by Ben Stowe, CTS - “Sound & Lighting Guru” There are so many choices we have to make. Paper or Plastic? Mac or PC? Star Wars or Star Trek?…just to name a few. The one choice that perplexes DJs to the point where many just go along with what’s popular with their peers is “Active”…
by Ben Stowe, CTS - “Sound & Lighting Guru” Bi-Amping a loudspeaker or a system in it’s simplest form is just what the name states, using two amps for the job. Typically this is used to independently control the levels and frequencies going to a particular driver within a loudspeaker. In Illustration 1 we can…
by Ben Stowe, CTS Wow! What a year we just experienced. Besides perhaps being the last full calendar year of civilization, if you believe some of the apocalyptic hype surrounding the end of the Mayan b’ak’tun (which this writer does not), 2011 was notable for many other things. On the technology front, I’d be remiss…
by Ben Stowe, CTS My last post on deciding when to purchase equipment was so much fun, I figured why not follow it with another diatribe on how much gear to purchase. I’m probably best known for my understanding of the physics and “geekery” of how equipment works, so why not shake up the establishment…
by Ben Stowe, CTS With the bevy of new products unveiled at NAMM in January, once again I get the same questions via e-mail, Facebook and chat boards. “Should I buy the…now or wait for the price to come down?” “What do you think will replace the…?” “Do you think I should get…or wait for…?”…
by Ben Stowe, CTS I think everyone who watches TV has by now seen the insurance commercial where R. Lee Ermey is featured in his typecast role of a drill sergeant, although this time also as a therapist. His patient starts the scene by saying, “… and that’s why yellow makes me sad, I think”….
by Ben Stowe, CTS On November 11th, Professor Gertrude Neumark Rothschild left us at 83 years young. Who is Gertrude and what does she mean to our industry or to us as individuals? A Professor of Science and Engineering She was a professor of science and engineering at Columbia University, and her work on semiconductors…
