Rick Naqvi of PreSonus continues with a demonstration of how you can use your PreSonus StudioLive mixer to do a sound check even when your musicians have left the building! Video Transcript [♪♫♪♫............Music Playing] “The StudioLive and Capture allow you to do something very, very cool, that is, to do a virtual sound check. So, even though the band went to Starbucks I’m going to be able to play those tracks right back through the mixer. But before I do that let me just talk about Virtual Sound Check. I think that this is something that is really tough for a lot of guys that mix in church and do sound checks in general. The reason is that, you show up on a Sunday morning you’re working out bugs in the system, maybe there was a wedding on the Saturday before, stuff’s not patched…There’s a buzz in the PA… Some [...]

Ron has a knack for focusing on the best qualities of any new piece of gear he reviews. Discover the unique qualities in this personal monitor that make it a real stand-out product!Join Ron Simonson, CEO of CCI Solutions, as he gives a great overview of the new Allen & Heath ME-1 Personal Monitor Mixer. Check out how the ME-1 auto-labels all of the channels straight from the mixing board. You’ll also love the fact that you can save all of your settings on a USB stick and take it with you. This lets you easily share settings from one ME-1 to another. All this in a solidly constructed, very sleek package that mounts neatly on a mic stand.    

Great News! For those of you who attempted to access our website this week, we are back up and running.Our website was down from Tuesday through Thursday of this week due to a little known limitation of the back end database.  We exceeded the 2 billion transaction limit!  Who knew? When we exceeded the limit, the back end database simply “blew up” and stopped working.  We have restarted the database and transferred all of the data from our secure IBM servers, so the website is up and running.  For our customers who have previously created an account, your account information will be loaded into the website this weekend.  The next time you need to access your account, simply enter your email address and you will be prompted for a new password since we do not keep your password information in our backend servers.  Thanks for your patience and here’s to [...]

In Segment 5, you’ll learn how to perform a “Virtual Sound Check” using the PreSonus StudioLive and Capture™ Software! Video Transcript “[continued from Part 4], I’m going to go ahead and record the soundcheck using Capture. What’s “Capture?” Capture is really designed to be the most easy recording application ever invented and it’s specifically for live recording and being able to record live recordings very easily.  Now the cool thing about Capture is it integrates perfectly with the StudioLive mixer. There’s no set up. As soon as I launch Capture, I don’t have to configure anything. It automatically sees my StudioLive mixer. It creates the correct amount of tracks. It assigns them to the correct audio stream. I don’t have to patch. I don’t have to do anything. So basically, it’s literally this easy. So, as you can see on my screen,  I’ve got Capture loaded up. I just hit “Create [...]

Pacific Media Associates Dealer Poll Rates Hitachi As the Number-One Projector Brand for the Professional MarketCHULA VISTA, California, February 4, 2013 — Hitachi America, Ltd., Digital Media Division, Business Solutions Group today announced that Hitachi has been named the top-rated projector brand for dealers serving the professional market in a survey conducted by Pacific Media Associates (PMA). Hitachi earned the number-one ranking based on its overall composite rating in the 15th survey of North American projector dealers conducted by PMA, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors. The survey took place in November and December 2012 and asked dealers to rate 21 aspects of marketing support, product attributes and after-sale support. Quality and reliability were rated to be the most important factors for dealers when choosing a projector manufacturer. “We are incredibly proud to be recognized as the top projector brand in the professional market by PMA’s survey,” said [...]