Sound & Communications April 2008 issue

flexibility in the way they might set up
the performance platform for different
musical groups,” Brawley said. “It’s
different from a church in that they
don’t have the same band for every
service.”
The floor monitors complement an
Aviom A in-ear monitoring system,
which Brawley said has been well received
by touring performers. The
system includes six Aviom A 1611
personal mixers, an A-16D Pro A-Net
distributor and a 16/0 Y1 Yamaha A-
Net Card to connect it to the FOH
mixer, a Yamaha LS9 digital console,
expanded from 32 channels to 40.
“Most musicians are able to home
right in on the system,” Brawley said.
Preconfigured System
The monitoring system is preconfigured
because most instruments tend to
show up in the same position regardless
of what band is performing. The
mixing console makes it easy to make
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minor adjustments to the system, as
well. Brawley said, “In addition to
feeding each instrument to the musicians
so they can mix themselves, I
feed two of the channels as a left and
right PA mix. If anyone gets confused,
he can dial those in and hear the
same mix that is coming out of the PA
on his Aviom station.”
Two Marantz CDR510 dual CD
player/recorders play background
music. One recorder can receive a
direct digital output from the mixer
for live audio recording. “Having the
output available directly from the digital
console into the CD player both on
record and playback is one of the ad-
Southern Digital
Products, Inc.
Huntsville AL-based Southern Digital
Products, Inc., with offices in Birmingham
AL and Nashville TN, is a manufacturers’
representative, value-added reseller
and systems integrator. Founded
more than 13 years ago by husband and
wife team Terri and Walter Bridges, this
family-owned company is one of the few
in the audiovisual industry with a female
CEO. Owned and operated by Terri
Bridges, the company now has 10 fulltime
employees.
Specializing in broadcast video installations
at television stations, and
audiovisual installations in the government,
educational, corporate and
religious markets, Southern Digital
remains “committed to the digital
transition” through an expanding line of
digital broadcast products, used sideby-side
with analog solutions, when
appropriate.
The company recently hosted the Rocket
City Digital Showcase in the Von Braun
Center in Huntsville AL, which brought
together 60 manufacturers displaying
products for broadcast television,
government R&D and analysis,
command and control applications,
conference and boardroom presentations,
house of worship applications and
more.
Recent projects include audiovisual
systems in the control room at Cape
Canaveral in Florida and several large
government security contractor AV
installations.
For more information, go to
www.sdpi.net.
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