Audix Microphones has updated the MicroBoom Series to include two models: MicroBoom 50, with a 50-inch boom arm, and the MicroBoom 84, with an 84-inch boom arm, helpful for reaching the back row of a choir.
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 Heil Sound’s PR 48 large diaphragm dynamic microphone designed for kick drum use has a 1.5-inch diameter element and is mounted in a vulcanized double shock mount, which offers complete isolation within a rugged cast metal housing.
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 Mackie’s TH-15A 2-Way Powered Loudspeaker delivers 400 Watts of system power in a design weighing in at 36lbs (16.3kg). Designed by the same team that created the Mackie SRMv2 Series, the TH-15A is touted for its power, portability and performance in a compact PA solution.
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 Bosch’s Communications Systems Division announced the release of IRIS-Net V2.1.1 software. IRIS-Net V2.1.1, with new features developed for both live audio and installation markets.
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For the past couple of weeks I have been working with a couple of “veteran” sound guys trying to put together a tribute to one of the giants of live event audio industry. I have always thought that we tend to wait too long to pay tribute to people who deserve it and that we should do it while they can still see and appreciate it. It has been a moving and humbling experience.
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 In 1978, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds made its debut. This year, The War of the Worlds — Alive On Stage paid homage to Wayne’s Worlds in arenas around the UK and Europe. RG Jones, meanwhile, supplied a Synco by Martin Audio-based sound system for the touring spectacle
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Blake Suib |
FOH engineer Blake Suib has a resume that includes artists from Prince to Annie Lennox and was presented on this tour with a huge challenge—covering 360 degrees without blocking very large video screens that play a big part in the show.
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Jon Bullock, right, with Frank Urtado, seated, in Fallujah, Iraq |
I am one of the fortunate few sound guys that is also a musician and earns a living doing both. I am also one of even fewer who get the honor to travel overseas entertaining our troops, which I have been doing since 2001. These tours have taken me, multiple times, to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Italy, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and a few of the other “-stan” countries.
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University Heights Baptist Church |
When Bret Lambert, owner of Procure Distributing in Owasso, Okla., walked into the University Heights Baptist Church earlier this year, he was a bit surprised. It wasn’t the complete gutting and rebuilding of the church’s sanctuary, not the expanse of musical styling that the members perform or the fact that so much happens in this Stillwater church that they had to update their PA. No, what surprised him was what was already installed.
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X2 XDR 955 Digital Wireless Handheld Vocal Mic |
I have been a fan of the X2 stuff ever since they were known as X Wire back in the 1990s. The digital transmission — which meant no companding — offered a sound at least as good as a premium cable.
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 Being in the live sound business, and especially towards the ankle-biting side, I get a lot questions of how much audio power or amperes of loading a typical circuit can handle before tripping the circuit breaker.
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Many of you walk into your church just before the service begins; you turn on the system and wait for the congregation to show up. You do your mixing job, turn off the system and go home. This approach to mixing is not a problem unless some piece of gear or cable fails, then you’re stuck, and so is the congregation.
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 As you all know by now, Bernie Madoff is in jail and serving a sentence of 150 years. It’s an absurd number of years for anyone to be sentenced, and considering that Madoff is now in his 70s, barring some sort of divine intervention, he will in reality probably only serve 15 or 20 years of said sentence before he dies in prison.
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Bartlett TM-125C |
ELKHART, IN — In response to requests by sound contractors and sound designers, Bartlett Microphones has updated their recently-introduced model TM-125C stage-floor microphone for area pickup of actors and dancers in drama or musicals with a 6-foot permanently attached cable, to prevent connector damage if an actor steps on the cable.
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Hosa Technology SKO-200 speaker cables |
Hosa Technology’s SKO-200 Series speaker cables, designed for bi-amping and high-current applications, consist of four 12 AWG oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors. They are cut to 3-, 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 50, 75-, and 100-foot lengths and are available in all standard terminations, including 4-pole Neutrik Speakon, dual quarter-inch TS (mono phone plugs), and quad banana.
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 Meyer Sound’s JM-1P arrayable loudspeaker, a self-powered high-Q system, is designed to be used in tight-packed clusters where horizontal coverage must be predictably scaled to exacting requirements. With a 20-degree horizontal by 60-degree vertical pattern, the JM-1P promises controlled coverage with minimal reverberation in large or reflective acoustical environments.
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 QSC Q-Sys targets large and small applications and budgets with digital audio signal routing and processing combined with system monitoring and control. Using new converters and Gigabit Ethernet, Q-Sys produces a total system latency of less than 2.5 milliseconds between any input and output, with up to 10 network switch hops and high quality processing throughout.
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 Proel said that its new Edge series models, including two medium-sized speaker systems (C12A and C15A) and two stage monitors (12CXA and 15CXA), feature a PWM switching amplifier (Class D) which can supply over 2000W of continuous power. All are equipped with built-in amplification, processing circuitry and excursion control, implemented through analog technology.
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 Following the launch of the T-Series loudspeaker range earlier this year, d&b audiotechnik now offers the new Ti-Series — loudspeaker systems and hardware fittings for fixed installation use.
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 EAW is now shipping the DX1208 DSP Matrix Mixer. Introduced at InfoComm 09, the DX1208 is a 12-input, 8-output 1U-rackspace DSP matrix mixer.
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 The evolution e 965, Sennheiser’s large-diaphragm condenser microphone, is now available as a wireless version. The MMK 965-1 microphone capsule attaches to both Sennheiser’s 2000 Series and evolution wireless G3 wireless series SKM handheld transmitters, letting users of both series benefit from the dual-diaphragm of Sennheiser’s e 965 microphone. Sennheiser’s ew 500-965 G3 system, which is part of the evolution wireless G3 series, is based around the MMK 965-1 and ships with the EM 500 G3 receiver, a GA 3 rack-mount kit and the SKM 500 G3 transmitter with the MMK 965-1 capsule.
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 VMB Rainbow electro-acoustical prediction software for the company’s speaker systems features horizontal as well as vertical modeling. The Windows-based software allows simulation of complete systems, such as a main large format array complemented by a smaller delayed array and front-fills.
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