Like other members of the ICON family, the new D-Command ES boasts integration with industry-standard Pro Tools HD software, including complete recall of all session parameters, routing, and plug-ins. Expandable up to 24 faders, D-Command ES features dedicated central controls for editing EQ and Dynamics plug-ins, enabling mixers to make adjustments while monitoring in the "sweet spot." It also provides per-channel control
The programme will be held during PALME Asia in Singapore on Wednesday, 9 July at the Suntec Singapore International Exhibition & Convention Centre. Niclas Arvidsson, International sales manager and co-founder of Wireless Solution will host the session and will cover topics including the pros and cons of wireless control, how it works, radio protocols (W-LAN, Bluetooth, etc.), choosing a radio system, system planning, and peripheral equipment.
"We're very excited about the educational series," says Arvidsson, "We encourage everyone to attend - dealers, specifiers, students - no matter what your level of knowledge on the subject. I
Sound engineer, Joan La Roda, arrived from Spain and Juan Luís García, D.A.S. Audio Asia director, from Singapore to give their support to the D.A.S. distributor at the stand. In Seoul, La Roda explained the technical features and applications of the line array systems in the seminar entitled Line Arrays: How they work. The next subject was Subwoofer Configurations and Time Alignment where he addressed the different types and features.
Joan La Roda's next stop was in Auckland (New Zealand) where he visited Edwards Sound's, a D.A.S. client, new installatio
UTV is involved in production and distribution for movies, broadcasting, interactive (gaming), television and new media (web, mobile & iptv). The company has operations across the UK, USA, Middle East and Australia, and has one of the biggest dubbing facilities in India with a presence in three Indian cities. UTV's client list includes National Geographic Channel, the History Channel, Bindass, Disney, TV18 and Hungama TV.
The new ZED FX mixer has been installed in UTV's Delhi sound studios. "Since we founded the business in 1990 we have installed Allen & Heath mixers in our studios as they always meet our requirements and budget," explains UTV Dubbing Division's technical manager, Rajesh Nair. "
Long known for its award-winning products and exceptional customer service, Meyer Sound understands the pressure audio professionals could face during setup for a live show or in the middle of a critical installation. Meyer Sound believes that accessible service is essential to ensure success for each customer.
"We take pride in giving our customers 100% confidence when using our products, from highly reliable and pristine-sounding equipment to accessible and knowledgeable support when they need it," says John Monitto, director of technical support. "It is important for us to work closely with our customers and give them the attention they deserve."
For Meyer Sound's 24-hour techni
"We evaluated a variety of products before deciding to purchase iLive, looking at overall value for money, quality of sound, features, ease of use and flexibility. We chose iLive because of its simple interface for analogue desk users and its ability to provide full DSP to every input and output. iLive's flexible architecture and micro footprint makes set-up very easy, yet we still have the capacity to manage up to 64 inputs and 32 outputs," explains Stuart Roberts, MD of SRD Group.
SRD Group provides dry hire or complete event management services for entertainment
"After the Company introduced its first manufactured product, the 33N microphone, in 1932, Mr. Shure began to establish a network of sales representatives, and S.K. Macdonald was one of the first," said Sandy LaMantia, president and CEO of Shure. "Our companies have enjoyed a long and productive partnership over the years, and we're looking forward to continued success."
SK Macdonald is one of the professional audio industry's oldest and most experienced representative firms. The company currently represents some of the industry's most-respected manufacturers, incl
Converted from Victorian-era bank vault to sophisticated lounge bar, The Treasury needed an installation with the audio quality to match its uniquely impressive décor.
"The Treasury doesn't have a dance floor," explains Zhev Liberson, director of Clockwork Audio. "It's a sophisticated bar that's music orientated. The volume isn't up to nightclub levels but it's vital that everyone is able to hear the music. The APart system does deliver that kind of quality, and it gives a very good representation of music from different sources like MP3 and CD."Fellow director of Clockwork Audio Systems Ltd David Monk paired eight APart MASK6-W wall mounted speakers with two SU
Beginning in the middle of May with two nights at Glasgow Academy, the tour took in venues of varying sizes including Manchester Apollo, The Cambridge Corn Exchange, Portsmouth Guildhall, Carling Academy Birmingham, and Brighton Dome and carried 24 TA-890H three-way mid/high cabinets, 24 TA- 890L bass cabinets and eight TSW-218 subs, plus a substantial Turbosound stage monitoring system comprising TFM-450 wedges and TQ-445s for side fills. Control was via XTA DP448s and power from Turbosound-badged
Plant kicked things off minus Krauss with a backing band featuring T-Bone Burnett. Things took a progressively country turn when Krauss stepped onstage, adding her ethereal vocals and signature fiddle sound
Shure hardwired microphones were used by both artists, an SM58 for Plant and a Beta 58 for Krauss.
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"The brief was to design and install a completely new sound system," explains Eddy O'Hare of Audio Light Systems. "They wanted good quality speech, minimal user interface and a heavy use of radio mics."
The answer to that request was a host of radio mic equipment from Sennheiser. The lectern would be home to a ME 34 condenser microphone capsule and a MZH 3042 flexible gooseneck, connected to a SKP 500 G2 plug on transmitter that turned the wired mic into a wireless mic, which in turn would be paired with an EM 300 receiver. For the rest of the Cathedral, ALS chose four ew 322 G2 lapel radio mic kits, two ew 365 hand held wireless mic systems and two ASP 2
Being shown for the first time in the UK, the Micro 88 brings all of the performance, operational and cost advantages over conventional stereo systems unique to airSound, to wide range of commercial audio applications, the company adds. Measuring just 510mm x 240mm x 240mm, the Micro 88 air incorporates DARE's proprietary Inti Q X-over and phase linear porting system.
The distinctive curved pseudo-trapezoidal cabinet boasts a 500w continuous music programme power capability in its airSound guise.
With true stereo reproduction from a single cab, instead of left and right channel ca
The SM11 is part of a system that collects samples of exhaust gases from the Shuttle orbiter's propulsion system aft fuselage area to sense any gas leaks in the plumbing. During ascent, an SM11 Microphone mounted inside a system electronics box, picks up the sound generated from the orbiter propulsion area at launch. Its output signal controls equipment that triggers a sequencing of pyro-valve devices that enable air samples to enter each of 6 vacuum bottles at various times during the ascent. The collected gas samples are later analyzed after the orbiter returns to Earth. Having this data can save maintenance and inspection hours.
"Using the SM11 as the triggering
"The confidence behind this purchase was driven by hands-on demonstrations by Sound Art and Mark Kulas (of Midas rep firm PAG Canada), followed by in-depth discussions of the features and advantages the XL8 offers," says Matt Larson, Americas sales manager, Midas.
Dave Cousins of Sound Art adds: "During the specification process, it became clear to the customer that the Midas XL8's sonic performance, ease of use, and ultimate flexibility could not be beaten by any other product out there. The fact that the XL8 is being used on the world's highest profile produc
Four dates at the Oslo Rockerfeller Music Hall preceded an appearance at London's Royal Albert Hall. The concerts showcased each member of a-ha with their individual bands for 30 minutes, with a-ha coming together to launch two new songs for the finale.
The XL8 belongs to Norwegian rental company Avab-Cac, of which Persson is a director. "I've always been a great fan of Midas consoles and we got our XL8 about a year ago, so I have been lucky enough to play around with it at our warehouse," he says. "When this show came up it was the obvious choice of console, combining supreme audio quality and automation."
As the show was divided into four parts, the XL8's automation really came into its own, allowing Pers
One of the country's flagship venues, Amsterdam's Paradiso, has recently been outfitted with a Venue D-Show system, and two of Holland's top rental companies have also invested heavily in Venue systems.
Story Sound, one of the country's largest rental houses, recently added a D-Show Profile and Mix Rack system to their three existing full-size Venue systems. Story Sound's Michael Story reports the acquisition allows them to offer a wider range of systems to their theatre-oriented customer base, with an increasing number of freelance engineers specifying Venue on their shows, including sound designers Bo Bruijs and Dennis Slot.
"We'd originally been attracted to Venue by its comprehensive plug-in support," reports
UBS contracted Habegger AG, a leading Swiss event and production specialist to oversee the sixteen venues. Like similar 'soft skills' organisations, Habegger does not own any equipment, and always rents in goods and services, in this instance from its regular partner Procon Schweiz, specifying high fidelity d&b audiotechnik Q-Series.
Mostly situated in downtown locations, Procon's project leader Elias Ruh explained: "For us the Q-Series system was an obvious choice; small and easy to rig, the 75° horizontal dispersion of this light weight line array is ideal for sound containment in a close urban area. But of course football fans sitting in the listening
The three-day Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California near Palm Springs was the first of the two festivals to use the W-DMX system, which performed double-duty at the back-to-back events. Prince, Roger Waters, and Jack Johnson headlined the Coachella festival that included over 130 bands on five stages.
The system consisted of a single S-1 transmitter and 10 R-512 receivers controlling 20 7kW Falcon moving lights from A&0. The lights were mounted on 30ft towers, surrounding the festival area. An 8dBi omni antenna was at the transmitter, and each receiver had a 24dBi grid antenna. The longest distance was 2033ft (620m).
A repeater link was also set up from the main stage to the site lighting control area so the lights could be incorpor
The Alcons system deployed by Profimusik in Hamburg consisted of six LR16 cabinets per side, with six LR14s as underhang, powered and controlled by ALC2 and DDP processing, with for bass reinforcement a BF302 MK2 per side, powered by an ALC6 amplifier/controller with DDP processing.
As stage-lip fill for the first rows, four units of SR9, also with ALC2 and DDP came into play. Taylor's engineer David Morgan and James' crew were
After months of heats around the country, the final eight beatboxers battled it out at the Grand Final at the London Islington Carling Academy on 13 June. Last year's champion Beardyman, as well as Shlomo and Killa Kela presided over this year's event and eventually judged the winner to be MC Zani.
The KSM9, one of SDUK's flagship microphones which is currently being use
A total of five main stages for live acts were dotted around Coachella - this year headlined by Roger Waters and Prince - with the aforementioned 'cool' area run by the Do Lab artist network. Ostensibly an art installation, it featured kind souls wielding hosepipes to help cool festival-goers off, as well as the latest dance beats and DJ sets playing in 'hexaphonic' sound day and night.
Audio provider Whump! Sound provided an all-Turbosound rig for the installation, with
Disturbing News: Almost one in four secondary schools in England no longer has any specialist physics teachers, a survey suggests. The report, published by academics at the University of Buckingham, warns of a threat to the subject's future. The government has set targets to promote the number of physics teachers in secondary schools. But the report's authors wa
"I have admired the company's product line for many years," says company founder Dirk Schubert. "We received one of the first pallets of amps shipped to the US in 2002, and adopted Lab.gruppen for our systems the first time we listened to them. No other amplifier makes a rig sound as good as Lab.gruppen. I particul
"In the year since its debut, Sonus has become one of our most popular loudspeaker lines," said Julia Lee, Community's director of sales and marketing. "We're pleased to expand this lineup into the S-Series to include both passive and active versions of each model."
The S-1296A and S-1596A are two-way models with 400-Watts of low-frequency power and 100-Watt high-frequency amplification. The S-3294A and S-3594A three-way models add 100W mid-range amps to the package. Powered subwoofers complete the lineup, employing single 1000W amplifiers in
