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Monday, August 31, 2009
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08/31/09 03:10 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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Friday, August 14, 2009
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08/14/09 10:12 AM,
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Worship Facilities Conference & Expo (WFX) has announced its lineup of dynamic keynote presentations for WFX Charlotte, scheduled to take place October 27-30, 2009 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. WFX is the leading event where church leadership teams connect with tools and technology to create meaningful places and powerful worship experiences. WFX attendees will gain insight from five uplifting keynotes delivered by church visionaries from around the country who will share their inspiring experiences, sponsored by…
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Bennett Prescott
08/12/09 03:56 PM,
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I’ve been trying to get my ugly mitts on a Soundcraft Vi6 since I first saw one at AES two years ago. Tom Der had one to spare this summer and shipped it down to Asbury Park, NJ where Jason Dermer’s company, TSL, will be putting it through its paces. Since I do a lot of work with Jason, I got assigned the duty of figuring out how the brightly lit control surface works, getting it set up, mixing the…
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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08/11/09 04:04 PM,
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Summer weather finally came to the Midwest last weekend, just in time this year’s Lollapalooza at Grant Park in downtown Chicago. But temperatures in the 90s with high humidity did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the all-star line-up or the crowds that packed the park each night. At least two of the headline artists featured at Lollapalooza utilized Shure wireless microphone systems for their live performances. On the rainy opening night, Depeche Mode slogged through the mud circa Woodstock…
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Friday, August 07, 2009
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08/07/09 06:01 AM,
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This summer, London-based sound engineer Harry Bishop has provided live audio systems for a variety of festivals in England, including the One Taste festival in Hyde Park and several festivals in association with Chai Wallahs, an organization dedicated to providing an eclectic blend of high-quality musical acts. Bishop is utilizing Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, which have helped him make the conversion from analog to digital during the hectic festival season. At the One Taste festival, Bishop deployed Soundcraft Vi6 consoles at…
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Monday, July 20, 2009
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07/20/09 09:27 AM,
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The recent seventh annual Revelstoke Music Festival brought blues, rock, acoustic, Latin and World Music artists together in a sylvan outdoor setting on the Columbia River near the Selkirk Mountains and Glacier Pass in southeast British Columbia, with Northwest Global Entertainment (NWGE) of Kelowna, BC providing focused, high quality audio for the outdoor venue with a wide range Martin Audio system components. The eclectic musical lineup including Donald Ray Johnson, Nuna’Y, Red-Eye Empire, Kyemara, Valdy, Rick Garvin, Blind Spot, Ghost…
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07/20/09 06:56 AM,
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K-array self-powered live performance loudspeakers, available in the U.S. from Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, made their U.S. debut at Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over an 11-day period leading up to the July 4 holiday weekend. The event’s principal production provider, Clearwing Productions, put the K-array systems to use at JoJo’s Martini Lounge, one of 11 stages at the lakefront festival park, in addition to integrating a complement of Sennheiser evolution 900 and 600 Series wired…
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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07/15/09 08:08 AM,
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Airshow Mastering’s East Coast studios are relocating to a larger facility in Takoma Park, Maryland from its long-time operations base in Springfield, Virginia, with the new facility incorporating two mastering studios, each equipped with an eight-channel Metric Halo ULN-8 interface outfitted with the latest 2d upgrades and running v5 software in conjunction with soundBlade software from Sonic Studio, LLC. Airshow Mastering co-owner Charlie Pilzer comments, “The MIO is an integral part of the design at the new facility. I have…
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
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07/09/09 07:26 AM,
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Turner Field, home of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves, originally opened as the Centennial Olympic Stadium for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Following the games, it was converted to a baseball park, with was part of the plan all along, and the Braves moved in at the start of the 1997 season. A new stadium-wide sound reinforcement system for the 49,000-seat venue, implemented this past off-season, features a distributed approach, utilizing custom-built loudspeakers that would easily be installed in…
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Monday, July 06, 2009
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07/06/09 08:02 AM,
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“Opera at the Ballpark” returned to San Francisco at AT&T Park last month with a free simulcast of Tosca, setting a new ballpark attendance record for the San Francisco Opera with an estimated 27,000 viewers. For its fourth simulcast, Bay Area rental house Pro Media/UltraSound turned to Meyer Sound loudspeakers, subwoofers and processing to meet the unique task of presenting a live performance from the stage of the War Memorial Opera House to a crowded sports stadium. David Bowers of…
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