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Belmont Hosts Presidential Debate, Block Party
Lucky 13
Midas PRO6s Productions
DALLAS, TX—Sound
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-
and hubbub concerning the Presi- world sound reinforcement com- the Block Party stage, is based the M7CL in August 2007. “It’s a
tems from Midas (www.midas-
dential Debate hosted at Belmont pany,” says Cottrill. “The compa- around a Yamaha M7CL-48 digi- great console to learn on,” he
consoles.com), the first major
University was inside the Curb ny helps me book events, quotes tal console, purchased from Clair says. “It’s not complicated, you
purchase of the new console in
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 course.
(Brash Music), and Bomshel (Curb The sound company has two
Sennheiser Mics Records). systems: a PA system for smaller
Clear as a Bell (CAAB) is the on-campus musical and speaking
OLD LYME, CT—Under an agree-
brainchild of Belmont University’s events, and a Festival PA system
ment with the game’s develop-
Curb College coordinator of live for larger on- or off-campus
ers, Sennheiser (www.
sennheiserusa.com) virtual
mics, events and accessories
AKG Acquires Crown
appear in the videogame Rock
Band 2.
Yamaha PM5D
Microphone Distribution
Tests Its Metal WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU JON LEMON, MAKE MUSIC: Janet
Priest and Jackson’s current tour has had troubles with cancelled
NEW YORK, NY—Judas
Heaven and Hell both received shows due to illness and support act LL Cool J’s sudden
Acoustics Van Halen, U2, Cream and The
NORTHRIDGE, CA—AKG
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
tion rights for Crown micro- concert stages around the world. needed something dependable because I have over 100
were mixed on Yamaha
phones. Both companies are Thomas Stubics, product man- snapshots in the console. Sonically, the D5 is the best thing
(www.yamahaca.com) PM5D
out there, but I have not tried the SD7 yet.”
owned by Harman International, ager for recording and broadcast
consoles.
which bought AKG in 1993 and at AKG, stated, “Crown micro-
Crewspace Hits later purchased Crown in 2000. phones are among the elite and expertise in the global micro- its distribution infrastructure, and
Typically, Crown is best are top-of-the-line products that phone business, the new partner- the partnership with Crown will
5,000 Mark known for its amplifiers and sys- are very well known for their out- ship of AKG and Crown is a logi- solidify our global distribution
tem control products for audio standing performance. The diver- cal next step that will benefit the strategy.”
NEW YORK, NY—The popular
AKG
“roadie only” social network markets worldwide, although sity of the Crown microphone line customers and business partners
site, Crewspace.com, recently www.akg.com
some of its mics, most noticeably is the perfect match for AKG’s for AKG and Crown micro-
gained its 5,000th member, Crown
the CM-311A headset mic, used stronghold as a source of indus- phones. AKG has invested a large
and has added new features
www.crownaudio.com
in recent years by acts such as try-leading products. With AKG’s amount of time and money into
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