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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles continues his chat with Ryan McCurdy from Historic Tours of America about his show control installation at the Oldest Store Museum Experience in St. Augustine, Florida. The exhibit conveys the atmosphere of a turn of the century general store by mixing triggered sound and video with live actors and it even includes an audio animatronic butcher. McCurdy expands on the show design and installation along with the initial testing and tweaking of the event timing. He also discusses his remote monitoring and programming capability.
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Show 54-1
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with senior communications technician Scott Brosious about the new remote van that just went into service for California PEG station Riverside Government TV. Scott describes the station’s programming and provides details on the van’s new JVC GY-HM790U ProHD cameras. He also discusses the CopperHead ProHD KA-FF790 fiber optic transceivers used by the station’s remote crews to broadcast everything from football games to city council meetings.
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Show 53-1
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with Ryan McCurdy from Historic Tours of America about his show control installation at the Oldest Store Museum Experience in St. Augustine, Florida. Ryan provides details on the Alcorn-McBride gear that was used for control and outlines the general tech layout of the exhibit. He also gives an interesting look at how modern technology and techniques were used to create a decidedly old world, turn of the century atmosphere combining real actors with sound and video playback triggered by various means.
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Show 52-2
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles wraps up his chat with Jim Hoyle of Audio & Light in Greensboro, N.C., on the sound system upgrade at Elon University’s Whitley Auditorium. Hoyle provides more details on the Whitley Auditorium sound system including the mixer, wireless microphones, and the audio processor. He discusses the scheduling of the installation around the venue’s crowded event lineup, and outlines the final testing and tweaking of the whole system and how it performed in its first real event.
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Show 51-2
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles completes his discussion with John Williams of Entertainment Arts in Orlando, Florida about the total sound system upgrade done for the First Baptist Church of Altamonte Springs. John expands on the capabilities of the Brooklyn II Dante protocol card from Audinate when it is added to the Allen & Heath iLive mixing system. He also discusses the Sennheiser wireless in-ear monitoring system used by performers and band members at the church.
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Show 52-1
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with Jim Hoyle of Audio & Light in Greensboro, N.C., on the sound system upgrade at Elon University’s Whitley Auditorium. The venue was designed in the 1920’s as an acoustical environment for its Casavant pipe organ, but over the years it has come to be used for a wide variety of events. Hoyle recounts how Audio & Light installed a sound system centered on the DAS Audio Variant series speaker array and how the acoustic environment was initially analyzed.
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Show 51-1
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with John Williams of Entertainment Arts in Orlando, Fla., about the total sound system upgrade done for the First Baptist Church of Altamonte Springs. The installation included a new Allen & Heath iLive T-112 mixer and the Mixpad application for iPad. Williams details the strategy the church followed in equipping all of the band members with iPads to allow them to do their own stereo monitor mixes and he discusses the addition of the mixer’s Brooklyn II Dante card from Audinate.
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Show 50-2
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles continues his chat with Casey Sherred and Brian Elwell of Acoustic Dimensions about a total sound system upgrade at Texas Christian University’s Amon G. Carter Stadium. Brian comments on the challenges involved in meeting multiple deadlines and dealing with installation during the hottest summer on local record. Casey details the design of the club areas where locally controlled ceiling speakers were used by installer Elecro Acoustics and he discusses the final driver alignment and tweaking of the stadium sound system.
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles continues his discussion with Peter Borchard of MuSonics about the sound system and acoustics upgrade at St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, S.D. Borchard provides details on the system design for unattended operation in a church without an inhouse sound technician, and he expands on the challenges presented in the use of microphones in such a reverberant environment. The job of routing cable for long runs in the cathedral is also explored.
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Show 50-1
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In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with Casey Sherred and Brian Elwell of Acoustic Dimensions about a total sound system upgrade at Texas Christian University’s Amon G. Carter Stadium. Casey and Brian provide details on the system design which changed during construction from an end zone system to a distributed system and back to an end zone design. Using JBL VLA line arrays and other speaker models, they completely outfitted the stadium and fitted the surrounding club areas with locally controlled sound setups for all major events.
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