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Active and passive PA speakers
These compact PA speakers are ideally suited to solo performers and duos or (in conjunction with a sub) bands playing smaller venues. Both passive and active versions are available, and each active speaker can power one further passive speaker.
Active PA speakers
RCF’s well-established ART line has become a popular and respected range of portable speakers, and the new ART 7 series introduces bang up-to-date technology and offers some significant performance improvements over older designs.
Active PA speakers
To look at these speakers, it's hard to believe they can be sold at such a low price. While there is a limit to what you can get on such a tight budget, Behringer seem to have pulled out all the stops to make sure you get as much as possible.
Active PA speakers
JBL’s EON range has proved to be one of the most successful and enduring ranges of lightweight portable loudspeakers on the market. With the launch of the next generation EON 300 and 500 series, we take a look at the flagship new speaker and sub.

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Stagecraft

Tech Notes

Live Sound Techniques

From the street to the stage
Taking rap and hip-hop to the stage is not as straightforward as it might seem, those who mix the genre tell Performing Musician.
Roland's M-400 V-Mixer in action
It was supposed to be just another live sound job in the local theatre, but turned out to be an introduction to the world of digital mixing.
Techniques & Tips
Perhaps it's not for absolute beginners, but if you're into live sound, maybe as a future career, then doing the sound for small theatre productions is a great opportunity to gain experience and develop your skills. Here, we discover what it's like to be part of a sound tech team for the small stage.
From '70s tours to FOH sound for the 2007 reunion concert
The now-famous reunion show for hard rock's patron saints, Led Zeppelin, at the O2 Arena showed that while the song remains the same, the sound gets a lot better.
Techniques & Tips
How do you prepare yourself for mixing stadium gigs? By mixing a stadium gig, of course. PM's tame FOH engineer recounts the challenge of deploying his skills in a slightly unfamiliar context.
Mixing Techniques
More complex than a typical concert and with no opportunities for studio fix-ups, mixing and designing sound for Broadway's one-of-a-kind productions is its own animal, with singular techniques, a unique business culture and its own rewards.
Techniques from the pros
There is a primitive elegance to the eternal struggle embedded in hard rock music that pits sublime intelligibility against violent, visceral volume.
Could technology that's mixing Shakira today be running your PA tomorrow?
Live sound mixers on major tours are utilising a range of new technologies that are transforming the whole nature of FOH control, but could tablet PCs and software plug-ins soon be the future of self-op PA too?

Playing Techniques