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Monday, April 02, 2012
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04/02/12 01:35 PM,
Dominated by its dramatic ceiling, featuring nearly 3,000 diamond-shaped pieces of LED-lit cut crystal, London West End membership nightclub Jalouse recently underwent a complete audio revamp as part of a general structural refurbishment, to prepare the award-winning luxury venue — owned by Moruf Yoozooph and Freddie Achom — for its next phase. The three-year old club had never been entirely happy with its original sound system. Brought in with the task of upgrading the system and resiting the DJ console,…
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Pat Brown
03/30/12 02:47 PM,
For the majority of humans, there is nothing simpler than listening to sound. You simply, well, listen. When it becomes necessary to describe the listening experience analytically, however, a host of complex equations and diagrams are required to describe even the simplest of sonic events. The benefit of mathematical analysis is that it can yield insights that are not apparent through intuition alone. Acoustic signals are easily measured, and the audio components that produce them have characteristics that can be…
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Sully
03/30/12 11:54 AM,
I was just bitten by a dog. Truthfully, not 20 minutes ago when I went to pick up a piece of gear at somebody’s house. When I pulled into the driveway, an unholy spawn of a late night dalliance between Benji and the Geico gecko waddled over to me, growled, then bit me on the f***ing ankle. I screamed like a five year old, which somehow triggered the garage door to open and spew a teenage girl carrying the gear…
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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03/21/12 10:52 AM,
Get more of the latest news from the 2012 PL+S show. AKG’s new Perception Headphone series extends the Perception line, offering an entire range of solutions for enthusiastic musicians and engineers. Three new headphone models, the K44 Perception, K77 Perception and K99 Perception, deliver AKG sound quality, a great design and comfort level at an affordable price. “It is AKG’s continued mission to offer the greatest in professional audio to industry professionals and the Perception line completes our range…
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PSW Staff
03/21/12 08:26 AM,
Get more of the latest news from the 2012 PL+S show. DPA Microphones is pleased to announce the launch of its handheld d:facto vocal mic at Prolight + Sound 2012, Hall 8, F22. In the d:facto vocal mic, DPA has pooled its years of expertise and resources to bring a high quality vocal condenser mic to the market. Bridging the gap between live performance and studio recording, d:facto offers extraordinarily natural sound, high separation and extreme SPL handling. DPA…
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PSW Staff
03/21/12 08:15 AM,
Get more of the latest news from the 2012 PL+S show. JoeCo Limited introduces the latest product in its BlackBox range of multi-channel live audio recorders and players in the form of the new BlackBox BBR64-DANTE Recorder that can record or replay 64 channels. The BBR64-DANTE is the result of JoeCo’s collaboration with Audinate, creators of the Dante digital media networking solution. The original BBR-DANTE system was released in 2011 and was able to record up to 32 channels…
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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03/20/12 01:58 PM,
Get more of the latest news from the 2012 PL+S show. Cadac is launching a complete CDC8 series production system at Prolight+Sound 2012. In addition to the CDC8 digital production console, the series will include an compact 16 channel variant, with identical processing, channel count and I/O capabilities. An Ethernet connected 16 fader ‘sidecar’ expander module is also available which will enable expansion of the control surfaces of the CDC8 console, or dedication of I/O channels on the desk…
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03/20/12 08:30 AM,
Aviom’s Pro64 Network Manager version 2.2 will be released this month and adds an important new feature for using the network with Pro16 Personal Mixing Systems. With the newest version of the Network Manager software, those using an ASI A-Net Systems Interface to feed a Pro16 Personal Mixing System can now customize the system by selecting any 16 channels from the complete 64-channel Pro64 audio network to send to each mixing zone in the system. Now an Aviom personal mixing…
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Monday, March 19, 2012
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03/19/12 08:48 AM,
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds world tour has just completed its UK arena leg, with Midas XL8 live performance systems at FOH and on monitors, supplied by Britannia Row Productions. Such is the scalability of Midas’ growing digital range that the tour will move onto PRO6s for its run of European and US dates throughout the spring and then to the new PRO2Cs for summer festival appearances. Both FOH and monitor engineer, Antony King and Nahuel Gutierrez respectively, are experienced…
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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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