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Parnelli Audio Innovator Kenton Forsythe

"There is not a professional audio engineer out there today that doesn't touch something Kenton Forsythe is directly responsible for," says Terry Lowe, Parnelli Awards executive producer and publisher of FOH. "We are proud to honor him with the Audio Innovator Award at this year's Parnellis."

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Delicate Tames Sheds for Selena Gomez with MLA

Brennan Houser, Jason Brandt, Javier Alcaraz and Jason Moore

Supporting her new Hollywood Records album When the Sun Goes Down, Selena Gomez is playing two-dozen North American concerts through September. Javier Alcaraz from Delicate Productions' South San Francisco office, now in its second year, is providing a brand new Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) system that is proving valuable for taming the outdoor venues on their itinerary.

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Soundcos Bring Top Gear to Glastonbury 2011

Teams of sound engineers converged at Glasto 2011 armed with the latest technology to ensure that, if the trampled grounds were remembered as wet and muddy, the audio quality would be anything but. The festival, which runs the last weekend of June, was sold out within hours of when tickets went on sale last October, months before Coldplay, Beyoncé and U2 were confirmed as headliners at the festival's main Pyramid stage.

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Soundcraft Plugin and Virtual Sound Check Solution

The auther at Britt Festival FOH with his Soundcraft-RME-Waves solution

I've been using my Soundcraft Vi6 as my FOH console for several years in festival situations because of its ease of use mixing on the fly and getting guest engineers up and running quickly. There were a couple of additional features, however, that I wanted to implement on my console. The first was the ability to record to 48 tracks and bring them back into the console to create a virtual sound check, and the other was to have the ability to use plugins.

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Show Report: InfoComm 2011 Orlando

Returning to Florida June 11-17, with exhibits from June 15-17, InfoComm11 set an attendee record in Orlando, drawing a total 33,000 visitors. It was the second-largest Pro AV trade event ever, topped only by 2008's attendance of 34,600 in Las Vegas. Exhibitors totaled 925, the same as last year, and more than 4,600 attended seminars and workshops.

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Companies Band Together to Form Rental & Staging Network

Unique Association Marks Impressive Growth during Challenging Times

All the members of the Rental & Staging Network would agree that, as a whole, their organization is greater than the sum of its parts. As it barrels toward its fourth year propelled by a serious growth spurt, the organization continues to strive to be a network of top rental and staging companies joined by a common set of principles, high ethical standards and superior performance. 

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OSA and SES Support “Oprah’s Surprise Spectacular”

The gear supported the last episodes of the 25-year-old show, produced before a live audience of 13,000 people.

With combined production support from Special Event Services (SES) and On Stage Audio (OSA), Oprah's Surprise Spectacular was taped May 17 before 13,000 lucky fans, bringing together some of the biggest names in movies, music and television in a one-time-only farewell to celebrate the 25-year legacy of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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Prince Welcome 2 America Tour Gets Support from Rat Sound

Rat Sound is providing sound reinforcement for the current leg of Prince's Welcome 2 America tour. The system consists of six hangs of 10 L-Acoustics K1 in the round with 42 dV-DOSC and 40 SB28 subs powered by L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers, and engineers Majid Malki and Fred Lucas are using an analog Midas Heritage 3000 console.

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Show Report: Prolight+Sound 2011

To download a PDF covering Prolight+Sound 2011, CLICK HERE .

This year's Frankfurt Prolight+Sound (PL+S) exhibition was significantly more buoyant than 2010's event. As with last September's PLASA show in London, there was definitely more of a buzz and manufacturers seemed to have positive expectations for the coming months, which is reassuring for our industry.

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From the Wall to the Monitors Hot Seat

How do you get from a childhood in the walled-in "island" of West Berlin, surrounded by communist East Germany, to a life on the road in the monitors hot seat and a home base just a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip? Andy Ebert, monitors engineer for Stone Temple Pilots, made the journey. But he suggests that the transition for him was far easier than it might have been for a fellow Berliner on the other side of the wall.

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All DSPs Are Not Created Equal

Fig. 1: For every EQ filter desired, the DSP must be told the frequency, amplitude, and bandwidth of the filter. (Chart Credit: rane.com)

It is widely known that different Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) sound different. I have heard this difference ascribed to everything from sample rate to the quality of the limiters, whatever that means. Certainly there is a difference to be found, but I suspect it is not going to be discovered using audiophile words like "warmth" and "depth." Largely to satisfy my own curiosity, I asked users of Sound Forums Network pro audio community (www.soundforums.net) to input a set of identical settings into whatever DSP they had access to and send me the results.

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