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Tuesday, May 25, 2010Custom EAW Loudspeakers Selected For Yoshi’s Jazz Club In San Francisco
PSW Staff 05/25/10 04:53 PM, 0 CommentsFamed jazz venue Yoshi’s most recent venture in San Francisco’s Fillmore Heritage Center, carries on the tradition begun by Founder Yoshi Akiba and her partners Kaz Kajimura and Hiroyuki Hori in 1973, when they opened a tiny sushi restaurant and jazz club in Berkeley. The new location is a 28,000-square-foot, two-story, state-of-the-art venue that features the best of local, national and international jazz artists, with seating for 417 in the jazz club and nearly 371 in the restaurant and lounge.… View this post
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FaitalPRO Launches New 15XL1400 15-Inch Loudspeaker Woofer
PSW Staff 05/25/10 04:05 PM, 0 CommentsFaitalPRO has introduced the new 15XL1400, a 15-inch loudspeaker woofer with high power and long excursion. The new woofer utilizes the same magnet assembly and suspensions – double spider and cone surround – of the company’s 18XL1500 woofer. “With the new 15XL1400, we were able to reach 1,400 watts of nominal power,” notes Flavio Naggi, FaitalPRO overseas sales manager. “It is a real subwoofer to use on the same level as the 18XL1500 but in an enclosure of smaller volume,… View this post
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Tech Tip Of The Day: Studio Subwoofer Placement
PSW Staff 05/25/10 10:09 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: I recently setup a home studio with a 2.1 monitoring system, and the bass sounds kind of, well, just bad. I setup the monitors the way the diagram showed, but I just placed my sub on the floor next to my desk. Is there anything I should keep in mind when positioning my subwoofer? A: Positioning your subwoofer(s) can often be a difficult task and the relative locations are not the same for all rooms.… View this post
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Meyer Sound Constellation Chosen For Laguna Presbyterian Church
PSW Staff 05/25/10 08:55 AM, 0 CommentsAn 82-year-old Spanish mission style building stands proud In the heart of Laguna Beach in Southern California, as the home of Laguna Presbyterian Church. After a two-year renovation that included the installation of a Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system, the sanctuary now provides an acoustic environment that fully supports its diverse worship program. “We were very unhappy with the sound,” says worship elder Lorna Cohen. “It was fine for spoken word but we had all sorts of music that… View this post
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Shure Helps Band Play Gig On Mount Kilimanjaro
PSW Staff 05/25/10 07:52 AM, 0 CommentsIndie-Rock band Sound Driver is currently midway through a very unusual world tour. The musicians are visiting some of the world’s most iconic venues as a way of raising awareness for children’s charity The Smile Train. To date they’ve played at the Sydney Harbour Bridge and even broke a World Record on Mount Kilimanjaro. Upcoming stops on the “Chasing Rainbows” tour include The Great Wall Of China, Niagara Falls, and Dubai’s Burj al Arab hotel. Successfully negotiating such a schedule… View this post
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Monday, May 24, 2010L-Acoustics Consen For Andrea Bocelli Asian Tour
PSW Staff 05/24/10 02:36 PM, 1 CommentItalian tenor Andrea Bocelli has embarked on dates throughout Asia, drawing on L-Acoustics’ strong Rental Network in the region to provide a system in every location. Appearances in Tokyo, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore saw local agents Kyoritz, Seoul Sound, MSI Hong Kong and CSP Productions respectively supplying V-DOSC/dV-DOSC systems. However, when the tour arrived in Taiwan, local rental company Winly provided Bocelli’s sound designer Andrea Taglia with an extensive KUDO large format line source system for the Taipei Arena.… View this post
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Ballpark Audio: A Look At Several Recent Sound Design Approaches
Live Sound Staff 05/24/10 12:30 PM, 0 CommentsThe recent kickoff of the 2010 baseball season sees most Major League Baseball teams playing in purpose-built stadiums commissioned in the past 15 or so years, all offering top-end production systems, sound reinforcement among them. Even venerable ballparks like Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston sport venue-wide audio systems implemented within the past few years. Stadiums present two primary sound design choices. One is the classic “main cluster” approach, where coverage to most/all seating is supplied by… View this post
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JBL Launches PRX600 Series Portable Powered Loudspeakers
PSW Staff 05/24/10 10:24 AM, 0 CommentsJBL Professional today introduced the PRX600 Series active portable loudspeakers. The new PRX600 Series offers unparalleled power, rugged durability and versatility for any small to mid-sized live sound environment. The new PRX600 Series includes four full-range cabinets (PRX612M, PRX615M, PRX625, PRX635) and two subwoofers (PRX618S and PRX618S-XLF). Utilizing tour-tested JBL Differential Drive speaker technology, dbx Type IV limiting circuitry and Crown class-D amplifiers, the PRX600 Series delivers performance in a light, small and professional package. At the core of the… View this post
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Martin Audio Launches MLA Touring System
PSW Staff 05/24/10 08:50 AM, 1 CommentMartin Audio will debut its MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array at InfoComm 2010. The MLA delivers coverage and consistency previously not possible with traditional touring line arrays thanks to a breakthrough cellular array design. Martin Audio R&D Director Jason Baird explains: “Our primary aim with MLA was to take the guesswork out of daily system design and enable the engineer’s mix to be delivered throughout an audience with a degree of precision, consistency and repeatability not possible with traditional line arrays.”… View this post
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Sunday, May 23, 2010Sound Image Joins K1/KUDO Pilot Program, Prepares for Tom Petty’s MOJO Tour
PSW Staff 05/23/10 11:06 AM, 0 CommentsSouthern California-based Sound Image has now joined the list of North American L-Acoustics K1/KUDO Pilot Program companies. At the request of Robert Scovill, Tom Petty’s longtime front of house engineer, Sound Image took delivery of L-Acoustics’ K Standard package comprised of 48 K1 and 36 KUDO enclosures, 24 K1-SB and 24 SB28 subs, plus accompanying LA-RAK amplified controller racks. The system is currently in pre-production rehearsals for Petty’s upcoming MOJO Tour, which kicks off on June 1 at Red Rocks… View this post
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