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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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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Keith Clark 01/05/12 09:37 AM,When noting the contributions of Don and Carolyn Davis to the professional audio industry, it’s hard to know where to even start. Their book, Sound System Engineering, originally published in 1973 (and since updated), remains a standard audio and systems resource. Founders of SynAudCon, Don and Carolyn established the industry’s pre-imminent and most respected (and independent) educational resource, teaching thousands the essential concepts of audio and acoustics that in turn has led to remarkable advancements in systems and sound quality… View this story
Filed in: AV • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Training • Analog • AV • Audio • Digital • Education • Sound Reinforcement • Technician -
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Jim Cunningham 11/10/11 06:32 AM, 0 CommentsArtificial reverberation, or echo as it is often called, is one of the most useful effects available to the recording engineer. Recently there has been an explosion of reverb devices available in the marketplace, and to compete for your dollars, they all must claim to be the best if not the ultimate machine of all time. Actually, each has strong and weak points, so the purpose of this article will be to investigate the four basic types and see how… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Audio • Digital • Education • Mixer • Signal • Software • Studio • System -
Friday, November 04, 2011
Gary D. Davis 11/04/11 08:43 AM,R-e/p: Dick, how did you choose an engineer for the Dylan album? Dick LaPalm: I left the decision up to Rob. I asked him who should do it. At the time we had 3 guys. Rob came back after a couple of days and said, “I should do it.” I said, “Fine.” R-e/p: Rob, why did you decide to do it? Rob Fraboni: Mainly because I was really familiar with Bob’s music, as well as The Band’s. I’ve been listening… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Analog • Audio • Education • Engineer • Mixer • Monitoring • Studio • Technician -
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
PSW Staff 10/12/11 02:47 PM,The story of Clair Brothers starts in 1954, when a grocer decided to purchase a PA system as a Christmas gift for his two sons, Gene and Roy Clair. “He had no knowledge of electronics or anything!” exclaimed Roy Clair of the extremely unusual present. “I like to think my father was ‘Clair’-voyent in choosing this as a gift.” The two brothers enjoyed using their PA to provide sound reinforcement for local dances, Easter egg hunts, etc.“The PA bug had… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Poll • Slideshow • Study Hall • Analog • Audio • Business • Concert • Education • Installation • Interconnect • Loudspeaker • Mixer • Remote • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • System -
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Gary D. Davis 08/18/11 01:20 PM, 0 CommentsR-e/p: Tell us about redoing the control room for Village. GEORGE AUGSPURGER: From my standpoint, even before getting into the subtleties of those things that the client may like, there are a number of things you do in any control room. One is that you try to get the thing as nearly as possible to be bilaterally symmetrical. You’re stuck with two channel and four channel stereo, which are both oriented left and right, and to get any kind of… View this story
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Jerry Ferree 06/10/11 03:31 PM, 0 CommentsEveryone who listens to pop music has at some time heard that weird swishing effect swooping down through a drum solo or a vocal group making them sound rather like a long-distance short wave broadcast. Most engineers will tell you that this is caused by phasing, yet most have only a vague idea of the mechanics involved and few still are able to produce a controlled effect. Let’s take a quick look at what happens to produce this effect and… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Analog • Education • Processor • Studio -
Friday, June 03, 2011
Oliver Berliner 06/03/11 04:13 PM, 0 CommentsA short while ago a mild furor was generated when AM radio stations began to receive stereophonic promotion records and discovered to their horror that the soloists were 3 dB or more too loud when the stereo discs were played monophonically. It was quickly determined by these broadcasters that an instrument or voice which was recorded with equal intensity on both of the channels would encounter the effects of simple addition of the two portions and become at least fifty… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Audio • Consoles • Processor • Signal • Studio -
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
PSW Staff 04/05/11 10:25 AM, 2 CommentsRecording to an original Edison Cylinder machine is an incredible experience to watch. Thanks to Gerald Fabris of the Edison Historic Site, Bruno Caruso (great grand nephew of Enrico), the Hot Tamale Brass Band, the AES, the Audio Program at the New England Institute of Art and especially to Thomas Edison, we have the opportunity to watch a recording session right here. Recorded on February 2, 2010, 100 years to the day after the publishing of the recorded song “Take… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Analog • Audio • Education • Engineer • Mixer • Signal • Studio • System -
Friday, April 01, 2011
Paul D. Lehrman 04/01/11 09:20 AM, 0 Comments“The most important piece of equipment in a recording studio is the control room,” says Phil Greene, chief engineer and part-owner of Normandy Sound, located in Warren, Rhode Island. It’s that kind of thinking that led Normandy, one of the first 24-track studios in the region, to become the first facility in the six states to feature a certified Live-End/Dead-End control room. Since the new room opened last October, business has been good, but that’s not necessarily due to the… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Analog • Audio • Business • Education • Engineer • Installation • Interconnect • Mixer • Processor • Signal • Studio • System
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