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Shure designed the new TwinPlex line of subminiature microphones to address the unique requirements of news reporting, film, television, and, in our industry, corporate events and theatrical productions. These...
Stellar RF and Audio Performance in the 470-636 MHz Band
Every now and again, I have to take a step back and marvel at the technology we have available to us today. As I began to look at the...
All too often, I have a client who has a projection need that falls into the gap between the available options. It may be pricing or features, but I...
Christie Digital is bringing the features and capabilities from their high-end projection products to more of their line up. I had the opportunity to spend time with the DHD850-GS...
Sony has been in the laser projection business since 2013. They have two broad lines of projectors that are aimed at the installation market. One is what Sony refers...
Unveiled at the 2017 NAMM Show in Anaheim, the TG 500 wireless system series is an affordable and flexible wireless series from renowned German pro audio manufacturer beyerdynamic. Available...
For those unfamiliar with the Bittree brand of patchbays, it is worth noting that the company’s founder, CEO Glenn Garrard, got his start in the music industry by building...
Canon gave us an amazing 4K projector in the REALiS 4K500ST and the REALiS 4K501ST multimedia projectors. Both provide amazing color and clarity. Now, Canon has taken the idea...
Radial ’s unique Space Heater ($1,699 street) is an eight-channel stereo summing mixer featuring a 12AX7 tube per input pair for saturation, packaged in a 1U rack-mount chassis. It...
Yet because PreSonus tends to optimize its designs and technologies for the working musician, it can sometimes limit the same products in the professional realm. That said, PreSonus is...
QSC has been well known in the theater, house-of-worship (HOW) and fixed installation market for decades now for their superb loudspeakers. Clear leaders in powered loudspeaker technologies, QSC has...
Marketed for use in notably physically demanding applications, Samson’s AirLine 88 AH8 is a wireless microphone headset system offering 16 UHF channels, operating within the 24 MHz band. Essentially...
Most of us involved in live sound pursuits have become quite familiar with Peavey loudspeakers over the years. In my experience, they are, in general, physically overbuilt (in a...
Over seven decades, German pro audio manufacturer Sennheiser secured its legendary reputation by building worldclass microphones, headphones and wireless systems, yet arguably some of its most interesting products have...
Having previously reviewed CAD Audio’s CADLive D90 supercardioid dynamic handheld microphone, I was eager to audition the CADLive 3000 UHF Wireless Series. It benefits from having a handheld transmitter...
CAD Audio has become well known for its overachieving products, especially considering their various lines’ relatively low price points. First thriving in the project studio with its Equitek line...
On stages, behind sanctuaries and elsewhere inside theaters, houses-of-worship and various performance venues throughout the country, there is almost always a lack of sufficient test tools available to the...
Designed for hands-free operation, headset microphones—with or without a built-in, in-ear monitor—have become quite popular beyond their original most common applications. From mundane cubicle jobs to glamorous stage work,...
Quite often in our various professional-grade audio I/O schemes, we have adopted user-friendly, functional tools that are built to last a long time, well serving their intended purposes—multi-input/multi-zone analog...
A three-model in-ear monitor range, Audio-Technica’s E-Series offer professional grade monitoring devices at attractive, arguably-bargain price points, suitable for a wide range of applications. From the house-of-worship (HOW) assisted...
TASCAM’s latest incarnation of their DR-100 Linear PCM Recorder—the mkIII handheld—is a rugged and uniquely-equipped location recorder that is notably featured in its versatility, I/O options and intuitiveness, not...
On the heels of the AES Convention in Los Angeles where KRK announced their new line, the V Series (slated to replace VXT), I felt inspired to check out...
One of my favorite handheld dynamic microphones of all time is ElectroVoice’s PL80a, the brand’s top supercardioid dynamic that is frequency-sculpted to translate vocals in live environments, allowing them...
Long recognized as a pioneering name in portable PA (PPA), JBL Professional’s EON Series products are literally everywhere—in clubs, rehearsal spaces, houses-of-worship, theaters, etc. Over time, the EON range...
Over the past few years, Mackie has introduced some profound new wireless mixing solutions for the live sound marketplace, originally marked by the debut of its DL Series. Just...
The DN-700R is a flexible professional multi-format digital recorder with comprehensive I/O, useful for a wide range of applications in theaters and houses-of-worship, educational facilities, production and broadcast studios,...
After having reviewed numerous portable PA (PPA) enclosures over the years—most of which have been powered, two-way full-range speakers with at least a couple of input types available per...
Whether for live, installed sound or location recording applications, Cymatic Audio’s affordable uTrack 24 is a highly-functional yet cleanly designed and intuitive multitrack recorder/player and 24-input/output USB audio interface....
When it comes to installing projectors, we have a rather large array of options from which to choose. So, what make one better than another? Better stated, what are...
It has been a while since I took a close look at one of the newer ultra short-throw projectors. When I started looking closely at the NP-UM352W, I was...
Last year I reviewed Audio-Technica’s System 10 PRO, the company’s well-received 2.4 GHz wireless system platform offering user-friendly operation via half-rack chassis with two receiver unit slots. Through an...
It has been a while since I took a close look at one of the newer ultra short-throw projectors. When I started looking closely at the NP-UM352W, I was...
Though new portable PA speaker enclosures are increasingly self-powered—encompassing lightweight, high-power Class D amplification—many professionals still require separate amplifiers for their preferred passive speaker enclosures. Recognizing the needs of...
With design headquarters in Vienna and manufacturing facilities in China, Perschon led his design/build team to pursue new, progressive microphone designs. The results are most apparent in Lewitt’s studio-...
Designed for use as a broadcast vocal microphone, the BP40 is actually quite superb in a broad range of applications where a large diaphragm dynamic (LDD) transducer with a...
We’ve heard a lot about laser-based projection over the last three or four years. From the outset, the technology promised low maintenance and long lamp life. Early models were...
Key features of the updated DriveCore 2 Series include expanded DSP capabilities with band pass filters; user-controllable lighting and a display sleep function; selectable 1.4Vrms or 0.775Vrms input sensitivity,...
Will deliver both main and dual stage monitor duties quite well in many small- to medium-size rooms.
Mid-level portable PA offers powerful yet efficient performance
A rugged electret condenser shotgun mic built to unobtrusively capture many live events
SUDBURY, Mass. — June 10, 2021 — Yamaha Unified Communications is teaming up with HuddleCamHD to further enhance Yamaha’s portfolio of scalable, high-quality collaboration solutions with easy-to-deploy audio and...
Encoders, decoders, and a drag and drop controller
Chyron to Enable NBC Olympics to Employ Sophisticated Studio Wall and On-Air Graphics During Its Coverage of Tokyo Olympics STAMFORD, Conn. — June 9, 2021 — NBC Olympics, a...
LAWRENCE, Kan. — June 8, 2021 — Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service-based enterprise data protection, today announced that its Compass® enterprise SaaS backup solution is now...