AVI-SPL Kicks off Webinar Series
Tampa, FL–AVI-SPL is pleased to announce the launch of its new webinar series AVI-SPL University Online, a set of 13 sessions throughout 2011. Hosted by AVI-SPL and its manufacturer partners, the free webinar series will focus on emerging technologies and applications. NEC Display will host the inaugural webinar entitled “Success …
K-array makes Audio History at the Verona Opera Festival
VERONA, Italy – February 7, 2011: The Verona Opera Festival is not only renowned for its sublime operatic performances, but for its historic venue–the 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre, built in 30 AD. Since the inception of the Verona Opera in 1913, performances at the Festival at the Arena di Verona have …
JBL Professional Introduces Its Best EON Loudspeaker Ever: The New EON515XT
ANAHEIM, California – JBL Professional today introduced its EON515XT active loudspeaker. As the flagship of the iconic JBL powered portable speaker collection, the EON515XT was engineered for durability, high performance and ease of use. JBL has extended the reach of the current EON technology by improving input sensitivity, lowering the …
Drummer Boy Backs Hammond With Martin
Miami, FL (February 7, 2011)–Drummer Boy Productions recently provided an entire Martin Audio system for a concert by Gospel artist Fred Hammond at the Jesus People Ministries Church in Miami Gardens. Hammond takes a keyboard player, drummer, bass, guitar and percussion players along with three background singers. Asked to provide …
Advanced Subwoofer Techniques
There are a few tricks you can pull out of your sleeve to make your low frequency arrays work better. By building directional subwoofer arrays, energy can be kept off the stage and walls and kept on the audience where it belongs. These arrays require a little more signal processing …
Run and Gun Subwoofer Arraying
Of all the tweaking I do as a system tech, the most common is fixing mediocre subwoofer setups. Problems in this area are so prevalent that most audio professionals take them for granted or assume there is no room for improvement. There is often a better solution, which furthermore is …
Loudspeaker Fundamentals: How to Power Your Drivers
The entire industry knows that loudspeaker drivers are fragile, and that careful attention needs to be paid to how much amplifier power is applied to each component in a sound system. This is especially true in our world of Live Sound, where we are always trying to push our speakers …
Loudspeaker Misconceptions: Which is Good for What?
There is a lot of misinformation floating about regarding the benefits and detriments of line array and point source loudspeaker technology. For reasons unclear to me, the industry seems to be split down the middle with dogmatic “traditionalists” on one side, “new-fangled” line source users on the other, and the …
The Usability Conundrum
There have been a few events recently that have renewed my interest in usability, that is the ability of a human being like you or me to effectively manipulate a piece of equipment in order to attain some result. This is an especially important issue in the constant battlefield that …
Damping Factor: Soggy at Best
Of all the misunderstood specifications in this industry, Damping Factor (DF) probably receives more misplaced significance than anything. While, aside from a few exceptions, manufacturer spec sheets are broad generalizations that shouldn’t be used by anyone as the primary basis to compare anything, the Damping Factor spec is especially meaningless …
