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Monday, May 31, 2010SIA Acoustics Selects Outline Butterfly Arrays For Healing Place Church In Baton Rouge
PSW Staff 05/31/10 11:32 AM, 0 CommentsThe new 3,000-seat worship sanctuary of Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offers a sound reinforcement system headed by Outline Butterfly loudspeakers as well as other Outline components. Both the sound and acoustical design on the project were provided by SIA Acoustics, which has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and most recently, India. The main sound system is comprised of 42 C.D.H. 483 “Butterfly” loudspeakers, divided into three arrays (two of 13 elements and one of 16)… View this post
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Friday, May 28, 2010Nady Systems Introduces New 100-Channel UHF Wireless System
PSW Staff 05/28/10 05:22 PM, 0 CommentsNady Systems has debuted the UWS-100, a new 100-channel select UHF wireless system with 100 frequencies per 24 MHz wide band, manually selectable or by autoscan feature. The UWS-100 offers state-of-the-art PLL UHF performance with 120 dB dynamic range and operation up to 500 feet, line-of-sight. Other features include: —ASC (Auto-Sync Channels) download, which sends selected GROUP/CHANNEL information to transmitter via IR sender for easy frequency synchronization—Tone Squelch circuitry for protection from RF interference—Front Panel Touch control buttons for ease… View this post
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Ken Blecher Named VP & Director Of Business Development For Powersoft U.S.
PSW Staff 05/28/10 05:07 PM, 0 CommentsKen Blecher has been named Vice President and Director of Business Development for the U.S. operation of Powersoft Advanced Technologies. The announcement was made by Powersoft Managing Director Claudio Lastrucci. With more than 25 years of experience in the manufacturing, contracting and consulting segments of pro AV integration and tour sound, Blecher will be teaming up with Tom Bensen, U.S. Vice President and Director of Operations, at Powersoft’s U.S. facilities in Farmingdale, NY. Blecher will be at InfoComm 2010 (Booth… View this post
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Meyer Sound Appoints Philippos Nakas As New Distributor For Greece
PSW Staff 05/28/10 04:02 PM, 2 CommentsMeyer Sound has announced Philippos Nakas as the company’s new distributor, providing technical support, product servicing, and coordination of educational programs for the Greek professional audio market. The publicly listed Philippos Nakas (ATH:NAKAS) has been supplying musical instruments and professional audio equipment in Greece since 1937. Today, the Athens company distributes for manufacturers including ROBE lighting, Sennheiser, KLOTZ, and Neumann, in addition to Meyer Sound. “We have been looking for a big name in loudspeakers for a long time now,… View this post
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d&b audiotechnik Releases New Version 6 of ArrayCalc Simulation Software
PSW Staff 05/28/10 03:24 PM, 0 Commentsd&b audiotechnik now updated its ArrayCalc simulation software for its line arrays and subwoofer arrays, which includes expansion of the sophisticated SubArray calculations time alignment feature that was first introduced in 2009 in ArrayCalc Version 5. ArrayCalc v6 provides many other new features, such as increased number of listening planes, arrays and subwoofers. Included in these is a selection of different excitation signals, sine, 1/3-octave filtered noise or pink noise, for the simulation of the sound level distribution and absolute… View this post
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Profile: Meeting Unusual System Coverage Challenges At Covenant Family Church
PSW Staff 05/28/10 01:09 PM, 0 CommentsIn evaluating the success or failure of every house of worship sound reinforcement system, two requirements stand out: coverage and intelligibility. Does the system provide completely smooth and consistent coverage throughout the entire space? And, can every syllable of every word (and every note of every song) be heard and understood - and even further - within their intended context? This is the heart of the matter. If a system can’t be heard due to substandard coverage to certain areas,… View this post
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Lectrosonics Chosen For The Dayton Kroc Center
PSW Staff 05/28/10 10:37 AM, 0 CommentsThe newly opened Kroc Center (also known as the Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center) is one of thirty-one planned community centers now built or proposed for construction across the United States. Operated by The Salvation Army and funded by a $1.5 billion donation from the estate of the late Joan Kroc (widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc), the Kroc Center is a community center where children and families are to be exposed to different people, activities, and arts that… View this post
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Tech Tip Of The Day: The Purpose Of Sidefills
PSW Staff 05/28/10 10:21 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. Q: I’ve been working with a band for a few years and I think I’m starting to get the hang of live sound. However, we’re starting to play some larger venues and I keep hearing people talk about sidefill monitors. I don’t mean to sound silly, but what exactly are sidefill monitors? Aren’t they just mains pointed at the band or something? A: This is an area that’s still widely debated by live sound engineers, but… View this post
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Sennheiser UK Appoints Dave Wooster As Live Sound Specialist
PSW Staff 05/28/10 10:01 AM, 0 CommentsSennheiser UK has appointed veteran Front of House Engineer Dave Wooster to the role of live sound specialist, a newly formed position that will bring up-to-date field experience to the company’s customers. “My aim is to demonstrate Sennheiser UK’s live sound solutions, provide ongoing support and backup and further develop how this range of products’ fit in the current marketplace,” says Wooster, whose live sound engineering credits include Van Morrison, Gary Moore and, most recently, Leona Lewis. “Sennheiser’s own products… View this post
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Thursday, May 27, 2010Autograph Sound Supplies Meyer Sound For “Carmen” At London’s O2 Arena
PSW Staff 05/27/10 02:56 PM, 0 CommentsThe 18,000-capacity O2 Arena in London recently hosted its first fully staged opera, a larger-than-life rendition of Bizet’s vibrant and passionate Carmen, with Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. providing a sound reinforcement system featuring Meyer Sound line arrays and loudspeakers. To cover the O2’s main seating bowl, the production relied on left-right arrays of 16 MILO and two MILO 120 line array loudspeakers each for the orchestral system, with 90 MICA line array loudspeakers dedicated to performers’ voices. A total of… View this post
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