Pictures In The Park 2011

Nothing like an outdoor movie on our huge new Da-lite 22’4″ x 13′ screen.

Third Day uses our Roland Fantom X8 Keyboard at the Portland Fish Fest

Guess who’s using our Roland Fantom X8 synth for Fish Fest today? Third Day!

The Fantom X8 is a great keyboard and we were very glad to get the call. Fish Fest is this afternoon (August 20th, 2011) and it should be great.

The Roland Fantom X8 is available for rent, click here.

Video from the event:

City of Falls City Council Recording System

Some time ago we were contacted by the City of Falls City (a small city west of Salem, Oregon) for help with a system to record their City Council Meetings.

After assessing their needs we decided to go with 11 Shure SM58 microphones, a Rane AM1 & AM2 (gain sharing auto mixer), a DBX286s and a Tascam SS-R1 solid state recorder.

Let me break the system down for you:

The 11 Shure SM58 microphones feed in to a Hosa audio snake (we are an authorized Hosa dealer), the snake connects to the Rane AM1 & AM2 (we are also an authorized Rane dealer). The Rane AM1 provides four channels of audio input that is gain sharing. What this means is the mixer automatically turns on the microphone that is in use and turns down mic’s that aren’t. With the Rane AM1 we don’t need a technician sitting at the mixer when you have a number of people that are using many mics at the same time. It is similar to a system that Shure has been making for many years, but much less expensive and WAY more advanced.

The AM2 connects to the AM1 and gives us eight more channels of audio, this allows us to connect the other 7 mics.

The output of the AM1 is then connected to a DBX286s. This lets us compress the signal so that we can make the recordings sound better.

The system culminates with the Tascam SS-R1 solid state recorder. The recorder then captures the audio so that it can be archived as MP3′s. The great thing is that there are no CD’s to convert to MP3′s. Just pop the CF card into the computer, pull off the MP3 file and save it wherever you like.

We interfaced the system with the City’s existing speakers so that the audience could hear the Council better.

The system works well and is easy to break down and set up since the Council Chambers are also used as a Community Center.

Need a conference room system? Contact us.

Projectors and screens for Unified corporate event

Got Video? Yesterday we were tapped to provide projectors and screens for the Unified event at The Reserve Golf Course in Hillsboro. We used two of our 3000 lumens projectors and two 8ft screens. The venue was tough, an outdoor pavilion, lots of ambient light, windows behind the screens, just about everything that you don’t want in a venue. All in all, we were really happy with the way things looked and most importantly our client was happy.

If you need to rent a projector we can make it affordable. Contact us now.

Assistive Listening Systems

Recently we have been experimenting with assistive listening systems.

An assistive listening system consists of a base station that transmits the audio from the PA system and receivers that are worn by anyone that has difficulty hearing.

There are many different options. Everything from an old school wired setup to one of the newer wireless systems.

We evaluated many options, but settled on the Listen Tech Assistive Listening System. The heart of the system is a powerful FM transmitter that transmits the signal from your audio system to the listen receivers.

The assistive listening system gives us flexibility with many choices of receivers and earpieces. Earpieces are everything from earbuds to a set of headphones.

Our assisted listening devices are available for rent, contact us for rates.

Youtube

So the client walks up and says: ‘We didn’t get the dvd of the music video that we wanted to play in time, but it’s on youtube can we play it from there?’

Sure we can do that.

We used the venue’s wireless internet access to load the video. We ran the output of the laptop through the video switch and set the video to full screen. Using the laptop keyboard we were able to start the playback while still in full screen mode.

I wasn’t sure it would work, but it ended up working and looking great. I am not sure the audience even noticed the difference.

You can see the video here.