"When we first met, Bayside Chapel was renting a local high school auditorium, but were in the initial planning stages for their own church," said Young, a well-known figure in electroacoustic design for churches. "Around the time, I had listened to several new loudspeakers designed by Tom Danley and was impressed with the pattern control, the phase response and their very natural sound quality. I've kept tabs on his designs
DJs, retailers, press, and select Xone and Traktor users, were given a step-by-step explanation of how to construct a DJ set with the 3D, introducing clips and samples from the software - mapped to any of the 3D's 86 MIDI controls, which are in the form of faders, knobs and jog wheels - and syncing other music sources via the 3D's USB soundcard.
Guests were also treated to two two-hour live sets from the demo DJ's and a warm up set by London-based Alt*Ctrl, where the full potential of t
Because of the punishing live schedule, a key requirement for the band's audio equipment is reliability, as well as needing the guarantee of excellent sound, and XTA equipment is at the heart of the band's live rig.
"I've been all round the world with XTA gear," says the band's front of house engineer Richard McMenamin. "Countless times I have prayed before checking my rack in with the 'gentle' airline baggage handlers, but XTA processors have never let me dow
FX leisure - which owns five clubs in the region - approached SLR with a dilemma. How to allow customers freedom to choose their own music, while ensuring that the music was suitable for the time of day, or type of activities going on? SLR suggested installing the Versatile Video system into the manager's office and fully profiling the music for every session of the day. A networked, separate remote selector unit was then fitted into the public area of the gym, where customers can choose from the selection of profile tracks available.
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Incorporating ten 5000 capacity green-field sites, the 21 concerts over 10 weekends feature four different formats of entertainment - a Queen / Abba tribute night, the Blues Brothers party, a Rat Pack tribute and a Glenn Miller Band. The shows are tailored to attract families and holiday-makers across the region.
Tour production manager John Radford is working with a team of up to 28 people and three 45 trailers of equipment plus a selection of site vehicles, landrovers, people carriers and cars. Other key personnel include Jono Rose (technical project manager/lighting designer) Jon Rimmer (site manager), Chris Vass (sound design), Brian Clear
The Aero 48 large-format line array was used at the 'Samsung Tour' which took place in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. More than 25,000 people showed up to see the Moscow band Korni (Roots) with band leader Sergey Dubov. Six Aero 48 systems were flown from each wing of the stage.
The same system was used for the Europe Days event, staged in the famous Europe Square in Dnepropetrovsk. The event, held on 3 June, had as guests singers the Iryna Bilyck and Disco Avaria.
The equipment was provided by the Ukrainian rental company "StormLine", a partner company of "Indigo Music Company", D.A.S. distributor for the Ukraine. The Aero 48 provided excellent coverag
Optimized for speech and with 193 selectable UHF channels, the new wireless microphone products are suited to a wide range of applications. The microphone receiver offers a single channel for one transmitter and features true diversity to protect against audio signal drop-out due to movement of the microph
The new A-T Artist Series was inspired by extensive market research and consultations with leading touring artists and FOH engineers who rely on these microphones onstage every night. Satisfying their foremost concerns, these rugged all-metal microphones are engineered for consistently flawless performance, featuring response and low-distortion characteristics to faithfully reproduce the details of virtually any sound source.
For the singer, the Artist Series
Graham thought long and hard about the multi-zoned design solution before coming down in favour of the white, easy-fit AD-CI52T's in this arduous environment. The AD-CI52T's feature an unusually wide frequency range and the ability to deliver higher SPLs. Coupled with wide and even dispersio
Fuzion sales director Paul Ward describes the IP-addressable range, which includes LCD professional panels, matrix switchers and scalers for the corporate boardroom and multimedia market, as a perfect addition to the company's product portfolio.
Ward says he is delighted to have acquired the exclusive UK rights to an integrated, solution driven system. "Our technical sales manager Jez Hunter initially wanted to enhance the control possibilities of our Symetrix SymNet system - but when he discovered Vity, we both saw we could take this a lot further."
Fuzion will be marketing the full Media Bus Control range but concentrating specifi
"Essentially, for our customers, nothing will change," says DiGiCo's managing director Bob Doyle. "The existing US team, including Alan Nichols and Taidus Vallandi, will remain the same. We simply feel that bringing the US into the same structure, both operationally and financially, as the rest of the DiGiCo world will enable us to share our resources in a more effective way and so provide an even better service to our customers."
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Long associated with the printing and newspaper industries, St. Bride's today stages a wide variety of events - from normal Sunday worship to lunchtime concerts, weddings, conferences, editors' forums, lectures and memorial services.
The broadening nature of the programme meant that serious limitations were being exposed in the existing public address system, and broadcast/multimedia specialists, Interactive View, have specified the replacement of the old sound rig with 16 discrete, ultra-compact Martin Audio AQ6 loudspeakers, as part of an overall package. These are powered by three Martin Audio MA900 amplifiers and optimised using Allen & Hea
For the London Moonwalk, Hawthorn provided lighting, staging, rigging and power distribution for the whole site, plus a sound system for the interior of De Boer's pink 8,500.00sq.m marquee, which was large enough to host over 15,000 bra-clad walkers for a pre-marathon pasta party.
Hawthorn's rigging specialists installed Prolyte ground support truss which supported over thirty 6m long banners, as well as PSL's LED videowalls. "We are thrilled to be working on the Edinburgh and Bristol events and look forward to continuing our relationship with Walk the Walk over the coming years," said Hawthorn's MD, Martin Hawthorn.
"Moonwalk is
Available in handheld, headworn, lavalier, guitar and body-pack configurations, the new 700 Series Freeway systems feature automatic frequency scanning, eight selectable frequency-coordinated UHF channels, diversity operation for interference-resistant reception, and a Tone Lock(tm) squelch system that el
"We are excited that we made the decision to join the MVP program," said Premier Mount's Jason Cole. "Now information about our products will be easily accessible to SI users worldwide, directly through the program. We are pleased to team up with D-Tools and have our company and product information available to such a diverse market of system integrators and custom installers. It is a great way for us to expand our reach.&
Among the first productions to benefit from the new equipment was Sony's pre-E3 press event announcing the forthcoming November 17 launch of its new PlayStation 3. Held at Stage 15 of Sony Picture Studios just prior to the convention, CT paired an elaborate video presentation setup with a 5.1 system featuring left and right arrays each sporting nine dV-Dosc with adjacent hangs of three dV-S
In addition to being asked to review the document to see if it offers adequate advice, reviewers are asked to look for protected intellectual property in the draft standard. ESTA does n
Names include Paul van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Richie Hawtin, Tiësto, John Digweed, Sander Kleinenberg, Louie Vega, Ferry Corsten, Chris Liebing, Hernan Cattaneo, Sven Väth, Nic Fanciulli, Chris Fortier, Roni Size, Andy C, Jason Blum (Deepsky), Armin Van Buuren, Miguel Migs, Junkie XL, Layo & Bushwacka!, Steve Lawler, Carl Cox, Seb Fontaine, Rollo (Faithless), Tall Paul, Josh Wink, Eve Falcon, and D:Fuse.
Pete Tong was the 101st DJ to add his signature, and the occasion has been ceremoniously mark
DVR2 is the most precise EMT250 emulator to date, suitable for both studio and live use, say TC Electronic. It presents fine-tuned qualities of the original processor such as sweet modulation, spectral balance, spaciousness and saturation. The Vintage Reset function produces a sound very close to a well-preserved EMT250, which is still a favorite on lead vocals in studios fortunate enough to own one.
NonLin2 is an effects reverb offering easy-to-tailor compact room-feel applicable on any lead vocal or mix. Unlike the traditional natural sounding TC reverbs, NonLin2 is capable of generating compact vocal ambience, percussive and dramatic dru
The whole Fan Fest area runs for two kilometres on the Strasse des 17 Juni finishing at the Victory Column and is known as Fan Mile, an area of around 77,000 square meters, equivalent to 12 football pitches.
Of course, a vital ingredient for this area is a sound system capable of delivering good quality sound for fans to experience the whole World Cup match atmosphere, as well as provide sound for the peripheral events. Once the matches are over each day, Fan Mile turns into Berlin's biggest dance floor. Every day at midnight a laser show heralds the s
Dirty Dancing premiered in Sydney in 2004 breaking all box office records. This was followed by a German version in Hamburg, which continues playing to full houses. The sound designer is Bobby Aitken (We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia!) and the production sound engineer will be Autograph's Andy Brown. The sound system will feature the D5T and DS-00 Digital mixers from Digico, band monitoring will be via Formula Sound's Q18 personal mixers and the main front-of-house loudspeaker system a combination of d&b Q1 and L'Acoustics dV-Dosc.
Dirty Dancingjoins the long
A lot has changed since the first Mayday rave fifteen years ago at Berlin's Weißensee. Now staged at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, the event has grown larger and more professional, without sacrificing any of its charm, as this year's event, attended by just under 25,000 ravers, demonstrated.
Live shows from such stars of the scene as The Prodigy and cult DJ Westbam contributed to event; and the sound was provided by TSE AG Berlin.
The event organisers wanted the ground to shake, and they called in the celebrated Berlin soundsmiths
"The reaction when we introduced the FF-6000 early last year was tremendous," explains Formula Sound's Barry Penaligon. "That prompted us to look at other versions of the same concept and by listening again to what our customers wanted we arrived at the new FF-4000 mixer."
Customer feedback was an essential element in the creation of the original FF-6000 mixer which was designed in coll
The Cheese & Grain in Frome, Somerset dates back to 1874 when the building housed a busy market. The produce sold at the market was loaded onto railway wagons at the rear and transported to other parts of the country.
Before local dealers, Sounds of Frome moved in to bring the venue's sound reinforcement into the new millennium the venue had experienced a chequered recent history. Although several semi-permanent extensions had been added, the building deteriorated, and until 1997 was used as a temporary storage area. In the 1990's it was purchased by Mendip District Council and leased to Frome Town Council who undertook a programme of repairs and refurbishme
