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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
PSW Staff 08/18/09 01:56 PM,Pop music superstar Gloria Estefan swept into the U.K. in late July, headlining at the Summer Pops Music Festival at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, on a concert tour that is intended to be her last, also covering Latin and South America plus European festival dates. Clair Brothers Audio is supplying the tour with both a Midas XL8 live performance system and Klark Teknik DN9696 hard disc recorder. By the time the tour arrived in Liverpool, FOH engineer Mark Dowdle had clocked… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/18/09 11:06 AM, 0 CommentsBritain’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… View this story
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Monday, August 17, 2009
PSW Staff 08/17/09 11:35 AM, 0 CommentsThe annual July 4th concert performance at the Ft. Wayne campus of Indiana/Purdue University featured four local acts capped off by nationally known country singer Jo Dee Messina and a spectacular finale featuring the Ft. Wayne Symphony Orchestra performing in tandem with choreographed fireworks. To accommodate all of the performers, Sticha Bros, who’d been contracted for the event by Northern Productions of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, set up a larger 60- x 60-foot stage next to a smaller 60- x… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/17/09 10:28 AM,Mackie describes the HD1531 as a “15” High-Definition Powered Loudspeaker System”. Yep, it’s got a 15” woofer, and it’s a three-way system, and it’s powered. Now what’s all this about being “High Definition”? I suppose I could try to explain it, but it might be easier if you just go here (pdf) and get the Mackie explanation. The ordinary every-day non-HD attributes of this powered loudspeaker include 900 watts of power with an 1800 watt peak. Power is divided 700/100/100… View this story
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
PSW Staff 08/11/09 02:42 PM, 0 CommentsThe Minnetonka Performing Arts Center, located at Minnetonka (Minnesota) High School, has a new sound reinforcement system thanks to Electronic Design Company (EDC) of Shoreview, Minnesota. The center, a joint operation between the City of Minnetonka and the school district, recently underwent extensive remodeling, including a new sound system for the “Art Center on 7,” a 680-seat proscenium theater headed by NEXO GEO line arrays in a left-center-right (LCR) and subwoofer configuration. Bryce Larson of Art Center on 7, explains,… View this story
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Monday, August 10, 2009
PSW Staff 08/10/09 08:22 AM, 0 CommentsBosch Communications Systems Division has announced the release of IRIS-Net V2.1.1 software offering new features developed for both live audio and installation markets. Additions such as two-, three-, four-, and five-way FIR-Drive DSP blocks for NetMax make it easier to take full advantage of the performance that Electro-Voice FIR-Drive processing and hardware technology offer. The newly added Scene Manager provides a new level of customization for control and recall of DSP parameters within EV NetMax. Additional User Controls and DSP… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/10/09 06:56 AM, 2 CommentsWhen planning the upgrade from analog to digital for its Studio 12 in Montreal, CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public broadcasters, found that a 48-channel Solid State Logic C200 HD digital console with two SSL MORSE Stage Boxes was just what they needed for the new all-digital mission of the network. The C200 HD will be used for live to Pro Tools production and post production for radio and television presentations of music performances. “We needed to replace our old analogue console,… View this story
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Friday, August 07, 2009
PSW Staff 08/07/09 11:47 AM, 0 CommentsCrossword 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,… View this story
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
PSW Staff 08/06/09 06:15 AM, 0 CommentsAudinate has announced that Peavey has expanded its networking options for the MediaMatrix product portfolio by including Audinate’s networking solution. The first MediaMatrix products to have Audinate’s advanced networking technology are the NION nX product family and the CAB 4n audio bridge. The NION system is a configurable DSP core for the commercial, engineered systems marketplace. The CAB 4n is a break-out box designed specifically for NION-based systems. In addition, support for legacy MediaMatrix makes the CAB 4n an efficient… View this story
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
PSW Staff 08/04/09 03:19 PM, 0 CommentsRegistration is now open for fall classes of the NSCA University Electronic Systems Technician (EST) Training Series, providing convenient and in-depth training. Training starts September 14 and runs for 38 weeks. The Electronic Systems Technician (EST) curriculum includes a comprehensive overview of the entire commercial electronic systems industry. Students learn about a variety of systems, applications, national codes and standards while gaining real-life, on-the-job training as well as the ability to: • Interpret electrical drawings, site plans and more •… View this story
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