Quiet Voice Audio SOUND SYSTEM EQUIPMENT CHOICES and CONSIDERATIONS
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If you walk around your room and clap your hands you'll sense how "friendly" or "unfriendly" your acoustics are. A common problem of "old school" sound installations and poor acoustic designs is the speakers being mounted too high in the room to the point where you hear the speaker within the room acoustics and not the speaker itself. This decreases articulation and introduces the greater possibility of feedback.
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Second and third are based on experience and the laws of physics. A well designed system covering all your requirements plus future expansion is paramount. The choice of speakers and their proper positioning in the room is critical in achieving accurate sound and even coverage in the room. No matter how much you invest in electronics, i.e., mixer, signal processing, equalizers, microphones, etc., you will always be listening to the characteristics of the speakers. The system will sound as good as the acoustics will allow and the choice of speakers and their positioning.
Fourth is the quality of the installation. Attention to details, understanding the workings of the components as a team and the final tuning makes the difference between a pile of mismatched equipment and a sound system.
Quiet Voice Audio SOUND SYSTEM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS
(Partial list of frequently installed equipment based on sonic performance, reliability and value)
LOUDSPEAKERS (other than the room acoustics, the choice of speakers and placement is paramount)
- FLAT PANEL AUDIO (formerly TECTONIC AUDIO LABS)
- FULCRUM ACOUSTIC
- DASAUDIO
- PRESONUS
- QSC
- TANNOY
- SONANCE
- ONE SYSTEMS
MICROPHONES (WIRED & WIRELESS)
- Shure
- Thor Hammer
- Audix
- AKG
- Heil
- Countryman
- Audio Technica
- Sennheiser
MIXING CONSOLES (SMALL TO LARGE FORMAT, ANALOG & DIGITAL)
- Allen & Heath
- Midas/Behringer
- Yamaha
- Presonus
AMPLIFIRES ANDSIGNAL PROCESSING
- LEA
- LINEA
- POWERSOFT
- Ashly
- Symetrix
- Furman
- RDL
RECORDING & PLAYBACK
- Denon
- Marantz
- Tascam
HEARING ASSIST
- Williams Sound
- Listen Technologies
CABLES, CONNECTORS, DI BOXES, STAGE BOXES, ACOUSTIC TREATMENT
- Belden
- West Penn
- CBI
- Neutrik
- ACE Stage Boxes
- dbx
- ART
- Radial
- BBE
- Whirlwind
- Guilford & Lamvin
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