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Thursday, August 05, 2010
PSW Staff 08/05/10 07:45 AM, 0 CommentsDesign and engineering firm FUNA International has outfitted Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, with BSS Audio Soundweb London processing devices. With more than three decades of experience in designing and integrating audio systems on the world’s largest watercraft, FUNA has deployed Soundweb London devices extensively in various projects throughout the past eight years, including the last four new cruise ships built out of its Turku, Finland manufacturing facility. The ship’s audio system,… View this story
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
PSW Staff 06/13/10 12:19 PM, 0 CommentsSee PSW’s comprehensive 2010 InfoComm coverage. BSS Audio has added a cost-effective break-in box to its Soundweb London family of digital signal processors, the new BLU-BIB input expander, which compliments the eight other members of the family and represents an inexpensive solution to increasing the number of inputs in a Harman HiQnet networked system. The BLU-BIB features eight analog audio inputs on standard terminal block connectors and the 256-channel, low latency, fault tolerant digital audio bus, also found on the… View this story
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
PSW Staff 05/06/10 06:16 PM, 0 CommentsThis weekend (May 8), musical icon Julie Andrews will be performing on London’s O2 Arena in “The Gift of Music—an Evening with Julie Andrews.” The sound system, provided by Capital Sound, will be headed by Meyer Sound line arrays, loudspeakers and subwoofers. Andrews, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Ian Fraser will take the audience on a musical journey through Andrews’s illustrious career that has brought the world Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and The King… View this story
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
PSW Staff 01/07/10 02:51 PM, 0 CommentsRational Acoustics, owners of Smaart and specializing in professional training in sound system optimization, has announced an upcoming slate of Smaart training classes to be held in Mexico, Venezuela, England and the U.S. The sessions in Mexico and Venezuela will be led by Sonotribe Audio Consultants, while the others will be presented by long-time Smaart guru Jamie Anderson of Rational Acoustics. Go directly to specific course outlines: Smaart Fundamentals Smaart Applications Smaart Practical/Advanced User The full Rational/Smaart Training Schedule page… View this story
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Friday, November 20, 2009
PSW Staff 11/20/09 07:08 AM, 0 CommentsBritannia Row supplied Outline Butterfly VLA line arrays at the request of the BBC and London’s Roundhouse for the 2009 Electric Proms season, which recently kicked off with the return of Robbie Williams backed by a 34-piece orchestra plus his own touring band. The system comprised 12 Outline CDH 483 hi packs per side, supplemented by three Mantas “wide boxes” in each hang, as well as 12 Subtech 218 subwoofers. Outline T9 amplifiers drive all loudspeakers, with control via Dolby… View this story
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wayne Wadhams 08/27/09 03:35 PM, 1 CommentThere is no way to say for sure what specific elements, sounds or aspects of a record make it a HIT. Yet every hit has a few key things that grab our attention and make it memorable. Reviewing a long list of hits, we find that many of the same or analogous elements work over and over, in their separate contexts, to create their charisma. Some of these have to do with the song itself, others with the way it… View this story
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
PSW Staff 07/29/09 07:08 AM, 0 CommentsThe Norwegian Parliament in Oslo is using a large number of BSS Audio Soundweb devices for different applications, covering meeting rooms, hearing rooms and the main parliament assembly auditorium. The plenary chamber recently saw a major upgrade to a Soundweb London system, relieving the older Soundweb original system from its duties, which it has been performing since 2002. The new system, installed by Norwegian BSS Audio distributor LydRommet AS, includes four BLU-320 break-in / out devices in an 8 x… View this story
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Monday, July 27, 2009
PSW Staff 07/27/09 05:08 PM, 0 CommentsInfoComm International will be offering live event training at PLASA09 (PLASA 2009), being held this September (13-16) in Earls Court, London. From September 13-15, InfoComm will be teaching Staging and Event Management, a class designed for live event managers, technical directors, and AV technicians. “The ability to manage technical departments, clients and venues is a learned skill. Clients expect to see a return on investment, and live event professionals are expected to maintain budgets, weigh profitability and explore opportunities to… View this story
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PSW Staff 07/27/09 03:28 PM, 0 CommentsThis year’s iTunes Festival, relocated to The Roundhouse in North London, features more than 60 artists playing live throughout July, with the wide range of talent including commercial mainstays such as Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol, acoustic performers like Newton Faulkner, quirky performance artists with wide dynamic ranges (like Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan), and some good old fashioned R&B. Sound reinforcement for the festival is headed by Martin Audio W8LM mini line arrays, joined by a range… View this story
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Friday, July 17, 2009
PSW Staff 07/17/09 12:31 PM, 0 CommentsThe awards and accolades earned by the work of Stile Antico would be an accomplishment for even a seasoned vocal ensemble, but their meteoric rise to fame in the classical music world makes their successes all the more impressive. Comprised of twelve young British singers, Stile Antico first attracted the attention of harmonia mundi usa’s artistic director, Robina Young, at the 2005 Early Music Network International Young Artists’ Competition. From there, the group’s debut disc on the harmonia mundi label… View this story
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