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  • Monday, May 21, 2012
    Fender Center Live With StudioLive From PreSonus
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    PSW Staff 05/21/12 10:38 AM,
    Located in Corona, California, the Fender Center for Music Education is a busy place. The 33,000-square foot building is home to a music school, a museum, two performance venues, and a recording studio. Run by the nonprofit Fender Museum of Music and the Arts Foundation, the Fender Center’s main focus is to provide music education to young people at low or no cost. As the Center’s audio engineer Kelly McGuire explains, the program has made an impact on a great… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • Recording • News • Poll • Audio • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Studio

  • First Midas PRO2 Sold Into Slovakia
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    PSW Staff 05/21/12 10:33 AM,
    Midas has announced the first sale of the PRO2 live audio system into the Slovakian market. Facilitated by Midas’ Slovakian distributor SBL Acoustics, the sale was made Patrik Kvacka, who runs his own rental company in Slovakia’s political and cultural capital of Bratislava. The new console has already been used for concerts by eclectic Berlin collective Jazzanova and British jazz and electronic band The Cinematic Orchestra. Kvacka ordered the first PRO2 after attending a demonstration of the new console for… View this post
    Filed in: Recording • News • Poll • Audio • Consoles • Digital • Sound Reinforcement • Studio

  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012
    DiGiCo SD11 Aids Australian Education
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    PSW Staff 05/15/12 04:30 PM,
    In these financially difficult times, maximizing the potential of facilities has become a key issue for the education sector. At the same time as delivering high quality education in line with modern expectations, schools need to ensure that their facilities generate their own revenue. These are the reasons why one Australian primary school has invested in DiGiCo, opening up a new market for the console manufacturer. Helensvale Primary, located on Queensland’s Gold Coast, recently finished a new performing arts centre,… View this post
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  • Allen & Heath GS-R24 Installed At COPA In South Africa
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    PSW Staff 05/15/12 01:50 PM,
    Allen & Heath’s GS-R24 Firewire recording mixer has been installed in the main recording studio at the Campus of Performing arts (COPA) in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a teaching console and to manage music students’ projects. “I needed a mixer to satisfy my students’ obsession for all things digital, and to teach them the value of what they call ‘old school’.” explains COPA’s head of production, Neill Pash. “Enter the GS-R24, new kid on the block and what I believe… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • Recording • News • Poll • Consoles • Digital • Education • Sound Reinforcement

  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    Mixing Dream Theater With A Midas Touch
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    PSW Staff 05/14/12 10:51 AM,
    Independent FOH engineer Nigel Paul is using the Midas PRO9 digital live audio system for the band’s ongoing world tour. Dream Theater has been on the road almost continuously since July 2011 in support of its 11th studio album, A Dramatic Turn Of Events. Clair Global is the audio provider. For Paul, choosing a Midas PRO Series console was an easy decision. A career-long fan of Midas analog consoles, most notably the XL4, he became an early adopter of the… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • News • Poll • Audio • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Sound Reinforcement

  • Total Events Supplies Harman-Based System For Davis Cup In Australia
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    PSW Staff 05/14/12 09:14 AM,
    Total Events, based in Geelong Victoria, supplied a Harman-based audio system for background music, MC and umpires at the Geelong Lawn Tennis Club stands for the recent Davis Cup tennis tournament in Australia. The main challenge for Total Events was keeping a minimal layout without obscuring sightlines and the company’s stock of JBL Professional VRX Constant Curvature loudspeakers was well-suited for the application due to their low visual impact. Six JBL VRX918S powered subwoofers and 12 JBL VRX932LA loudspeakers were… View this post
    Filed in: AV • Live Sound • News • Poll • Amplifier • AV • Audio • Consoles • Loudspeaker • Sound Reinforcement

  • Friday, May 11, 2012
    Real World Gear: Options Abound With The Latest Digital Consoles
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    PSW Staff 05/11/12 01:47 PM,
    The tide of digital consoles continues to rise. In general, they’re getting smaller and lighter, but overall capabilities are increasing at a steady pace. Already this year we’ve seen several companies introduce new models and series, and they all look to be smartly executed packages, providing users with more. More I/O. More networking. More recording capability. More effects. And, well, just more. This is an ideal scenario for the marketplace. If you’re more focused on the “look and feel,” there… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Poll • Product • Slideshow • Consoles • Sound Reinforcement

  • Wednesday, May 09, 2012
    What Benefits Do Digital Consoles Hold For Clubs?
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    Mark Frink 05/09/12 04:29 PM,
    It’s common for live music clubs to economize with second-hand sound equipment, and some value can be found in older loudspeakers and analog desks which are no longer rider-friendly enough for their original owners. Used analog consoles cost a fraction of their original price, so it’s not unusual to find club equipment older than the engineer running it. However, concert sound production is accustomed to the benefits that digital consoles provide. Let’s see what those benefits bring to live music… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Poll • Audio • Consoles • Digital • Installation • Mixer • Sound Reinforcement • System • Technician

  • TMP Pibrac Theatre Invests In New Soundcraft Vi1 Console
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    PSW Staff 05/09/12 07:38 AM,
    Built in 1989, the Théâtre Musical de Pibrac (TMP) is a popular concert and music-based theatre, situated 10 minutes from the centre of Toulouse. With an amphitheatre-style main auditorium, seating 448 (750 standing) it also has a separate lobby, exhibition area, café theatre, rehearsal and reception areas. The theatre receives incoming shows as well as producing its own, with resident company, Figaro & Co. TMP recently decided to overhaul its distribution network and at the same time upgrade its Soundcraft… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • News • Poll • Audio • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Sound Reinforcement

  • Tuesday, May 08, 2012
    Allan & Heath Flys The UK Flag At SXSW Festival
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    PSW Staff 05/08/12 01:49 PM,
    Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system was selected by promoters, Cato Music, to manage FOH and monitors on the British Music Embassy stage at this year’s iconic SXSW festival in Austin TX, USA. Showcasing the UK’s brightest new bands and artists, the British Music Embassy was exclusively based at downtown Austin’s Latitude 30 club, where an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface was installed at FOH, digitally split using a Dante networking card to a duplicateiDR-48/T112 for monitors. There… View this post
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