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  • Tuesday, September 07, 2010
    Tech Tip Of The Day: Memory Card Safety
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    PSW Staff 09/07/10 09:45 AM, 0 Comments
    Provided by Sweetwater.   Q: I’ve been recording for a long time, but I just recently purchased an SD-based recorder for some field work. Back in the dark ages, everyone made a big fuss about being extra cautious with new equipment when we all went first from analog tape to digital decks, and then to hard disk based machines and computers. While I’ve always been overly cautious with my equipment, one attractive feature of the SD-based machines is that they… View this post
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Digital • Signal • Studio • System • Audio

  • Renkus-Heinz The Choice Of Mickey Gilley’s New Las Vegas Establishment
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    PSW Staff 09/07/10 08:12 AM, 1 Comment
    Mickey Gilley’s legacy as an icon of country music was already secure when he opened his original namesake bar and honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas in 1971. With its mechanical broncos and classy roadhouse vibe, the club was further immortalized as the centerpiece of the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, setting the benchmark for hip country music bars from coast to coast. In the 1990s the Gilley’s phenomenon branched out to Las Vegas, where the club’s line dancing “Dirty Girls”… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • News • Poll • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • System • Audio

  • Aphex Appoints Frequency Sales As Representative
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    PSW Staff 09/07/10 07:30 AM, 0 Comments
    Aphex has announced the appointment of Frequency Sales, LLC. as the company’s new sales representatives for the territories of Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Based in Des Plaines, IL, Frequency Sales represents a number of high-profile hardware and software manufacturers in the professional audio industry, boasting a long history and deep ties to the Chicagoland and surrounding areas. “We’re pleased to welcome Frequency Sales as our newest representatives,” said Rick McClendon, Aphex General Manager. “The company… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • Recording • News • Poll • Analog • Business • Processor • Sound Reinforcement • System • Audio

  • Friday, September 03, 2010
    Signature Theatre Chooses Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless To Overcome Tough RF Environment
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    PSW Staff 09/03/10 04:09 PM, 0 Comments
    Being located directly across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, the production crew at the Signature Theatre knew very well what it meant to operate in a crowded RF environment, and turned to wireless system solutions from Lectrosonics. With airports, radio and TV stations, the Pentagon, and countless other users of wireless frequencies all around, selecting a wireless microphone system that could readily adapt to the ever-changing frequency characteristics of the area was no small concern. Matt Rowe, Signature Theatre’s… View this post
    Filed in: Live Sound • Church Sound • News • Poll • Installation • Microphone • Sound Reinforcement • Wireless

  • Video: An Introduction To The Proper Use Of De-Essers
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    Joe Gilder 09/03/10 03:32 PM, 2 Comments
    This article is provided by Home Studio Corner.   Whenever you’re recording, especially when dealing with vocals, there often comes a time when the mix sounds pretty good, and then things take a turn for the worse. All you did was perform a little processing and suddenly transients that once were soft are suddenly piercing and have ruined the mix. What to do? While you can try to simply EQ the track, that can easily ruin what was previously a… View this post
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Video • Digital • Digital Audio Workstations • Mixer • Processor • Software • Studio • Audio

  • Telefuken Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of The ELA M 251 ||
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    PSW Staff 09/03/10 01:41 PM, 0 Comments
    Telefunken Elektroakustik is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the ELA M 250/251, 250E/251E, and 270 microphones with exclusive commemorative system packages.  The packages ship in leather-bound flightcases with an embroidered 50th Anniversary logo, and the cable stand-mount feature the same gold diamond badge as found on the originals. The ELA M 250/251 models include the extremely rare AC701 vacuum tube, while the E series and stereo model feature the 6072a tube. “We are including extra NOS tubes for the 250E/251E… View this post
    Filed in: Recording • News • Poll • Product • Analog • Business • Microphone • Studio • Audio

  • Sonivox Unveils The Vocalizer Production Synthesizer
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    PSW Staff 09/03/10 10:42 AM, 0 Comments
    Sonivox has anounced that it is now oofering a pre-release preview complete with MP3 and Video examples of the first instrument from their new Nemesynth Audio Research Group, The Vocalizer Production Synthesizer. Vocalizer is a new concept in music production that couples a new technology synthesis engine with an open input based architecture. Vocalizer is one part effect plugin and one part virtual instrument. Vocalists, non-vocalists, & producers feed Vocalizer any audio source, and it re-pitches, effects, and re-synthesizes the… View this post
    Filed in: Recording • News • Poll • Product • Digital Audio Workstations • Software • Studio • Audio

  • Tech Tip Of The Day: The Center (Surround) Channel
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    PSW Staff 09/03/10 09:59 AM, 1 Comment
    Provided by Sweetwater.   Q: I just started mixing is surround. Well, I guess technically it’s 5.1, but anyways… It’s really a fun process, at least I find it to be much more creative than stereo mixing. However, I find myself with an issue. While It’s quite common sense what to do with the surround speaker (that is, depending on your mixing philosophy of using them strictly for effects or creating a completely enveloping mix), it’s rather confusing what to… View this post
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Digital • Digital Audio Workstations • Education • Monitoring • Studio • System • Audio

  • Electro-Voice Remains Choice Of Jonesboro First United Methodist
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    PSW Staff 09/03/10 09:10 AM, 0 Comments
    Elite Multimedia of Memphis’ first project for First United Methodist in Jonesboro, Arkansas was to design and install an Electro-Voice sound system in a gym that was being converted into a dual-purpose Fellowship Hall to accommodate rapidly growing attendance at contemporary services. According to Elite’s BJ Shaver, when the church decided to upgrade the sound in its main sanctuary, “they already had a positive impression of Electro-Voice from the system we had installed in the Fellowship Hall.” Elite proposed an… View this post
    Filed in: Church Sound • News • Poll • Installation • Interconnect • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • System • Audio

  • Linear Acoustic Introduces Two New Upmixers At IBC2010
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    PSW Staff 09/03/10 08:42 AM, 0 Comments
    Linear Acoustic has announced two new upmixing products: the UPMAX II Reference Upmixer and UPMAX 5.1 Channel Upmixer. UPMAX II is a reference-quality, fully-featured 2RU upmixer with extensive user control over the sound field, and the 1RU UPMAX provides simple, cost-effective, space-efficient upmixing. Both produce fully downmix-compatible left, right, center, stereo surround, and LFE channels from the two-channel main input. The new UPMAX II algorithm produces a very stable 5.1-channel version of two-channel inputs. Active steering is not employed in… View this post
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