Dream City Church Adds Allen & Heath dLive and ME-1s

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dLive S7000 Brings Versatile Mixing for Pageants and Broadcast with Ease of Use for Volunteers

DreamCityDream City is a large and growing church with a central campus in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2015, the church added a campus in Scottsdale, Arizona and renovated its 5000-seat Phoenix location. In early 2016, Dream City added a third campus in Glendale, Arizona. As part of its expansion program, the church acquired two Allen & Heath dLive S7000 mixers with DM64 and DM32 MixRacks for its Phoenix location along with twenty ME-1 Personal Mixers and two ME-U Monitor Hubs. The church also acquired a dLive S3000 mixer, DM64 MixRack and ten ME-1s for its Scottsdale location and plans to add another dLive S7000 and DM64 in Glendale this year.

Shawn Smith is Dream City’s Media Director. He says the church previously mixed on a large, analog setup that had 112 inputs with 24 returns and took up sixteen feet of mix booth space. However, even this high channel count was barely adequate for Dream City’s elaborate holiday pageants which may use 110 or more audio channels. The church’s previous analog mixer required several operators for these large productions.

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Washington Professional To Present Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 Digital Audio Console and Advanced Mixing Techniques

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Yamaha RIVAGE PM10Greg Lukens of Washington Professional and Jose Perez of Yamaha Professional Audio will hold three, two-hour presentations on the new Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 Digital Audio Console on Wednesday, August 10, 2016. The event is free of charge and open to all.

The sessions will be held in the clinic room at Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center at 10:00 am, 1:30 pm, and 6:30 pm. The address is 11151 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton MD. Telephone: 301-942-6800.

Topics to be covered in the sessions include: an ‘ears on’ audition of the PM10 and its family of onboard plug-ins, an exploration of Rupert Neve Designs SILK control, and how to build ‘super channels’ by stacking Rupert Neve Designs plug-ins in the channel’s signal path.

Advanced mixing techniques include: parallel compression, side chain compression and gating; reverb tone shaping; the advantages of Yamaha’s ultra-low latency plug-in implementation; and an overview of the console design and configurations.

RSVP to Greg Lukens at gregl@wpsworld.com

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Tech, No Babel: 7 things to look for in the perfect free podcast host

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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but what about free podcast hosts? Look for these 7 things to see if free, is actually too expensive.

Unlimited storage–If you have to delete old episodes, you’re missing out on a segment of the audience that wants all the old content and will download it all when they find it.

No preroll or in-content ads–If you are required to have ads and you lose control over the content of those ads, it could be bad news, even if the content isn’t inherently bad.

Your choice of license–What if you get permission to distribute something that you don’t own. If your free podcast host requires you to use a creative commons license, when you don’t have the right to do so (for that content you got permission to include), you could find yourself in trouble.

Full podcast feature support (including byte range requests)–There are some features that are kind of obscure, like byte-range requests, but could cause problems if you don’t have them. Make sure any free podcast host supports all the features of a podcast.

Feed portability–Your feed is your link to your audience. Make sure you can take it wherever you go at any time, for any reason. Without it, you could lose your audience because you had to or wanted to move.

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