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Audio-Technica’s “Drum Mic Basics” Tutorial Videos Demonstrate the Fundamentals of Recording a Drum Kit

As performers adjust to an upcoming summer without much live music on the horizon, musicians are finding creative ways to create content at home. To help in those goals, Audio-Technica has been offering a series of resources for people recording in isolation. The company’s online YouTube series “Drum Mic Basics” features 10 videos covering all aspects of recording a drum kit. The videos are short and engaging, easy to follow and filled with useful information.

“Basic Drum Miking: The Kick Drum” lays out strategies for picking a proper bass drum mic and outlines techniques for mic placement inside the drum. In separate videos, the components of a drum kit are each given individual attention, including toms, snare, ride cymbal, and hi-hat, with mic placement and proper mic selection explored in detail for each of these instruments. “The Room,” “The Full Kit” and “The Overheads” are also spotlighted in their own videos, demonstrating the techniques to get the proper overall ambience to make the drums sound unified and balanced.

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Obsidian Control Systems Presents ONYX at Your Service Webinar, May 28

Obsidian Control Systems is pleased to be presenting an ONYX at Your Service webinar May 28 at 10am PST focused on lighting control and programming for Houses of Worship. ONYX is Obsidian’s powerful and scaleable lighting control platform that is a popular choice for many Houses of Worship around the world. It is affordable at any budget and easy to learn for volunteers while having the feature set and power to drive large gatherings.

In this webinar, Obsidian Control Systems Product Manager Matthias Hinrichs will lead a two-hour discussion with experienced ONYX programmers and lighting designers Chris Eguizabal of Riverside, California, and Joseph Wolff of Calgary, Alberta. Get insight into their workflow and programming styles and understand the components needed to put together small and large ONYX systems for churches and other HoW venues.

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Ithaca Church Makes 177-Speaker Setup Elegant and Effective Through Ashly Audio Solutions

First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca had a not uncommon challenge for houses of worship: a beautiful worship space featuring a fantastic and ornate pipe organ was resulting in unintelligible audio. The solution? A top-of-the-line, pew-back speaker setup simplified by Ashly Audio offerings.

George Gleason, owner of George’s Pro Sound Company LLC, is the integrator who helped the church transform its audio performance into an experience as stunning as the church itself. But to achieve that result took some atypical audio design.

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Yamaha Expands RIVAGE Digital Mixing Systems

Yamaha Corporation today announced new additions to the company’s professional audio lineup—the RIVAGE PM5 and RIVAGE PM3 Digital Mixing Systems—giving sound engineers greater choice and flexibility to deliver optimum sound in a broader range of applications.

The systems feature new CS-R5 and CS-R3 control surfaces, along with the DSP-RX and DSP-RX-EX DSP engines. These refinements add new levels of versatility and scalability to the Yamaha RIVAGE PM series, which has earned a stellar reputation for its outstanding sonic quality and flexible control.

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Vox Church in New Haven, Connecticut, Broadcasts Live Services Using Waves SuperRack and Plugins

A1 sound engineer Eugene “Geno” Mulcahy uses Waves SuperRack, Waves Axis Proton computer and Waves plugins for broadcast at the Vox Church based out of New Haven, Connecticut.

“Due to COVID-19,” Mulcahy says, “many churches, ours included, are now challenged with creating a high-quality web-stream/broadcast presentation for their parish. To achieve a smooth-running stream, we went along with a setup that includes a DiGiCo S21 with a DMI Waves SoundGrid® interface and a Waves Axis Proton computer running the Waves SuperRack plugin host and all plugin processing handled by the Waves Proton Server. We are streaming live, so I create a mix by using Waves plugins so I can manage all levels once I set them in. Waves plugins directly address the input level at the video deck, and I am able to set and get the most consistent output level to video. We also record all the services for a future broadcast.”

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Create Detailed Acoustic Simulations With EASE Focus

A.C. ProMedia is pleased to partner with AUDAC to offer you online training sessions to keep you up to date on the products and technologies available through AUDAC.

As a brand, AUDAC is committed to supporting you in the best way possible to create unforgettable AV experiences across the globe. That's why AUDAC has recently made the necessary investments to extend the integration of their range of loudspeakers into EASE Focus. With EASE Focus, system designers can simulate the acoustical performance of the complete sound system to find the optimal setup for any given venue.

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Introducing LUMICORE by Luminex

Luminex Network Intelligence is delighted to introduce the LUMICORE, the newest addition to the LUMINODE family. Designed to allow simple, flexible control of network Lighting data from multiple sources. LUMICORE routes, merges, converts, restricts and, allows multiple streams of ArtNet and sACN data from multiple sources to be managed in a clear intuitive way.

Designed to provide simple management of the increasingly complex task of integrating different network lighting elements, LUMICORE is ideal for easily managing multiple lighting consoles at a festival, routing lighting control from gallery to studio in TV, integrating remote follow spot systems into a lighting system, including Follow-Me’s Remote Tracking Follow Spot System, separating Lighting data from a venue IT infrastructure, or merging media server data for pixel mapping large LED arrays.

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New Bittree 12G+ Micro-Video Self-Normalling Patchbay Delivers 4K and 8K Productivity with 2×48 Density

Bittree, a leading manufacturer of high-quality audio and video patchbays and patch panels, today introduced a new member of its award-winning 12G+ family of single-link video patchbays. Supporting 4K transmission over a single 12Gb/s SDI connection, the 12G+ Micro-Video Self-Normalling High-Density Single-Link Patchbay offers 2x32 or 2x48 density in 1RU, 1.5RU, or 2RU form factors.

Offering high-density connectivity in space-efficient configurations, the 12G+ Micro-Video patchbay is ideal for production trucks, broadcast centers, production facilities, and high-end commercial applications. The new patchbay delivers 24 GHz, high-bandwidth performance for SD/SDI, HD/SDI, UHD/SDI, 4K, 8K, and HDR applications. Compliant with SMPTE 292M, 424M, 2081-1, and 2082-1, the 12G+ patchbay provides true 75-ohm impedance with low return loss. The 12G+ Micro-Video patchbay is also available with self-terminating and non-terminating connections.

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