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Wednesday, May 26, 2010SSL Duality Installed By Chinese National Radio
PSW Staff 05/26/10 11:10 AM, 0 CommentsSolid State Logic has announced that Chinese National Radio (CNR) has installed a 24-fader Duality console. The SSL Duality recently found a home in the CNR main production facility that features advanced digital multimedia studios, recording studios and a world-class concert hall. CNR operates nine different channels covering national news broadcast in Mandarin and Nationality Radio broadcast to minority and ethnic groups, to the Story Channel and a popular music channel that includes concert performances. The Duality covers live to… View this post
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Tech Tip Of The Day: Cut Rather Than Boost?
PSW Staff 05/26/10 10:17 AM, 2 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: I’ve seen a lot of interviews where engineers say that you should cut frequencies with EQ rather than boost them. Why is this? A: Some engineers feel that equalizers sound different when you cut with them, versus boosting with them. And, in some cases, there may be technical reasons why this is true. But, for many engineers, another big reason is to preserve headroom. Adding a boost to a set of frequencies can take a… View this post
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Delec Commentary Systems Chosen For Swiss OB Trucks
PSW Staff 05/26/10 08:37 AM, 0 CommentsAt the 128th AES Convention London, German intercom and communication system provider Delec announced the installation of multiple Oratis commentary systems by TV Productioncenter Zürich AG (TPC) of Switzerland. To meet the needs of multi-language sports productions, TV Productioncenter Zürich, have installed the Oratis commentary system on several of their outside broadcast (OB) trucks. The Oratis commentary system is based on a matrix frame installed in the OB vehicle which acts as a central audio router. The commentators use an… View this post
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Altinex Introduces CP481-008 & CP482-008 MultiTouch Panels
PSW Staff 05/26/10 07:40 AM, 0 CommentsAltinex has announced the new CP481-008 and CP482-008 MultiTouch Panels as the latest additions to the company’s expanding line of touch screen controllers. The CP481-008 and CP482-008 both feature 8.4-inch LCD displays with an LCD resolution of 800 x 600 and a scaled resolution of 1024 x 768. Pre-programmed for use with Polycom (CP481-008) and Tandberg (CP482-008) video conference systems, these new MultiTouch panels feature an attractive, contemporary design at home in the most sophisticated boardroom and presentation space. The… View this post
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010Tech Tip Of The Day: Studio Subwoofer PlacementPSW 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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Monday, May 24, 2010Ballpark 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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Earthworks Chosen For Crowded House Tour
PSW Staff 05/24/10 11:05 AM, 0 CommentsKnown by their fans as The Crowdies, the rock band Crowded House is ramping up for a new tour whose European leg kicks off in Newcastle, England on May 18th before coming Stateside on July 12th. From test and measurement to miking the guitars, Crowded House’s FOH Engineer Angus Davidson relies heavily his arsenal of Earthworks microphones. With a background that spans thirty years of live and studio work, Davidson’s resume also includes several world tours and he also heads… View this post
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Tech Tip Of The Day: Miking A Rotary SpeakerPSW Staff 05/24/10 10:06 AM, 2 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: My band just picked up a vintage Hammond B-3, complete with the matching Leslie speaker from a church. It works perfectly, however, a guy at the church was telling that miking that Leslie isn’t like miking a guitar cabinet. He described what we needed to do, but I’m kinda lost. Is this true? What should we do? A: First of all, nice find! The gentleman you met at the church is correct, in that… View this post
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Skid Row Relies On Metric Halo’s SpectraFoo
PSW Staff 05/24/10 08:39 AM, 0 CommentsSkid Row, who produced a string of iconic hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, currently maintains a busy schedule of fly-in dates throughout the country and around the world, performing both their classics and new songs from Revolutions Per Minute (2006). They use house or rental equipment so that they can travel light, and veteran FOH and monitor engineer Mike Thompson relies on Metric Halo’s SpectraFoo sound analysis software to deliver consistent sound night after night across disparate… View this post
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Sunday, May 23, 2010RTW Touchmonitor Series Of Signal Metering Makes European Debut At AES London
PSW Staff 05/23/10 12:16 PM, 0 CommentsRTW has announced the European debut of its TouchMonitor series, an range of products that marks a new generation in professional audio-signal metering, at AES London 2010. The TouchMonitor TM7 has a 7-inch touchscreen and the TouchMonitor TM9 has a 9-inch touchscreen, both with a redesigned GUI (graphical user interface) that is equipped with a touch-sensitive 16:9 high-resolution screen. New instruments and functions can be added as software modules to the device at any time. Many display functions known from… View this post
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