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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
PSW Staff 01/13/09 06:00 AM, 0 CommentsRational Acoustics has announced the launch of the Noise Stick, a phantom-powered pink noise generator and the first acoustic test and measurement accessory product to be designed and distributed under the Rational Acoustics brand name. The Noise Stick simply plugs into a phantom-powered microphone input and it generates well-behaved pink noise. Unplug it, and it stops - the Noise Stick requires no batteries and no configuration, and doesn’t need a power switch. The Noise Stick is hand-built in the USA… View this story
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
PSW Staff 12/23/08 10:12 AM, 0 CommentsNew IE 6, IE 7 and IE 8 ear-canal headphones from Sennheiser bring pro-grade audio quality to all music enthusiasts. IE Series ear-canal headphones are designed with dynamic transducers that cover the entire frequency range with one system, while eliminating the distortion that detracts from the integrity of the original source material, even at high sound pressure levels. Ear adapters in different sizes ensure the IE headphones fit optimally, are comfortable to wear, and effectively seal off ambient noise. Good… View this story
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Monday, December 22, 2008
PSW Staff 12/22/08 11:07 AM, 0 CommentsA November tour of their homeland by Canada’s Sam Roberts Band played theatre-sized venues throughout the country, with the band’s FOH engineer Phil Hornung was faced with the prospect of using house PA systems in most venues. In order to maintain consistency of the sound, XTA distributor Sennheiser Canada supplied Hornung with a package of XTA processing options, comprising a C2 compressor, D2 dynamic EQ, E2 parametric EQ, G2 noise gate, GQ600 dual 30 band graphic EQ and DP324 SiDD… View this story
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Mark Frink 12/10/08 02:35 PM, 0 CommentsGetting the call to mix monitors for Jessica Simpson earlier this year was my surprise birthday gift from FOH engineer Monty Lee Wilkes. Following a cross-country flight early the next morning, I was programming a Yamaha PM5D at Center Staging in Burbank for the debut performance of Jessica’s country music show at Country Thunder that weekend in Wisconsin. Jessica is as beautiful inside as out, a hard-working girl from Texas whose gift to audio is a dedication to her craft… View this story
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Fletcher 12/02/08 07:02 PM, 0 CommentsIn the good old days of “making records” compression was mostly used as an envelope modification tool. But around the beginning of “the great loudness wars,” some famous studio mixer dudes found they could get more work done in a shorter period of time by removing all the dynamics from the music, then equalizing it into place in the sonic arrangement. Seeing as many of these dudes are charging several thousand dollars per song, and don’t really care how the… View this story
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PSW Staff 12/02/08 08:35 AM, 0 CommentsWith Chicago’s Grant Park as the site of his victory rally, President-elect Barack Obama addressed a crowd of 250,000 on a warm November election night, with the global press corps depending upon wireless technology to help deliver their reports to millions worldwide. “As you’d expect during a historic moment like this, there were news organizations in attendance ranging from Al Jazeera to NBC, CNN, and C-SPAN,” notes broadcast engineer George Gorzelanczyk, the man given charge of coordinating wireless frequencies for… View this story
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Wednesday, November 05, 200811/05/08 09:53 AM, 0 CommentsThe Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday (November 4) to allow technology companies like Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Motorola to produce “white spaces” devices that will use the same radio frequency (RF) spectrum now being used by wireless microphone systems. Final text of the rules is not yet available, but the order is purported to greatly reduce the amount of clear spectrum available for use by professional audio and communications equipment. The Commission adopted certain important elements of Shure’s recent wireless… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Church Sound • News • Wireless
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