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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Al Keltz
09/23/10 11:52 AM,
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Unbalanced Lines Unbalanced signal lines are characterized by the fact that the cable and connectors use only two conductors, a center conductor surrounded by a shield. Examples of unbalanced wiring are found in tip/sleeve 1/4-in guitar cords or the cables used with many CD players and tape decks which terminate with RCA phono type connectors. In an unbalanced configuration, the shield surrounds a single center conductor. The shield stays at a constant ground potential (as it is connected to ground…
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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08/31/09 04:10 PM,
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ARX Systems has announced the addition of the new and unique USB I/O Universal Transformer Isolated USB Interface to its range of precision audio tools. The USB I/O is a true “plug and play” analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog pro audio interface and requires no special driver program installation on Mac OSX, Win XP and Vista. It features transformer isolated audio inputs and outputs, with new USB analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter chipsets that are incorporated into the circuit topology, allowing maximum headroom…
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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08/27/09 11:16 AM,
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Will Allen Airshows present a series of breath-taking loops, hammerheads, spins, stalls, and other aerial maneuvers - all while Allen, known as the “Flying Tenor”, sings the national anthem of the United States and, occasionally, the anthem of Canadian live from the cockpit of his Decathlon (a two-seat fixed conventional gear light airplane). The aerobatic routine has been choreographed to harmonize with the cadence and crescendos of the anthems as Allen performs solo, with keyboard accompaniment emanating from terra firma.…
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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08/26/09 01:18 PM,
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Boulder, Colorado’s Looking Glass Arts, which provides high school students filmmaking and acting tools, techniques, and craft combines top-flight equipment such as Sennheiser microphones, headphones and wireless packages with a teaching style that that purposefully melds technical skills, art, and philosophy. “As the tools have become cheaper, I’ve watched one art form after another,” Looking Glass Arts Co-founder Mickey Houlihan remarks. “Sound engineering is a great example – people used to devote their lives to understanding the tools and developing…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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08/18/09 12:06 PM,
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Britain’s Top of the Pops (TOTP) has been a BBC institution since 1964, broadcast weekly until 2006 and occasionally as one-off specials in the following years. The latest TOTP special, broadcast on BBC2 earlier in 2009, featured performances from Franz Ferdinand, Flo-Rida, Oasis, Take That, Tom Jones, James Morrison and more, live from BBC’s Studio 4, as part of this year’s Comic Relief charity fundraising special. Aside from the significance marked by convergence of these great artists, a TOTP revival…
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Friday, August 07, 2009
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08/07/09 12:47 PM,
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Crossword Christian Church in Riverside, California recently upgraded its sound reinforcement capability on a large scale replacing the systems in its sanctuary, courtyard, and children’s wing with an assortment of Electro-Voice equipment from CBC Technical of Murrieta, California. Crossword’s new sanctuary system includes five EV Phoenix PX2152 loudspeakers in a flown left-center-right configuration (including a central cluster of three), with two Phoenix EV PX2181 subwoofers on the ground at stage left and right, as well as Dynacord VL262s compact double-six-inch,…
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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08/05/09 12:27 PM,
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d&b audiotechnik has introduced the Ti-Series, a collection of loudspeaker systems and hardware fittings specially targeted to address an extremely wide range of small- to medium-sized installation applications. The new Ti-Series is outfitted with many of the innovative technology developments featured in the company’s T-Series loudspeakers. The series comprises the Ti10L line array loudspeaker and Ti10P point source loudspeaker, with the Ti subwoofer completing the package. The unobtrusive rigging hardware allows aesthetic integration, whether ground supported or flown and there…
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Monday, August 03, 2009
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08/03/09 11:19 AM,
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Gand Concert Sound of Glenview, Illinois recently provided a NEXO GEO T, GEO S, CD18 subwoofers, PS15, PS10 and PS 8 monitors for the Evangelical Lutheran Youth of America (ELCA) Gathering, held in late July at the Superdome in New Orleans. The event was attended by 38,000 teenagers from around the world, and featured music acts including Skillet, Group 1 Crew, the Katinas, rapper Agape, and Peter Mayer from the Jimmy Buffet Band. A Sunday morning musical mass with Lutheran…
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
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07/30/09 12:05 PM,
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Viewers of the 2009 Tour de France saw hundreds of racers cover over 2,200 miles in July, each vying for the finish line on Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Elysées, and they also heard an amazing soundscape thanks to Audio-Technica AT835ST M-S stereo shotgun microphones mounted to the cameras on five motorcycles that cover the miles-long pack of racers. The AT835ST microphones were provided by the Societé Française de Production (SFP), a division of the Euro Media Group, which has been a…
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07/30/09 08:46 AM,
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Cakewalk has announced three new USB audio interfaces - the UA-25EX, UA-4FX, and UA-101, designed to quickly and easily connect and capture audio for Mac and PC. “Today’s announcement reflects our continued efforts to work with Roland to introduce powerful, inexpensive hardware solutions for the consumer and pro-audio markets,” said Michael Hoover, Cakewalk’s executive vice president of products. “From our SONAR V-Studio products to our new foray into audio and MIDI interfaces, the response from the marketplace has been very…
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