Posts by jimmy

Smarter than your average column speaker    Something I really like about Meyer Sound is that their solutions to challenging audio problems are founded firmly in science, not marketing. Every functional design decision is made for a reason based on actual physics. CAL, or the Column Array Loudspeaker from Meyer was designed with the specific…

Proof that everything’s bigger in Texas The VL4000 is a mawkish brute of a thing, weighing over 40kg and requiring a minimum of 52 DMX channels to control. The VL4000 uses a 1200W Philips MSR Gold lamp to achieve an output of 33,000 lumens in standard mode. ‘Standard’ mode sees the 1200W lamp run at…

Portable audio testing convenience Some people get oddly enthused by test equipment – typically they’re the kind of people who rely on such equipment to make their working days easier.  dBbox 2 from CTP Systems is a test device and it’s clearly been designed with audio professionals in mind. The dBbox 2 is a fairly…

Connecting the bits… We often take for granted how multiplexing has changed the way we do things.  Now instead of running lots of analogue audio multicore, we can run a data cable.  Instead of running lots of lighting control multicore, we can run a data cable.  Instead of running a bunch of video cabling, we…

Raising the bar for LED I ran an LED lighting demo early this year – it wasn’t a shootout because I had a number of very different types of fixtures.  The Mac Quantum Profile was one of them, and because it’s been quite a busy year, I’d forgotten just how much it impressed me at…

It took all of three minutes for the entire of the CX office to reach a consensus about the RUSH Gobo Projector 1, and the consensus is that we all think it’s great.  But why? I guess it’s important to understand the function of a gobo projector – most commonly they’re used for corporate branding. …

Something different We’re sort of at a point now where LED is not only a practical and viable lightsource, but it’s starting to become the accepted norm for many applications.  Robe got onto the LED bandwagon pretty early on and their product line has matured well over time as a result.  Only a few years…

Lightweight digital with heavyweight performance I’m rather taken with the M32R.  I wasn’t too sure initially what to expect from it, but I think it’s fair to say whatever expectations I had were certainly exceeded. M32R is essentially an M32 which is rack width and includes rack rails in the box.  I’m not sure why…