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Thursday, October 28, 2010Tech Tip Of The Day: Live Sound Systems And The Noise Floor
PSW Staff 10/28/10 09:01 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: I want to put together the best live sound system possible for my band, choosing mics, a mixer and amps with the widest possible dynamic range, highest signal-to-noise ratio, etc. But how do these specs apply in a real live club setting? How do they affect overall volume? A: While component specs such as self-noise, dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio are useful in selecting gear, in a live sound environment they are usually outweighed by… View this post
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010Crown Audio Calculators: Inverse Square Law
PSW Staff 10/27/10 12:43 PM, 0 CommentsThis calculation will give you the amount of attenuation, in decibels, you can expect with a change in receiver distance, in a free field (outdoors). For example if you were standing 20 feet from a loudspeaker, and were to move to 40 feet away from that loudspeaker, you would expect to see a drop in level of 6 dB. Sound that is radiated from a point source drops in level at 6 dB per doubling of distance. Equation used to… View this post
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Tannoy Installed For Newly Constructed Opera House In Dallas
PSW Staff 10/27/10 12:21 PM, 0 CommentsThe newly constructed Winspear Opera House, located in downtown Dallas, Texas, is a reinterpretation of the traditional opera house. The main performance space seats 2,200 and was engineered specifically for performances of opera and musical theater, with stages equipped for ballet performances as well as other forms of dance. Jeffrey White of Clair Brothers Audio Systems (Dallas) along with Dan Heins of the Nashville Office of Clair Brothers, provided the engineering, shop drawings and installation of the audio systems for… View this post
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Electro-Voice Chosen By Pyxis For North Coast Church Installs
PSW Staff 10/27/10 11:00 AM, 0 CommentsSix weeks isn’t much time to go from an initial customer inquiry to having PA systems on-site and ready to rig. However, when Pyxis Industries in Riverside, California was asked by North Coast Church to bid on the design and installation of sound systems at two different locations, owner Chad Costanzo didn’t hesitate. “These installations had to come together extremely quickly,” Costanzo says. “But our past experience with Electro-Voice gave us total confidence that everything would work out fine. And… View this post
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010ENTASYS Selected For Elementary School Multi-Purpose Room
PSW Staff 10/26/10 03:50 PM, 0 CommentsOne of the busiest places in Ocean Road Elementary School is the multi-purpose room. Hosting everything from lunch periods to presentations and performances, the “cafetorium” is a non-stop hub of activity from before classes begin until late into the evening. It’s an open, acoustically live space that’s designed more for versatility and utility than for sonic performance. Crowds of kids and a loud HVAC system contribute to the room’s typically high ambient noise levels. School officials were unhappy with the… View this post
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Tech Talk: Our Tech Guru Answers The Difficult Questions
John Murray 10/26/10 01:20 PM, 1 CommentQuestion: A while ago, I wondered what caused a Constant Directivity (CD) horn to exhibit a roll-off different from any other. I made the assumption the phenomenon existed after seeing numerous processing products that include “CD horn compensation.” I was told that no such thing existed, and that the roll-off exhibited was due to the break point associated with the diaphragm mass of the driver. Could you please elaborate on what the truth is here? And what is this break… View this post
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Hartselle Church Congregants Rely On Iconyx
PSW Staff 10/26/10 12:28 PM, 0 CommentsHartselle Church of Christ which boasts beautiful, inspirational architecture featuring high ceilings and ornate brickwork, i’s an impressive looking sanctuary.. However, that same architecture created some unforeseen challenges. As Christopher Bragg, Senior Systems Engineer at Covington, GA-based Messenger Media Systems Inc., explains, the room’s acoustic signature did not lend itself to getting the message across to the congregation. “It’s a very wide room, and very reflective,” says Bragg. “As a traditional Church of Christ, their service is very much centered… View this post
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Yamaha Systems Selected By Taylors First Baptist Church
PSW Staff 10/26/10 08:52 AM, 0 CommentsTaylors First Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina was chartered and established in 1864. The ‘u-shaped’ sanctuary seats approximately 2,100, and with two services on Sunday mornings, the church serves a congregation of 3,000. Recently, Palmetto Sound Works of Spartanburg, S.C. was contracted to perform an upgrade to their existing audio system originally installed in 1995. About four years ago, the audio contractor performed a partial upgrade that included a Yamaha M7CL-48 digital audio console. This year, the complete upgrade… View this post
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Guitar Center Professional Appoints Brad Lyons GC Pro Account Manager
PSW Staff 10/26/10 07:35 AM, 0 CommentsGuitar Center Professional (GC Pro) has appointed industry veteran Brad Lyons as GC Pro Account Manager, based in the company’s Atlanta location. In his new position, Lyons will draw on his extensive experience in pro audio sales and worship sound to help GC Pro expand its presence in the studio, live, post production and house-of-worship market sectors. The announcement was made by Rick Plushner, GC Pro Director, and further underscores GC Pro’s ongoing commitment to the continuing growth of GC… View this post
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Monday, October 25, 2010Adamson Expands United States Represenative Network
PSW Staff 10/25/10 12:07 PM, 0 CommentsAdamson Systems Engineering has announced the addition of several new companies as US representatives. The first two are Meyer Marketing which covers all of Florida from two separate offices, one for Southern and one for Central/Northern Florida. The second, is Marketing Concepts with headquarters in Dallas TX, serving TX excluding El Paso, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas from five strategically located field offices. Meyer Marketing represents other high end sound products, among them Lab.gruppen, Middle Atlantic Products, RDL and Blue Microphones,… View this post
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