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Friday, May 04, 2012
NSCA Presenting Digital Marketing Boot Camp In Las Vegas
PSW Staff
05/04/12 02:02 PM,
The National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) is hosting a two-day boot camp featuring keynote speaker, Scott Klososky, from the 2012 NSCA Business & Leadership Conference (BLC). The boot camp will be held June 11-12 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Coming off of the most popular BLC, of which many topics centered around social media and marketing techniques, this boot camp will provide strategy-based curriculum on social and digital marketing strategies for marketing professionals and senior executives.…
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Low-Voltage Audio Products: Power & Noise
Dennis A. Bohn
05/03/12 06:24 PM,
This article is provided by Rane Corporation. This is an installment in a multi-part series. Additional segments are available here. Noise Low noise and low voltage don’t like each other. Low voltage usually means portable, and portable always means low current to prolong battery life. You can design low noise and low voltage if you can be a current pig, but if you must have low noise, low voltage and low current—well, that’s difficult. Everything works against you. The…
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Transcending Tech: A Conversation With Ethan Winer, Author Of “The Audio Expert”
Keith Clark
05/03/12 05:18 PM,
The Audio Expert, a new book by Ethan Winer, exhaustively covers a plethora of important technical aspects of audio. But it goes much further, discussing and explaining the relationship between audio and a wide range of closely related factors. In short, it challenges you to think, to seek a deeper understanding. Just released by Focal Press (and available here), I received an advance copy and have had a hard time putting it down. Winer, who has worked with audio for…
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Lectrosonics Introduces ASPEN Dante Network Processor
PSW Staff
05/03/12 08:36 AM,
Lectrosonics has expanded the ASPEN digital matrix processor family with the new SPNDNT network processor, a full-featured DSP that can address both the ASPEN and Dante matrices and add mixing, gain, and delay functions to the digital audio signals. Any of the 48 final mixes in the ASPEN matrix can be assigned to any one or more of the Dante channels for transport to other endpoints in the network. Dante signals can also be imported into the ASPEN matrix in…
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
New Mackie DL1608 Digital Live Mixer In The Field With Dierks Bentley
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05/01/12 06:00 PM,
The Mackie DL1608 digital live mixer with iPad control, introduced at Winter NAMM this past January, is being field tested in anticipation of its release this summer, including the launch of the Master Fader control app in June. Recently, the DL1608 got some face-time with mix engineers for Dierks Bentley and the band Brad (Stone Gossard, Shawn Smith, Regan Hagar, Jeremy Toback) at a live show at Seattle independent music store Easy Street Records. The live show was part of…
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Midas Consoles Resounding Success At Echo Awards
PSW Staff
05/01/12 02:53 PM,
A Midas PRO2 live audio system at FOH and PRO6 on monitors, provided by rental and production company SoundHead Company, commissioned by production companies EBS-Lights and Showplan and sourced from German MIDAS distributor Mega Audio, took centre stage at this year’s Echo Awards, Germany’s premier music awards show. The Berlin event’s star-studded line-up included performances by Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Sean Paul, Taio Cruz, Rammstein and Marilyn Manson. Soundhead Company MD and FOH engineer Tim Ehrenfried, who only recently…
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TC Furlong Inc. To Host Yamaha CL Chicagoland Launch Tour
PSW Staff
05/01/12 11:15 AM,
Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. and TC Furlong Inc. will host a mini-demo tour featuring the new Yamaha CL Digital Console Series, May 1-2, at three separate Chicago-area sites. Yamaha Systems Application Engineer, Kevin Kimmel, Regional District Manager, Mike Eiseman, and TC Furlong staff will be on hand to demonstrate the new console. All events are free of charge and open to audio professionals are welcome. Dates and location of events are: Tuesday, May 1—2:00 PM-8:00 PM, TC Furlong Inc.,…
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The Black Keys Maneuver First Headlining Arena Tour With DiGiCo
PSW Staff
05/01/12 10:47 AM,
The Black Keys, aka Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, have had a big underground following for over a decade but with the success of 2010’s Grammy awarded Brothers and last year’s wildly successful El Camino, they’re in the midst of their first headlining arena tour across the globe. The tour is also the first time the Black Keys have had the luxury of carrying their own production gear, which includes a DiGiCo SD10 for FOH and an SD8 at monitors,…
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Production Company MARIUS Produções Chooses Soundcraft Vi6 Digital Consoles
PSW Staff
04/30/12 04:14 PM,
The municipality of Praia, located on the Cape Verde Island of Santiago, isn’t the most obvious place to find a pair of Soundcraft Vi6 digital desks. But it is here in the archipelago where Mario Bettencourt has been operating his rental company, MARIUS Produções—the largest pro audio and lighting company on the islands—for the last 13 years, and Soundcraft desks have been a central feature. The island hosts a population of around 500,000, and although 20 percent live in the…
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In The Studio: Laying Down Quality Drum Tracks Without A Drummer
Jackson B. Jackson
04/30/12 04:03 PM,
OK, you all know the drill. It’s time to lay down the drum track for your future Grammy Award-winning song, but there’s just one tiny little problem; no live drummer within a 50-mile radius of your studio. Or how about this one? You’ve managed to post bail (again) for your drummer, only to find out that he had to sell his acoustic kit to pay this month’s rent. No problem, you think to yourself, I’ll just plug in my Drum-O-Matic…
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