text: Old School? Gay. February 17, 2014 1 Comment Michael Sam's coming out is a story. His father's reaction is a cautionary tale. Amid the cringe-inducing hilarity of all the Festival For Make Glory of All Things Putin (known as the Sochi Olympics in colloquial terms) is the story of Michael Sam. He is a gay man. He made as much known to the world last week. The obvious significance is that his talent and past performance make him a lock to be the first openly gay player in the NFL, with the expectation that he'll be drafted in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th round. A poignant underscore to his announcement is that it came during an Olympics in which the most visible issue is Russia's treatment of homosexuals under the law—treatment that the ever-eloquent cadre of Olympic snowboarders would dub "a total sicky McTwist dickface move, brah." To be fair, that's actually probably the second-most visible issue with Russia.. The most-visible issue is this horrifying glimpse of Russian wedding tradition. All kidding aside, this whole Michael Sam affair is a complete outrage against the sport of football as we know it. I am utterly shocked and dismayed at the news of this announcement. What is America coming to, anymore? What about our values? Clearly, we have lost our way. There is no excuse, in the land of our god-fearing founding fathers, for this kind of moral indecency. I'll never understand how this is being treated as a great thing. Seriously…how is anyone okay with the SEC Defensive Player of the Year being projected to go IN THE FIFTH ****ING ROUND? What the hell kind of world are we living in? Perhaps the real story here isn't the outlandish draft projections, or the fact that Michael Sam might fall in love with a man someday, or the fact that he had the moral courage to throw his cards on the table from the get-go. The real story is the cautionary tale of Michael Sam the elder, father of Mizzou's defensive prodigy. According to the NY Times, Mr. Sam didn't take the news so well. "Last Tuesday, Michael Sam Sr. was at a Denny's near his home outside Dallas to celebrate his birthday when his son sent him a text message. 'Dad, I'm gay,' he wrote. The party stopped cold. "I couldn't eat no more, so I went to Applebee's to have drinks," Sam Sr. said. "I don't want my grandkids raised in that kind of environment. "I'm old school," he added. "I'm a man-and-a-woman type of guy." As evidence, he pointed out that he had taken an older son to Mexico to lose his virginity." Hold the Moons Over My-Hammy, boss. First off, a bit of background about Mr. Sam Sr.: He's a long-haul trucker who was essentially absent from his children's lives. To date, two of his four children are in jail and Michael Sam has said more than once that his family life was essentially non-existent—a fact which drove him to seek the comfort and support of sports teams. Apparently, the elder Sam's lack of involvement in the time-honored act of "fatherhood" hasn't stopped him from forming some rather bold opinions about the future of his son and young Michael's horrifying desire to find love with another consenting adult who happens to share the same bodily fixtures. Mr. Sam is, by his own admission, as "old school" kind of guy. Aside from being one of the most vapid and overused pop culture phrases, the "old school" concept is a dangerous stance to adopt in this instance. "Old school" as an ethos is encompassing of a lot of beliefs, norms and mores. Old school idolizes such wholesome concepts as marriage meaning the union of one man and one woman…and not letting that woman vote…and not letting black people eat at Denny's…and capping the number of black and Jews who could attend universities…and owning human beings. "Old school" is actually a pretty shitty ethos, when you get right down to it. Of course, it's different when we're talking about race versus sexuality. People don't choose to black. They don't choose to be Jews. They don't choose to be women. Gay, however, is clearly a choice. This is America, after all, where two things are certain: fat is genetic and gay is a choice. Just ask your garden variety Republican Presidential candidate. In this complex world of ours, invoking the past is a piss-poor argument for almost anything—at least when it's invoked to justify a view of "well…because it's always been that way!" There was a first for everything, whether it was the first caveman to decide his mastodon tasted better well done than au natural, or the first woman to decide that "cowgirl" could ridden reverse. If you've tried either, you can't argue the improvement. Human beings have been breaking down archaic, artificial barriers built on our supposed differences since the dawn of time. Jesus thumbed his nose at the Pharisees. Peter The Great whipped the Russian serfs into shape. Knute Rockne decided to throw the football. Things change, Mr. Sam. Your son is just the latest in a long line of people to stand up and say "I'm different." Your biggest concern should be making up for lost time and standing beside your son, beaming with pride that, by all accounts, he turned out to be a fine young man. But instead… "[Mr. Sam] expressed discomfort at the very idea of a gay N.F.L. player, even if the player was his son. He grumbled that Deacon Jones, the Hall of Fame defensive end renowned for his toughness, "is turning over in his grave." " Take a gander at the NFL, Michael. The National Football League is literally chock full of drug abusers, woman-beaters, and drunk drivers. The biggest defensive star of the last decade was involved in a gory late-night murder and coverup and then sold his accomplices up the river for his freedom. Roger Goodell made sure to go out of his way to pay homage to the upstanding Mr. Lewis at his retirement. That's the league that isn't sure it's ready for a law-abiding gay man—a man who happens to be your son. What would Deacon Jones think of your gay son, Mr. Sam? Are you referring to the Deacon Jones who grew up in the rural south in a four-room house with 7 siblings? The Deacon Jones who had his scholarship revoked at South Carolina State for taking part in a civil rights protest? The Deacon Jones who slept alongside his black teammates on cots in the opposing teams' gyms because motels would often not take them? That Deacon Jones? I think he'd see in your son a man fighting the same battles against prejudice that he fought. He'd tell your son he's proud of him, and that he's a second-round pick at worst. Get with the times, Mr. Sam. This is your son. Disclaimer: Mr. Sam has recently declared he was "terribly misquoted" by the New York Times. You may judge for yourself. Share this:ShareEmailPrintComments comments


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Whenever I have some time left at the moment, I spend it on SONAR+, die Unity powered version of SONAR still under development. When I began to work on that project, I thought porting the old version of SONAR to a new engine would not a big deal. Man, I was wrong...
It's not only the different design philosophies the guys of Unity chose that made many workarounds necessary, but the really quirky memory system of that engine that nearly totally frustrated me. When I started my compiled test version of the game, the memory usage just became bigger and bigger and the game wouldn't quit properly. Today I finally got my head around that bug and found the memory leak in a few lines of code that changed the textures of the destructable walls (those dots on the wall you probably remember). All I had to do was to copy these lines into the Start-method of the MonoBehavior and the bug basically was fixed.
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Everyone seems to get these days that storytelling is important, because we're awash in data and information and can't remember it all. But we do remember stories.
They're even more important than that. They are how our brains work. For example, they are why we all feel that it's safer to drive than fly, even though the statistics prove the opposite. We remember the horrifying stories of plane crashes, and forget the stats. That's because we attach emotions to events to create stories – and memories. Our brains are constructed that way. So storytelling is essential if you want to use the brain the way it's meant to be used. We remember the emotional, the particular, and the violent especially. We forget the boring, the general, and the anodyne.
Connecting with another human being is one of the highest forms of social being for us humans. At the heart of it is good storytelling. When I'm telling you a story, and you're engaged in it, you match your brain waves to mine. And in fact, if I'm telling you a story with a familiar structure, your brain actually anticipates what I'm going to say next. The point is that that's good for both parties. We want to be in sync with other people. It's how we communicate well with others and it's why good storytelling is so powerful. That feeling of synchronization is a profoundly satisfying one. We want to hear stories, especially ones where we can guess what's going to happen next, a split second before we're told.
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Rapport is magical and greatly beneficial (not to say indispensalbe) for relationships. Good storytelling is a fantastic tool to achieve this rapport with others…
Great insights!
Thanks for this Nick. Storytelling is, indeed, very in fashion these days. But for good reason, because it's something that we are all, as social and interconnected human beings, already so familiar with. Storytelling is in our nature.
In addition to establishing a great rapport with your audience, storytelling has a way of disarming your audience and lowering their defenses, breaking down hard barriers of skepticism or cynicism to connect with them on a deeper, personal level. When that connection is made, from one human being to another, your audience will be much more likely to trust you and, therefore listen to what you have to tell them.
I wrote a blog post on this several months ago, taking some lessons from Abraham Lincoln. Enjoy.
Storytelling is so important in so many fields because it causes a connection between you and your client. It makes the relationship personal. In many ways your blog post reminds me of the technique many preachers use. They tend to start each sermon with a story. The better the story and how it relates to the sermon topic, the better the connection with the congregation. It makes sense to me.


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Rehearsals started on Monday, September 15. Everyone came in with instruments: Joe had already set up his drums, and the film had rented a B3 and Leslie for Bernie. Rick the Bass Player had one of his Laklands, Rick Springfield had his Gibson SG, and Meryl had a Fender Telecaster. We had backup instruments, as well, and Danelectro sent us a couple of guitars (more on those later).
Neil, Mark, and I made several trips to the 14th St. Guitar Center to get pedals for Rick Springfield's setup, and Line 6 sent us a guitar wireless system for Meryl. The premise is that Ricki (Meryl) is trying for stardom and is currently slugging it out in clubs in the San Fernando Valley, playing every Tuesday night at the Salt Well.
Gary Goetzman is the producer of the film, and he led the rehearsals, with assistance from Neil and Mark.
We started with a basic line check; the kick drum was miked with an ATM 250. All the other drums were triggered. Joe has triggers built into his custom Drum Workshop kit, and we just plugged out of the trigger module into my Radial DI boxes. We needed to make sure we had signal; one great thing about recording with PreSonus® Capture™ is that the send is pre-fader, so the fader position on the StudioLive AI console is irrelevant; the recording software uses the input gain level you set on the head amp actuators (trim knobs). It's a really nifty design because it allows the house mixer to change the fader levels for the live house mix without affecting the recording.
Along the same lines, once we had the guitar amp levels where we wanted them with the Radial JDX boxes, we also took a "clean" feed, plugging the guitars directly into my Radial ProDI boxes before the amplifier, in case Neil and Mark wanted to "re-amp" the guitars during mixdown.
A quick aside: I'll bring it up again later but I want to stress that Gary and director Jonathan Demme wanted authenticity, and they got it. Every note you hear is what was played by the musicians; there are no overdubs of instruments in this movie. There were a few extra band takes for vocals because of bleed but all of what you experience in the movie is Ricki and the Flash performing as you watch.
It was a treat to watch these professionals at work. Gary took five people who had never played together in this configuration and turned them into a band. Each song got a workout. Gary kept the band focused; they worked on one song at a time until they felt they had it down. From where I sat, it really paid off; by the end of rehearsals, I felt like I was mixing a band, not a loose knit group of musicians jamming, but a real, tight band.
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Ricki and the Flash Rocks with PreSonus, Part 4
August 31,2015
When we started rehearsals for Ricki and the Flash, we discovered that some things had to be changed. Part of what we faced was the reality of working with musicians who were used to the big stage in a club environment.
A brief review of our cast:
Drums and backing vocals: Joe Vitale. Joe has drummed for, among others, Joe Walsh (he co-wrote "Rocky Mountain Way" with Joe); Stills-Young Band; The Eagles; Crosby, Stills and Nash; and the re-formed Buffalo Springfield. Joe has written a book about his life as a musician called Backstage Pass.
Bass: Rick Rosas, aka Rick The Bass Player. Rick played most recently with Neil Young in Crazy Horse. He was also part of the Buffalo Springfield reunion. Rick passed away a few weeks after finishing the band scenes, and we miss him very much.
Keys: Bernie Worrell. Bernie was a member of Parliament/Funkadelic and joined Talking Heads for a number of albums. He's in Jonathan Demme's concert classic film Stop Making Sense and has played on countless sessions with artists as diverse as Keith Richards, Jack Bruce, Dee Lite, and Bootsy's Rubber Band.
Lead guitar and backing vocals: Rick Springfield. Rick has been on the big stage since the late 1960s, first with Zoot, and then as a solo artist. For a time, Rick starred in the soap opera General Hospital, and he has many hit records, including "Speak to the Sky," "Jessie's Girl," and "I've Done Everything for You."
Rhythm guitar and lead vocals: Meryl Streep. One of the most well regarded actresses in the world, Meryl learned to play guitar for this movie. Meryl had never played in a band before but she has sung in many films, including Mama Mia and the recent Into the Woods, so she adapted quickly to the role of Ricki.
I have been "pushing faders" as a front-of-house (and sometimes monitor) engineer since 1979. I've mixed in wretched bars with "thrift-store" PA systems, and I've mixed bands at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. My background is live sound; working on a movie required some adjustment in my approach to mixing.
Music coordinator Mark Wolfson and Neil Citron, the music wrangler, have worked together for many years. Among other projects, they worked on the film That Thing You Do (also with Ricki director Jonathan Demme and producer Gary Goetzman). On this film, I worked with Mark and Neil to create an authentic club band feel.
One thing that we encountered from the get-go was a reluctance to show microphones on camera. This created some interesting challenges, as we had to find a way to capture the sound without showing any microphones beyond the vocal mics. Some solutions were simple: We could take a DI off of the bass, and we used triggers on the drums and then used drum samples that we sampled from Joe's Drum Workshop kit. We hid the hi-hat and overhead mics as best we could.
Thanks to Audio-Technica, we had excellent condensers: an ATM 450 on the hi-hat and an ATM 4050 on the overheads. We were able to hide the ATM 650 dynamic on the Leslie high side and the ATM 250 dynamic on the Leslie low side.
The guitar amps presented a problem, though. We needed to capture an authentic sound without showing mics. Trying to mic the back of the amps proved unwieldy at best. It also didn't sound so great.
Neil and I put our heads together and decided to call our friend Peter Janis at Radial Engineering. Peter sent us two JDX active speaker-simulator direct boxes. We were able to plug out of Meryl's Fender 65 Deluxe reissue and Rick's Fender Bassman 410. The Bassman reissue proved tricky because the speaker output has an RCA connector; we had to make two ¼"-to-RCA custom connectors. At the time, the JDX required an external supply, as well; now it's available with the option to run on 48V phantom power.
We also used two of the new Audio-Technica AT 4080 active ribbon mics for room/ambience miking. These mics sound glorious, and they really helped Neil and Mark re-create the room sound when they did the mixing later.
With the system tuned, we were ready to watch five musician/actors become a band.
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Ricki and the Flash Rocks with PreSonus, Part 3
August 8,2015
All of the inputs were routed into a StudioLive™ 32.4.2AI console. Besides doing the live mix, the other half of my job was to ensure that every note was "Captured" during both rehearsals and filming.
Here's how we did it:
Neil Citron, Mark Wolfson, and I wired the stage and then set up two recording systems. The first was set up on my MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X 10.8.5 and connected to the console using FireWire. I was running Universal Control-AI (with Virtual StudioLive-AI control software) and recording with Capture 2.0.
We connected the DB25 outputs of the 32.4.2AI to a Tascam X48 recorder because we needed to track SMPTE time code. This way, we also had two copies of each recording; as anyone who has ever lost a file knows, you need to back up, back up, back up.
The great thing about recording with Capture™ is it is literally effortless. Once my FireWire connection was secure and I knew the computer and console were talking to each other, all I had to do was open Capture and make one mouse click, and we were rolling! Of course, it helps to have the drive path set and the files named. I find that, given the option, it helps to set this up in advance, although the only really crucial setting is the file path.
We noticed that, according to the X48's meters, the DB25 analog output was 6 dB lower than the digital signal coming into Capture. I'm not sure why the levels were different but comparing the WAV files in Studio One confirmed the difference.
Jeff Pullman, C.A.S, was the Production Sound mixer for the film and was a pleasure to work with. He also was very helpful in getting some sound isolation products so we could have a cleaner recording.
We did some test tracks with Neil playing so we could make sure the rig was running; then we started rehearsals.
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Ricki and the Flash Rocks with PreSonus, Part 2
August 7,2015
The five musicians that make up the band Ricki and the Flash are all top shelf players. Their credits are the stuff of legends; you hear them on the radio every day. Of the five, only bass player Rick Rosas and drummer Joe Vitale had played together before, as the rhythm section of the reunion tour for the legendary Buffalo Springfield (no relation to Rick Springfield).
Bernie Worrell is a visionary funk keyboardist and a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. His credits include Parliament/Funkadelic and Talking Heads. Rick Springfield is a fantastic guitarist who also played Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital.
Meryl Streep, of course, is one of the most renowned actresses in the world.
To get them to be Ricki and the Flash, we set up in the World Famous Rodeo Bar in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan. The Rodeo Bar is a long, narrow room with a brick wall behind the band. We were in a small space, and they were very LOUD.
We set up the band in an authentic club configuration and laid out the monitors for them. We used three StudioLive™ 312AI cabinets for the vocalists and keyboard position and a StudioLive 315AI for the drum wedge.
When we first set up the wedges, we decided to just use them in the standard DSP configuration. The speakers use Dave Gunness' TQ™ (Temporal Equalization) settings to correct for the acoustical issues that arise in a coaxial design. In addition, each box has DSP settings designed to assist the user in different acoustic situations. There are four settings on the back of the speaker, accessed by a small button. The settings are: Normal (full range for front-of-house), LBR Source (for low-bit-rate digital audio, such as MP3 playback), Floor Monitor (for stage wedge), and a custom User preset.
Neil Citron is a long-time studio engineer, guitarist, and all around great guy. He ran the Mothership for Steve Vai for 15 years and is a member of the Sapphire Group, a bunch of audiophiles in Los Angeles. Neil has incredible ears and was brought in to teach Meryl guitar, be the music director, and record the performances.
Neil and I set up the wedges, supervised by Mark Wolfson, and we ran some program material through them. We really liked the sound of the default Normal setting, so we left it. As soon as the band showed up, we quickly realized that the stage mix just wasn't "there." A quick button-push, and the boxes were in Stage Monitor mode; they sat perfectly in the mix, with no additional EQ required.
We used one StudioLive 312AI plus one StudioLive 18sAI subwoofer per side of the "house" PA. We put the top boxes on using the SP1BK subwoofer pole; this also allowed us to steer the top box to reduce reflections off of the brick walls.
Thanks to Brad Graham, Rapco generously provided us with microphone cable and snakes to wire the stage. We wired the guitars using Radial JDX DIs to get the sound of the amplifier, not the guitar. We used Radial JDIs on the bass and keys. Thanks to Roxanne Ricks of Audio-Technica, we had A-T mics on the Leslie and hi-hat. We also used the fantastic A-T ribbons for ambient room miking. We had triggers on the drum kit; more about that later.
Here were the basic challenges:
- Make sure the musicians can hear each other and the singers can hear their voices.
- Make sure the levels into the recordings were right.
- Get a good balanced mix for the audience.
- Make it feel like a real show, which it was.
I'll get into the recording aspect in the next part.
I need to give major props to Gary Goetzman, the producer, who took five musicians who had not played together before (with the exception of the rhythm section) and turned them into a real band in two weeks. Everyone was at the top of their game, and the professionalism of the band and producer really shone through.
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Ricki and the Flash Rocks with PreSonus, Part 1
August 6,2015
Hello everyone, I'm Phil Garfinkel, the Special Projects Liaison for PreSonus® Audio Electronics. I'm writing about the shooting of a new movie, Ricki and the Flash, discussing the PreSonus products that we used and how we used them.
First, a little about the film: Ricki and the Flash stars Meryl Streep as Ricki, an aspiring rock star who leaves the Midwest to "make it" in California. Her band, The Flash, features the talents of Rick Springfield on guitar, Bernie Worrell on keyboards, Joe Vitale on drums, and Rick Rosas on bass.
We set up the band in an authentic club configuration, with plenty of PreSonus equipment to reinforce their sound. We recorded with Capture™ and used Studio One® to create reference recordings. I was on site as the PreSonus tech, mixing the live show.
Here is a quick overview of what we used from PreSonus:
- StudioLive™ 32.4.2AI mixer
- StudioLive 312 AI speakers for mid-high PA and vocal monitors
- StudioLive 315AI speaker for drum monitor
- ADL 600 tube preamp for vocal processing
- HP4 headphone amp for headphone monitoring
- Sceptre™ S8 reference monitors for playback/mixing
- Universal Control-AI software (includes Virtual StudioLive-AI)
- Capture recording software
- Studio One Professional DAW software
The movie is directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by Gary Goetzman and Marc Platt, all Oscar winning veterans. Jonathan and Gary wanted the band to play, not just pretend to play along to tracks; I was brought in to mix front-of-house and monitors and to take a 32-track feed to capture the music as it happened.
We faced some unusual challenges. Thanks to teamwork and a mutual obsession for excellence (and some pretty great gear), Mark, Neil, and I worked through it to help Jonathan and Gary make an excellent soundtrack for the film.
Special thanks to Roxanne Ricks at Audio-Technica for helping us get high quality microphones and wireless systems, Peter Janis at Radial Engineering for getting us some fantastic Direct Boxes, and Brad Graham at Rapco-Horizon for helping with cable needs.
Thanks also to my cohorts in audio-land, Mark Wolfson and Neil Citron, who led the charge for this journey. Also Jeff Pullman, C.A.S, the film's Production Sound Mixer, who worked with us.
Ricky and the Flash opens in theaters everywhere on August 7.
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Introducing the StudioLive Production Suite—StudioLive AI Console Mixers Plus Studio One 3 Professional
July 31,2015
From August 1 through October 31, 2015, customers who buy any StudioLive AI console mixer will also get automatically upgraded to Studio One 3 Professional. If you're looking for a professional studio solution (even in your very own home), this is the way to go.
StudioLive AI Mixers make a great choice for studio production work for 3 reasons: great sound, flexibility, and software integration.
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The StudioLive AI mixers and Studio One 3 play very nicely together. In fact, any settings you make in the StudioLive's Fat Channel during recording are non-destructive—these settings can be imported into your Studio One session for additional tweaking during your mix process. Furthermore, StudioOne includes template configurations for all of our mixers and interfaces, so once you've connected the StudioLive to your computer and fired up Studio One, you've only got to make about two clicks before you're recording. Smart stuff!
With all the additional effects, instruments, editing and Sound Design capabilities (like parallel processing FX chains) that come with the auto upgrade to Studio One 3 Professional. The StudioLive Production Suite is the ultimate solution for your recording studio (while still an incredible solution for live sound production and recording).
This offer is available worldwide. Just get yourself a StudioLive AI before October 31 2015, and you'll receive a download link for Studio One 3 Professional in your my.presonus.com account when you register your mixer.
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Our recent StudioLive AI rebates on the 24.4.2AI and 32.4.2AI were so popular that we decided not only to lower the prices for good. How much lower is this new price, you ask? We've cut $300 off the cost of the StudioLive 24.4.2AI and a whopping $500 off the StudioLive 32.4.2AI.
The StudioLive 24.4.2AI just won a prestigious MIPA award, and several publications have been singing its praises of late. And don't forget, if you already have a StudioLive AI Console mixer, with a simple FireWire cable you can cascade a second AI console to create 32, 48, or 64-channel mix systems.
I think it's safe to say that there's never been a better time to get a StudioLive AI console mixer, as we're also currently offering a FREE PRM-1 Microphone with purchase of any StudioLive AI mixer (Console or Rackmount) that will allow you to fully take advantage of Rational Acoustics' SMAART Measurement Technology, and you also get Studio One 3 Artist and Capture included with your shiny new mixer.
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The StudioLive 24.4.2AI just won a prestigious MIPA award, and several publications have been singing its praises of late. And don't forget, if you already have a StudioLive AI Console mixer, with a simple FireWire cable you can cascade a second AI console to create 32, 48, or 64-channel mix systems.
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Great news! Rational Acoustics' SMAART is now included with StudioLive AI consoles and will be coming to RM-series mixers via a free update to Universal Control coming later this month. To celebrate, we've decided to give away a free PreSonus PRM-1 measurement microphone. All you have to do is buy any StudioLive AI console or RM-series mixer between June 1, 2015 and July 31, 2015, send us the proof of purchase and fill out the little form linked below, and we'll hook you up with the PRM-1, a $99 value. This offer is available worldwide.
In case you didn't know, SMAART is a technology that allows a StudioLive user to measure acoustic properties of a room that may be troublesome during a live performance and compensate for them—before the show has even started. For example, some boxy rooms can be responsible for a boomy, indistinct low end during concerts. A little bit of preventative SMAART will keep this from happening. You're also able to notch out feedback, phase-align speakers, and much more.
So, what's so great about the PRM-1? Well, for starters, it's the optimal microphone to use for room measurement with SMAART, as it boasts a flat frequency response and narrow dynamic range. As such, the PRM-1 is not recommend for traditional studio recording, but this makes the PRM-1 shine as an analytic tool, as it's optimized to respond accurately to test signals like pink noise. (Joe Meek fans are still welcome to go nuts with it.) Just shoot a room with test noise, while the PRM-1 is listening. SMAART compares the noise coming in from the PRM-1 and compares it to the original noise waveform. Discrepancies between the two are artifacts of the room's acoustics—which can then be used by SMAART to make EQ and alignment tweaks.
Pair the PRM-1 with the StudioLive AI Mixers and SMAART. You'll be able to achieve wondrous feats of techno-wizardry in the venues where your work. And it will sound so good, you might even drum up some repeat business.
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