LEA Professional, the startup turned industry player in the pro audio market, today announced new firmware for the company’s LEA Professional Connect Series amplifiers, including two new open API protocols. According to Bradley Drummond, Director of Application Engineering & Consultant Relations at LEA Professional, the two new open API protocols have been launched in the new firmware version 2.0. The first utilizes WebSockets and the second is TCP based. All control and sensor elements in the amplifier WebUI can now be connected to in both API’s. This includes all DSP parameters, level meters, clip and fault indicators, power supply information…
Author: James Robertson
A modern church lighting system not only allows worship to be enhanced with colour, movement and texture, but it also ensures that pastors, preachers and worship leaders can be seen clearly by their congregation as well as those watching via the increasingly popular and powerful medium of online streaming. That was the motivation behind the recent renovation of the lighting system at Coast Bible Church in California, which commissioned the installation of more than 30 ADJ moving head luminaires. This flexible new system not only vastly increases the church’s creative potential when it comes to lighting times of worship, but…
On 11 July 1240, Emperor Frederick II granted trade fair rights to Frankfurt am Main, marking the birth of Messe Frankfurt. Now, 780 years later, the company can look back on an eventful history in which the Frankfurt trade fair developed from a medieval marketplace into a global player – experiencing many successes and mastering various crises. As soon as Messe Frankfurt celebrates its 780-year anniversary, it will be getting straight back to business: following a global lockdown lasting multiple months, Messe Frankfurt is once again holding trade fairs. It all kicks off with Intertextile Shenzhen Apparel Fabrics on 15…
Biamp has announced that four new conference room audio bundles have been certified for Microsoft Teams, enabling customers to enjoy a complete Biamp audio solution as part of their Microsoft Teams Rooms in medium and large meeting spaces. Each bundle includes Parlé Beamtracking microphones for the tabletop or ceiling, along with all the audio equipment needed to build an outstanding audio experience in Teams Rooms-equipped spaces with zero cable termination and automatic room deployment and configuration. “Biamp’s new bundles certified for Microsoft Teams lets users enjoy the extraordinary audio quality Biamp is known for with full confidence they meet Microsoft’s…
Norway’s National Theatre has made a major investment in DPA’s 6000 Series of Subminiature Microphones because the sound team was so impressed with the tiny size of the capsules and their ability to withstand water, particularly in the form of sweat. Kai Priddy, who for the last 14 years has been the Theatre’s Head of Sound, said: “We started using the 6000 Series in 2019 and now have around 30 — mostly lavalier mics (6060 and 6061), but also some 6066 Headsets. We started gradually phasing out our stock of DPA 4000 Series lavalier and headset microphones, which we have been…
Waves has entered the Commercial Audio world with their first release in an upcoming line – two physical products, the CA1000 and CA2000 Commercial Audio DSP Engines. These products, which dramatically improve audio playback quality and speech intelligibility for Dante-based AV installations, both incorporate automixing plugins developed in conjunction with Dan Dugan Sound Design. The Waves implementation of Dugan Automixing brings the popular Dugan Speech System algorithms to users who want to automatically manage multiple live microphones with transparent crossfades and no upcutting. Dugan technologies dramatically reduce feedback, studio noise and comb filtering from adjacent microphones, while maintaining a consistent…
When the Winnebago, Illinois campus of Crossroads Community Church moved into their own building after years of meeting in various rented spaces, they needed a sonic upgrade to replace the portable P.A. systems volunteers had been setting up for their pastors and exuberant worship bands. After performing a thorough analysis of Crossroads’ new home, events specialists White Train Entertainment knew that a QSC active line array would be the perfect fit. They flew four KLA12 cabinets on either side of the stage, tucked a pair of KS212C active cardioid subwoofers underneath, placed two K8.2 active loudspeakers onstage as monitors, and…
CHAUVET Professional took a major step toward serving its growing Spanish market by appointing Eusebio ‘Sebi’ Romero Garcia as Product Specialist for Spain. An experienced and highly regarded lighting and stage technician, as well as an accomplished photographer, Garcia will be working closely with the company’s Spanish distributor, Barcelona-based, ACSON, to coordinate product training and roadshows throughout the country. “There are exciting opportunities for us in Spain,” said Michael Brooksbank, General Manager of Chauvet Europe. “Sebi’s experience and talent make him a valuable addition to our team as we continue to work with ACSON to build on our success and…
Wireless LED lighting manufacturer Astera launches its newest innovation – the NYX Bulb – a name inspired by NYX, Greek Goddess of the Night, a mysterious figure of exceptional power and beauty, feared even by Zeus himself. NYX Bulb – the same size as a standard LED bulb – is the first colour-tuneable LED bulb for professional film, stage, and event productions. It comes complete with a CRMX receiver for wireless DMX, plus RF and Bluetooth modules for control via the Astera App on a smartphone or Tablet. It is lightweight, hugely flexible, and highly controllable, and as always, Astera…
Winter Park, Florida is the newest location for fast-growing Action Church, a worship community in the Orlando area that also has churches in the suburbs of Oviedo, Sanford and South Orlando. The church experienced a startling 150-plus-percent growth between 2017 and 2018, less than four years after it was founded, catapulting it to the number-two position in Outreach magazine’s top 100 fastest-growing churches last year. The Winter Park campus has the distinction of being dubbed the church’s broadcast site, from which Pastor Justin Dailey preaches the church’s Sunday message each week. As such, that location is Action Church’s technology showcase,…
