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Thursday, April 01, 2010
PSW Staff 04/01/10 10:31 AM, 0 CommentsNearly two decades since a handful of congregants gathered in a rented school cafeteria for Kensington Church’s first service, today Kensington’s five campuses are the epitome of activity. Bustling with activity, there’s always something going on from youth programs and community groups to multiple services throughout the week. Kensington’s main campus in Troy, Michigan recently upgraded its sanctuary with a new Avid VENUE Profile system. As veteran engineer, Tim Corder explains, the VENUE is the first phase of an upgrade… View this story
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
PSW Staff 03/16/10 02:50 PM, 1 CommentAvid has announced that two of primetime television’s biggest shows, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, are relying on Avid VENUE live sound systems for their live broadcasts this season. Both shows, each of which average more than 20 million viewers per episode, depend on the VENUE system’s sound quality and flexibility to deliver stellar audio mixes. Creative Sound Solutions (CSS), which handles the music mixes for American Idol and the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars, required… View this story
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Monday, March 01, 2010
PSW Staff 03/01/10 03:40 PM, 0 CommentsVeteran mix engineer Andy Meyer is utilizing an Avid VENUE D-Show console for his front of house mixing for the latest leg of the Guns N Roses world tour. Meyer, who has used VENUE consoles since 2006 on artists ranging from Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson to Sevendust, Motley Crue and Rage Against The Machine, points to the console’s flexibility as a major asset on this particular tour. “It’s a big band – three guitars, two keyboards, bass, drums and… View this story
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
PSW Staff 02/10/10 04:44 PM, 1 CommentQuestion: How did you get your start in the business? Kevin Elson: I played in bands in junior high and high school, and then started doing sessions. I did my first sessions, playing keyboards with Lynyrd Skynryd, when I was 16 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. I had been playing in a band that was the beginning of 38 Special. The singer, Donnie Van Zant, had a brother, Ronnie, who sang with a band called One Percent, and that band became… View this story
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
PSW Staff 09/02/09 11:19 AM, 0 CommentsBeginning next week (September 9), Avid will travel across the Americas to demonstrate the newest member of its Digidesign VENUE family of live sound consoles, the Digidesign VENUE SC48, an excellent tool for small to mid-sized houses of worship, clubs, corporate A/V companies and touring companies. In a series of local events, registered attendees will receive two hours of hands-on training from veteran live sound engineer and Digidesign Market Manager Robert Scovill. Scovill will instruct in the features and benefits… View this story
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Monday, August 31, 2009
PSW Staff 08/31/09 10:17 AM, 0 CommentsThe 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour, which culminated in August with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdel Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, was supported by sound reinforcement courtesy of Sound Image of Escondido, California, which provided JBL VERTEC line arrays. The 2009 No Doubt Summer Tour reunited one of the most successful rock groups of the 1990s, whose 1995 release Tragic Kingdom has sold more than 16 million copies to date. In recent years, No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani… View this story
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
PSW Staff 08/27/09 05:12 PM, 1 CommentThe Fillmore Charlotte, a 20,000-square-foot venue at the North Carolina Music Factory’s entertainment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Fourth Ward neighborhood, stays true to the tradition of the original Fillmore theaters. The venue, which opened this past June with Georgia acoustic rocker Corey Smith headlining, has the Fillmore’s trademark red velvet draperies, ornate chandeliers, custom lighting and vintage concert posters. The building, once a historic Charlotte manufacturing site, was reinvigorated by Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promoter, with Soundcraft… View this story
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Mike Wireless 08/26/09 03:38 PM, 1 CommentTwo interesting developments have emerged recently under the heading of “white spaces”. First, if you recall, the FCC authorized the development and eventual marketing of “white space devices” that have now come to be known as TVBDs (TV Band Devices). However, the technical requirements for these devices are quite stringent; specifically, that they must sense other signals and take a lower priority in any given location than existing TV broadcasts and wireless microphones. Microsoft, working with researchers at Harvard University,… View this story
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
PSW Staff 08/25/09 02:24 PM, 0 CommentsThe Christian Life Assembly (CLA) Church in Langley, British Columbia is a tech-savvy multi-campus congregation that offers both media streaming and podcast downloads of its services from its website. When the church began an extensive upgrade of its facilities last year, a new sound reinforcement system for its 1,500-seat sanctuary was high on its list of priorities. The new system is headed by three EAW KF730 compact line arrays, SB730 compact line array subwoofers and SB1000z large-format subwoofers supporting program… View this story
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PSW Staff 08/25/09 07:16 AM, 0 CommentsThe Southern Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, BC (Canada), recently hosted a live performance by legendary comic Bill Cosby on a Friday night and a high-energy rock concert called “Hot Summer Nights” the following Saturday, with both performances handled by the same sound reinforcement system headed by Martin Audio line arrays, loudspeakers, monitors, amplifiers and processors. Local audio provider Northwest Global Entertainment of Kelowna, BC, was confident in the capabilities of the system to provide premium audio quality for the… View this story
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