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Lucky 13
Midas PRO6s
DALLAS, TX—Sound Productions
Belmont Hosts Presidential Debate, Block Party
by Freeman Count sound, Tony Cottrill. “It’s based events for up to 1,000 people. ran FOH, as he’s done pretty
(Dallas) has purchased 13 PRO6
NASHVILLE, TN—Not all the sound on a working model of a real- The Festival system, used to cover much since the CAAB purchased
digital live performance sys-
tems from Midas (www.midas- and hubbub concerning the Presi- world sound reinforcement com- the Block Party stage, is based the M7CL in August 2007. “It’s a
consoles.com), the first major dential Debate hosted at Belmont pany,” says Cottrill. “The compa- around a Yamaha M7CL-48 digi- great console to learn on,” he
purchase of the new console in University was inside the Curb ny helps me book events, quotes tal console, purchased from Clair says. “It’s not complicated, you
the Americas. Event Center on October 7. Out- on productions, maintains gear, Brothers Audio, and a JBL VRX don’t have to dig for what you
side the Center that day, Belmont supplies engineers for shows, line-array speaker system. want and it’s really perfect for
Radian Redesigns University’s Curb College student- preps the sound system and Belmont senior, David Venus, (continued on page 62)
Company Website
run sound reinforcement compa- maintains the books. It’s com-
ny, Clear as a Bell, provided pletely student-run and student-
ORANGE, CA—Radian Audio sound for an afternoon Block Par- staffed.” All CAAB employees
Engineering has re-launched ty, featuring acts like The Nova have either completed or are cur-
the company’s website, Ray (Belmont students), Greg rently enrolled in Curb College’s
www.radianaudio.com, with a
Bates (a Belmont junior from Audio Engineering Technology
new look.
Brentwood, TN), Sarah Darling Advanced Sound Reinforcement
Rock Band Nabs (Black River Music), Chris Sligh
(Brash Music), and Bomshel (Curb
course.
The sound company has two
Sennheiser Mics
OLD LYME, CT—Under an agree-
Records).
Clear as a Bell (CAAB) is the
systems: a PA system for smaller
on-campus musical and speaking
ment with the game’s develop-
brainchild of Belmont University’s events, and a Festival PA system
ers, Sennheiser (www. Curb College coordinator of live for larger on- or off-campus
sennheiserusa.com) virtual
mics, events and accessories
appear in the videogame Rock
Yamaha PM5D
Band 2.
AKG Acquires Crown
Tests Its Metal
NEW YORK, NY—Judas Priest and
Heaven and Hell both received
Microphone Distribution WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU JON LEMON, MAKE MUSIC: Janet
Jackson’s current tour has had troubles with cancelled
shows due to illness and support act LL Cool J’s sudden
NORTHRIDGE, CA—AKG Acoustics Van Halen, U2, Cream and The
monitor mixes on this sum- departure, but one reliable aspect has been FOH engineer
has acquired worldwide distribu- Cheetah Girls, can be found on Jon Lemon’s DiGiCo D5 console. He explained, “I knew I
mer’s Metal Masters Tour that
were mixed on Yamaha tion rights for Crown micro- concert stages around the world. needed something dependable because I have over 100
(www.yamahaca.com) PM5D phones. Both companies are Thomas Stubics, product man- snapshots in the console. Sonically, the D5 is the best thing
consoles. owned by Harman International, ager for recording and broadcast out there, but I have not tried the SD7 yet.”
which bought AKG in 1993 and at AKG, stated, “Crown micro-
Crewspace Hits later purchased Crown in 2000.
Typically, Crown is best
phones are among the elite and
are top-of-the-line products that
expertise in the global micro-
phone business, the new partner-
its distribution infrastructure, and
the partnership with Crown will
5,000 Mark
NEW YORK, NY—The popular
known for its amplifiers and sys-
tem control products for audio
are very well known for their out-
standing performance. The diver-
ship of AKG and Crown is a logi-
cal next step that will benefit the
solidify our global distribution
strategy.”
“roadie only” social network markets worldwide, although sity of the Crown microphone line customers and business partners AKG
site, Crewspace.com, recently some of its mics, most noticeably is the perfect match for AKG’s for AKG and Crown micro- www.akg.com
gained its 5,000th member, the CM-311A headset mic, used stronghold as a source of indus- phones. AKG has invested a large Crown
and has added new features
in recent years by acts such as try-leading products. With AKG’s amount of time and money into www.crownaudio.com
like a venues database.
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Showcases. Each year, Belmont holds six
Debate Block
Showcases, where the first five events fea-
ture a specific genre, presenting four acts
apiece. Each act performs three original
Party
compositions, with a 90-second change-
over between acts, and one group is select-
ed as the winner from each genre, judged
by a prestigious panel drawn from the
(continued from page 47) Nashville music industry. Each winner from
the first five showcases performs at the fi-
what we do here. There’s not many places nal showcase, “Best of the Best,” to battle
where you can go to school and use for the title of “The Best.”
equipment of this quality in a real-world “The showcase is the end goal of what
environment.” I teach my sound reinforcement students,”
Clear as a Bell uses the M7CL as a FOH says Cottrill. “Showcases are staffed entire-
console, and as a monitor desk for Bel- ly from our student body. All of the enter-
mont’s 5,900-seat Curb Event Center tainers are Belmont students or alumni.”
The block party held outside the
Belmont University presidential
debate rocked the house courtesy of
a Yamaha M7CL console and JBL VRX
line-array boxes.
The concerts are complete with concert
staging and rigging: Clair Brothers Audio
(Nashville) and Bandit Lites (Nashville) sup-
ply production. (Video from these showcas-
es, also student-produced, can be viewed
on youtube.com.)
“For showcases, we rent Clair Brothers
Audio production,” says Cottrill. “The stu-
dents can select their FOH console for
Event Center Showcases—and 95 percent
of the time, they choose the Yamaha
PM5D.” (David Venus runs FOH for the
Showcases.) “I require the students to use
the Yamaha M7 for monitors,” says Cot-
trill, “be it wedges or IEMs or a combina-
tion. They’ll run into this desk a lot as they
enter the field, so it’s important for them to
learn this console. I use it as my main digi-
tal console for classroom instruction.”
Cottrill also runs monitors for Ronnie
Milsap. In the summer months, when
school is not in session, the CAAB M7CL
goes out on the road. “It’s my requested
desk on Milsap’s rider,” Cottrill says.
Mike Curb College of Entertainment
and Music Business at
Belmont University
www.belmont.edu/mb
12 Stone
(continued from page 48)
each auditorium can play global content or
local content.
Danley loudspeakers deliver sound in
each auditorium. The main auditorium fea-
tures an LCR cross-matrix system with three
clusters of six SH-50s each and two small
clusters for sidefill, while nine SH-100s pro-
vide room delay and eight TH-115 sub-
woofers low end from three floating cardioid
sub arrays. A Lexicon Lares acoustical room-
enhancement system uses 58 SH-100s and
processing to manipulate the room’s
acoustics in space and time. The smaller au-
ditoriums feature mono systems with pairs of
Danley SH-100s and, where needed, use ad-
ditional SH-100s for sidefill.
Sennheiser
www.sennheiserusa.com
psn November 2008