspen, approached Colorado-based A/V designer and integrator Halcyon Productions with woes of ailing and difficult-to-control sound systems, co-owner Heath Manning prescribed Ashly Audio’s ne24.24M modular DSP together with the incredibly easy-to-use WR-5 wall mount remote control. The cost-effective units sound great and provide an appropriately simple level of control for the often harried staff of both establishments. “User control is a critical issue in the commercial atmosphere of…
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
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06/09/11 10:30 AM,
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For anyone who lives to make music and pines for a soulmate, it would be hard not to envy Irish folk vocalist Cara Dillon and her husband Sam Lakeman. The two met in the band Equation and quickly left to walk a sure and steady path to artistic, commercial, and familial success. Winning dozens of awards and countless accolades, Dillon’s otherworldly voice takes the spotlight, and the duo have created and produced four solid albums on Rough Trade Records and,…
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