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Midas Pro6
David Rahn, Renkus-Heinz national sales manager with the
VerSys VLX3
you add a couple of extra breakouts and
one snake can take on several different
forms, the savings really add up.
Let’s Go To Vegas
I always said LDI was a squint show,
and with the apparent demise of the ET
Live “shoot-out” event, there was way less
audio there than in the past few years.
But there were a few noteworthy exceptions,
including the U.S. introduction of
the Midas Pro6 (which we told you about
a couple of issues ago).
On the show floor itself, Production
Intercom was doing the “little-guy-leapfrogs-the-corporate-competition”
thing
with a very cool “comm.-over-IP” device
called the IP 901. It connects via and XLR
and Cat 5 and lets any Internet-connecteddevice
signal, call or listen to the comm.
system from anywhere in the world. It also
includes automatic echo cancellation and
DSP, which means you don’t have to deal
with the calibration time suck. At just $5K,
I expect to see these in a bunch of places.
A few miles away at a local production
company, JBL unveiled the new VerTec DP
Series powered full-size 4889 line array.
With the same wood construction that
4889 fans are used to now coupled with
three channels of what is basically Crown
iTech and the dbx version 4 settings from
the DriveRack 4800, they sounded, to me,
more musical than any other set of 4889s
I have heard (well, except for the ones that
were already running those 4800 version
4 settings).
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JBL VerTec DP Series Powered Full-Size 4889 line array
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Meyer SB-3F Sound Field Synthesis Loudspeaker
2008 NOVEMBER
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