Disc Jockey News

New DTV will hurt DJ's use of wireless Microphones.

8.22.2008

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a ban on wireless microphones and other low-power auxiliary stations from operating in the 700 MHz band after the end of the digital television transition come February.

The point is to eliminate harmful interference to new public safety and commercial wireless services in the band.

Also under the proposal, manufacturing, importing, selling or shipping of devices that operate as low-power auxiliary stations in the 700 MHz Band would be prohibited after Feb. 17, 2009.

Low-power auxiliary stations are authorized for such uses as wireless mics, cue and control communications and synchronization of TV camera signals. Radio broadcasters are among those allowed to use the stations.

Of 943 active low-power auxiliary station licenses, the FCC said, 156 are authorized to operate in the 700 MHz band. Most of those are authorized to operate in other spectrum bands as well. Thirty can only operate in 614–806 MHz, which is part of the 700 MHz Band.

After the end of the DTV transition, low-power auxiliary stations would be able to continue operating in additional spectrum bands on a secondary basis, including certain broadcast television channels below 700 MHz.

The commission said it will freeze filing of new applications for low-power auxiliary station licenses that want to operate on any 700 MHz band frequencies after Feb. 17. That freeze extends to related equipment requests as well.

In its draft Notice of Proposed Rule Making, the agency seeks comment on requests made by the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition regarding the use of wireless mics. The group has alleged that some makers of wireless mics, including Shure, have violated the rules by marketing and selling equipment to the public that is limited to certain classes of users; selling equipment for purposes that violate the rules; and deceiving the public as to the requirement for a license. The coalition also has called for creation of a new General Wireless Microphone Service to help solve the problem.

The group said it was pleased the FCC took its complaint seriously and is looking into marketing practices of manufacturers of wireless mics; the FCC Enforcement Bureau has initiated such an investigation.

“As we told the commission in July, ‘In violation of FCC rules, manufacturers persuaded unauthorized users to buy expensive wireless microphones that manufacturers had no right to sell and the public has no right to use. As a result, somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million unauthorized wireless microphone systems operate on UHF Channels 52–69 — creating pools of potential interference that could undermine the reliability of these new public safety and commercial wireless systems.’”

PISC members include the CUWiN Foundation, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, EDU¬CAUSE, Free Press, the International Association of Community Wireless Networks, Media Access Project, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, the New America Foundation, the Open Source Wireless Coalition, Public Knowledge and U.S. PIRG.

“Shure intends to work closely with the FCC during this rulemaking process,” company spokesman Chris Lyons told RW in an e-mail. “We have been anticipating a change in the status of the 700 MHz band for some time. We stopped manufacturing and selling wireless microphone products in the 700 MHz range in 2007, and we have been advising users to begin migrating from the 700 MHz band to the core TV band below 698 MHz.”

Posted by Jeff Richards at 06:03 PM | Permalink

Starting on Friday you can go to the movie theatre and watch Mamma Mia and sing Karaoke with it.

Starting this weekend the Movie Mama Mia will have a special “Sing-A-Long” version where the words to the songs will be displayed at the bottom of the screen just like when you do Karaoke.

My only question is WHY?

It was bad enough to listen to ABBA songs throughout the movie, and then to have amateur singers like Meryl Streep attempt to sing them was even worse. Now you get to sit there and listen to the 500 pound guy in front of you sing “Dancing Queen”

No Thank You!

If this catches on maybe they will bring back the old movies like "Grease" in a "Sing-A-Long" version!

Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions

http://www.PartyTimeProductions.biz

Posted by Jeff Richards at 10:08 AM | Permalink

This is the wedding to end all weddings and it will be on TV. You don't want to miss it!

Saturday August 30th 2008 on the Country Music Channel (CMT) they will be showing “My Big Fat Redneck Wedding” and it will be the biggest and baddest of them all!

The host, Tom Arnold, yes-once married to Roseanne Barr (insert your own farm animal joke here) will be actually planning and hosting a wedding for a Redneck couple and he is in complete charge of the festivities.

It can’t get more Redneck then this….

Check your local listing for show times and channel number.

Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions

http://www.PartyTimeProductions.biz

Posted by Jeff Richards at 03:39 PM | Permalink

I know every DJ will exaggerate a little when you ask them about things like pricing, bookings & service but this guy was just to obvious to overlook.

I was jumping around from DJ chat site to DJ chat site to see what was happening around the world when I came across one thread where it sounded like a couple of guys with their chests puffed out and “Bragging” about themselves.

Typically I pass on by these because for the most part it’s nothing more then BS being spewed about with an “I’ve got a Bigger….then yours” aptitude.

I don’t particularly care for these threads other then sometimes it can be extremely entertaining to read.

I also have learned from reading these threads that you never want to interject any intelligent response or point out another’s complete BS because they will then jump all over you and try to harm you without any real facts or figures and then it turns into a real firestorm of name calling and hatred. That’s why I’m commenting here and not on that thread.

Back to this one thread that I found humorous. A DJ, who will remain nameless, was bragging about how good he was and that he performs about 100 weddings every year. Now I will admit I do not know this DJ, I never have met, talked to or did any real research about this DJ but when I read that he does about 100 weddings every year something just clicked in my head and I find it extremely hard to believe. (Not impossible, but hard to comprehend)

Let’s look at a one year period. Most weddings (not all) happen on the weekend.

There are 52 weekends in one year. Christmas can happen on any day of the week but the odds of it landing on a Thursday to Sunday are very good which would almost eliminate a wedding taking place on that weekend.

Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday in November which again for an intelligent couple would eliminate that weekend for a wedding. Other holidays such as New Years Eve, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day would also cause Bridal couples to select not to have their matrimony to take place around those weekends.

Now I’m guessing every DJ has a Birthday and one or more close family members with birthdays occur around the weekend. Possibly anniversaries, or other important events scheduled on a weekend.

What I’m saying is that at least two or more weekends every year have something other than a Wedding to attend. Even with that if this DJ works 50 of the 52 weekends performing at weddings that still means he has to average 2 weddings (Friday & Saturday) working someone else’s wedding event. If he works only 48 weekends then this would cause him to perform every Friday & Saturday & and an occasional off day (Sunday to Thursday)

If he works only 40 weekends a year (One weekend off per month) then he would have to work every Friday & Saturday plus twenty more off nights (Sunday to Thursday) per year.

Look at your bookings and tell the truth, are you or anyone you know (single op) booked every Friday & Saturday night for a year?

If we stick to statistics and REAL LIFE he is probably actually only doing between 30 & 50 weddings per year but with the drop in the numbers of weddings over the last few years, the extreme increase in the number of “DJs” over the same time period, I would guess that these numbers could he high.

If this DJ Charged $700 per event (this is extremely low for a wedding) x 100 weddings, he would make $70,000 in one year.

If he charged $1200 per wedding (average wedding rate) x 100 weddings, he would collect $120,000.000

Do you personally know any Single Operator Disc Jockey making 70 to 100 thousand dollars a year?

How exhausted would you be if you worked 50 weekends doing two weddings per weekend with only two weekends in one year off.?

I guess what I am trying to say is I know every DJ is a little deceiving here and there to make themselves sound better then they really are. I get that. But if you are going to fabricate some information and then post it on the World Wide Web you better be based at least a little in the real world as to not throw up a red flag and point yourself out as less then authentic.

People just won’t trust you or believe you after that.

His posting was listed as late in the afternoon/early evening on a Friday. I guess this was his one weekend off.

Two years ago I got into a real huge argument with a DJ from the East coast when he posted on several web sites and bragged in a pod cast that he charges $1500 for an event. He was talking the smack and really pushing how he makes $1500 or more per event and any DJ charging less was garbage.

I then went onto his web site and impersonated a bride to be. I filled out his "Instant Quote" questionnaire and awaited his reply for a price of a five hour wedding that was scheduled for two years into the future in his area. 2 YEARS!

The quote I got back was under $500.

So I posted his e-mail reply on the same web site where he said he makes $1500 or more per event and pointed out the huge inaccuracy in his pricing.

Needless to say he didn't answer the questions; he attacked me over and over on this site and then could only find one thing about me to attack... He didn't like the suit I was wearing in one picture on my web site.

The suit I was wearing while being presented with the "Small Business of the Year" award from my local Chamber of Commerce.

He then resorted to threatening me with a “Cease and Desist” order. He didn’t want the truth out there.

I’ve found that lying to anyone, especially to people who do what you do and know the ins and outs as well if not better than you is a very big mistake. It will always come back to bite you in the Ass!

Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions

http://www.PartyTimeProductions.biz

Posted by Jeff Richards at 07:26 PM | Permalink

For about a year now, everywhere you look it's all about the Jonas Brothers. Could they be the next Beatles or the next Hanson? mmmm bop!

I have to admit that I held out as long as I could to buying any of the Jonas Brothers music, but lately I can’t get through an event without a request for their songs.

Last August (2007) they released their first CD (self-titled) and it took off. Since then they have been popping up everywhere and singing their tunes.

This summer they were in a movie (Camp Rock) and today (August 12th 2008) they released their second CD called “A Little Bit More”

They have been on every TV show singing their hits; they are in the new Target Stores TV commercial promotions singing the Target song and out on tour with Miley Cyrus and other Nickelodeon TV stars.

They have crowds of young (VERY YOUNG) girls waiting in line for days to see them on shows like “Ellen” and “Live with Regis and Kelly” as well as standing in the harsh weather waiting for their concert tickets to go on sale.

My only question is WHEN WILL THEIR 15 MINUTES OF FAME BE OVER???????

Maybe this is just my opinion, but to me when they sing it’s like listening to Peter Brady singing “When it’s time to change”

Remember when the Brady kids where going to go on TV to win a prize for their parents for their anniversary, but days before their big break, Peters voice began changing and he wasn’t able to hit one note. His voice would suddenly crack and sound like a duck being stepped on… that’s what it sounds like to me when I hear the Jonas Brothers singing!

It’s just lucky for DJs that most of their songs are three minutes or less!

Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions

http://www.PartyTimeProductions.biz

Posted by Jeff Richards at 05:41 PM | Permalink

More sales please. I need to make more sales please!

“Jeffrey, I’m new to sales. How do I get better?”
“Jeffrey, I’ve been in sales two years. How do I get better?”
“Jeffrey, I’ve been in sales twenty years. How do I get better?”

It’s the same 3.5 answers for all three questions:
1. Put your “big picture guidelines” in front of your face and keep them there. Too many salespeople are fixed on making one sale at the end of the week, end of the month, end of the quarter, or meeting a quota. Your mind is fixed on the SMALL picture. Why? One more sale is not the answer.

MAJOR QUESTION: Why aren’t you focusing on bigger issues so that sales come to you from prospects and customers that want to buy? The bigger issues are:
• Value messages – that can impact your worth to the customer. Worth is more powerful than price.
• Impact speeches – at trade associations that establish your reputation as a knowledgeable leader and thinker.
• Top-tier networking – to get to know the people that count in your customer base, industry, and your career.
• Industry positioning – to become better known. Get involved in the associations and impact organizations of your marketplace.
• Consistent writing and publishing – a monthly article in your trade publication will raise everyone’s awareness of your ideas and capabilities.
• Personal branding – combining your words and deeds with your reputation to create the law of attraction.

2. Identify your principles for success and master them.
• Honesty, ethics, gratefulness, and being a servant are the core elements. They make you a better person; not just a better salesperson.
• Nothing takes the place of, or is more powerful than, hard work. Hard work will impact your results. Hard work makes luck.
• Stay a student by dedicating time to read and study. Here’s the lifetime formula: The more you learn, the more you earn.

3. Make certain you have a passion for what you’re doing.
• Your belief system drives your success results. Establish belief in your company, your products and services, yourself, and most important, belief that the customer is better off having purchased from you.
• Attitude and enthusiasm are at the core of your thought process and expression. Your attitude either attracts or repels – and the best part of that is: you control it.
• Identify your tolerance for risk and go to that edge. Once you identify risk, reward becomes much more predictable, and much more frequent.
• You must love what you do. If you’re in sales for the money, you’ll never find it.
• Love who you are. Loving yourself makes your self-confidence shine – and become a dominant factor in the decision-making process.

3.5 Make commitments to yourself and keep them.
• Small sales are scrutinized and micro managed. This is why sales reports are hated and falsified (not by you of course).
• Big picture achievements are up to you – no one else is watching, or cares. Your private dedication and self-commitment are the winning attributes.
• Dedication to being BEST at anything you do. There’s no place for second place in sales. It’s best or lost to best.

Take 30 minutes and read something about The Crusades. They were much more than a religious war. The Crusades were about people going after what they believed in…passionately. They did it regardless of the hardship and risk. Do you? Are you a Sales Crusader?

Sales is not a religion; it’s a way of life. It should not consume your life; rather, it should be incorporated into your life. Sales enhances life and embraces the philosophy for living it - to it's maximum potential. Doubling your income isn't pie in the sky, if you are determined and committed, and if you see the big picture. This means career objectives and achievements, not just a quota or sales plan achievements.

Can you see the big picture?
Are you dedicated to your big picture of success?
Are you shooting for success, or just a sale?

If you want a one more idea about personal achievement, go to www.gitomer.com, register if you’re a first-time visitor, and enter the words MORE SALES in the GitBit box.

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Little Red Book of Selling. President of Charlotte-based Buy Gitomer, he gives seminars, runs annual sales meetings, and conducts Internet training programs on selling and customer service at www.trainone.com. He can be reached at 704/333-1112 or e-mail to salesman@gitomer.com

© 2008 All Rights Reserved - Don't even think about reproducing this document without written
permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer • 704/333-1112

Posted by John Young at 04:48 PM | Permalink

What’s the secret of selling? Is there a secret? Tell me quick!

What does it take to become a success?
What’s the secret formula?

Here’s a question that will help you understand, and make you think…
Are you trying to sell or achieve?

Let me give you a few more thinking points:
• If you read The Secret and believe it will work for you, you will lose to someone willing to work for what they want, rather than wait for something they want.
• Achieving success is not about making your quota. Making a sale is just part of achievement.
• You set your own mental attitude and physical readiness to achieve each day.

Here’s the point: If you look at “achievement” as your objective, you will be looking, thinking, and taking action at a higher level.

Here’s my formula:
Healthy + mental peace + focus + action + “help” + love of what you do = achievement

• It helps to have a brand and a reputation. Be known for quality.
• It helps to have a visible platform. Send a weekly value message to all customers and prospects.
• It helps if you write something new and valuable to others every day to create new ideas, build your own understanding, and clarify your current thinking.
• It helps to have an audience of loyal customers who love you. Customers who will do business with you again and again, and who will refer others to you.
• It helps to have the support of others. People who help you to succeed and encourage you to win.
• It helps to have a bit of money in reserve. Money to invest in new ideas and new technology.
• It helps to have extreme self-confidence. Your personal belief system and positive attitude drives your entire success process.
• It helps to have a past history of success. Knowing you have won before, and understanding what made those wins happen, will create more winning opportunities and the knowledge to capitalize on them.

These “helps” will get you there faster – but don’t overlook the biggest help – help yourself. Each time you do something for yourself, it builds your wealth of experience, your wealth of knowledge, your valuable reputation, and your character. Even in situations where you didn’t win, you have learned what not to do next time.

The “help yourself” element is the rest of the formula:
• Healthy body. Overweight means over burdened, and many people are. Your eating choices and your exercise choices are critical to your total strength. When you combine physical strength with mental strength, it becomes achievement strength. Winning strength.
• Healthy mind. Mental peace. Worry and stress are the cause of illness and failure. They occupy the mental space that should be full of ideas and calls to action. All thoughts and thinking are choices. Choose positive.
• Focus. Your mental drive and vision to study, make plans, take action, and stay the course. It’s eye AND mind AND being AND body focused on the prize. Focus is thought based on outcome. Whether good or bad, your focus will determine your results.
• Take action. Nothing happens unless and until you decide to MAKE it happen. Action can be planned, re-action, or spontaneous. Action requires risk and risk tolerance. The more risk tolerance you have, the more action you will take. Fear of rejection prevents action.
• Love of what you do. Think about your biggest achievements. My bet is that those achievements were tied to your passion. Love of what you do is critical to achieving anything. This one element will help you double your success.

Achievement requires action. Even if you win the lottery, you had to take the action to buy a ticket. Achievement is improvement (getting from good to better), and achievement is completion (getting it done). And everyone measures it their own way.

A sale is an achievement – but so is setting an appointment, or discovering the decision maker’s name. Personal achievement.

You decide what achievement means to you. It may be making a big sale, or running a 10K in less than one hour. It may be getting a promotion at work, or buying the home of your dreams.

There’s one elusive element of achievement (especially for sales managers) that will lead to the next achievement faster, and with more certainty: celebration! I DID IT!

Celebrate (moderately) every time you achieve. Make celebration a habit, and the next achievement will follow right on its heels.

If you want a one more idea about personal achievement, go to www.gitomer.com, register if you’re a first-time visitor, and enter the words MORE SALES in the GitBit box.

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Little Red Book of Selling. President of Charlotte-based Buy Gitomer, he gives seminars, runs annual sales meetings, and conducts Internet training programs on selling and customer service at www.trainone.com. He can be reached at 704/333-1112 or e-mail to salesman@gitomer.com

© 2008 All Rights Reserved - Don't even think about reproducing this document without written
permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer • 704/333-1112

Posted by John Young at 04:45 PM | Permalink

American DJ Adds X- Scan LED, X- Color LED to New X-LED Series of 20W LED-Powered Effects

American DJ has added a scanner and a color spot to its revolutionary X-LED Series of 20W LED-powered mobile DJ/club effects. The company’s new X-Scan LED and X-Color LED produce dazzling gobo patterns and colored beams just like a traditional 250-watt lighting effect, however instead of a halogen or discharge lamp, they are powered by an energy-efficient, mega-bright 20W white LED light source.

In using an LED source as a hard edge beam, the X-Scan LED and X-Color LED join the first member of American DJ’s X-LED Series, the X-Move LED, as part of a major breakthrough in LED technology. “What’s so revolutionary about the X-Scan LED and X-Color LED is that they use an LED source the same way that lighting effects have traditionally used halogen or discharge lamps – as a ‘central lamp’ that projects colors and images,” explained Scott Davies, General Manager of the American DJ Group of Companies.

“Developing an LED source powerful enough to do this was a major breakthrough. We first implemented this technology in our X-Move LED moving head, and now we’ve expanded the series to include the X-Scan LED scanner and X-Color LED color spot. We truly believe this is the beginning of a major transformation in DJ/club effects, where you’ll see LEDs replacing conventional lamps as the light source,” said Davies.

Like the X-Move LED, the new X-Scan LED and X-Color LED each feature a single 20W white LED that shines a powerful beam through gobo wheels and/or color wheels to project razor-sharp images across floors, walls and ceilings. The effects they produce are virtually indistinguishable from what you get from conventional halogen scanners and color spots. Plus, you get better performance, increased efficiency, cooler operation, more portability and all the other great advantages of modern LED technology.

The X-Scan LED functions like a regular scanner with X/Y mirror movement. It has separate color and gobo wheels, with 8 colors plus white and 8 rotating gobos plus spot, so users can create a wide variety of exciting visuals on the dance floor. Or, they can let the scanner run according to its own eye-popping built-in programs. Other cool features include a gobo shake effect and a strobe effect in every color. With its 13° beam angle, the X-Scan LED is capable of wide, sweeping room coverage and is well suited for small clubs and rooms with low ceilings. It uses high-quality stepper motors to make smooth, fast, fluid movements.

Just as powerful an effect, the X-Color LED is a more basic, stationary color spot fixture with 8 brilliant colors plus white, strobe effect and manual focusing lens.

Options abound when it comes to controlling these two high-performance units. The 6-channel X-Scan LED and 3-channel X-Color LED are completely DMX-compatible and can be operated via a standard DMX controller. They can be run as stand-alone units while in Sound Active mode, and multiple units can be linked together Master-Slave. A 4-button menu system LED display makes them super easy to navigate. Both the X-Scan LED and X-Color LED can also be operated via American DJ’s UC3 universal remote controller, sold separately.

The X-Scan offers yet another innovation with its Pan/Tilt Inversion mode. When four units are running together Master-Slave, units 1 and 3 will automatically sync up, while units 2 and 4 move together in the opposite direction — in an exact mirror image of the other two. This effect makes it look like the scanners are “dancing” with each other and gives the appearance of a more sophisticated light show, one that would typically require DMX programming.

“With their many exciting features, 250-watt brightness, compact size and affordable price tags, both the X-Scan LED and X-Color LED are perfect for a wide range of lighting users — everyone from DJs, bands and traveling performers to nightclubs, bars and entertainment venues,” said Davies. “Their huge LEDs are bright enough to work with or without fog, which makes them great for weddings and other gigs where fog machines are taboo.”

Because their LED lamps generate very little heat, the X-Scan LED and X-Color LED can run continuously all night long with no duty cycles. Other LED advantages working in their favor include an extremely long lamp life (50,000 hours), high beam intensity and low power draw. They consume a fraction of the energy of a 250W halogen effect, saving clubs big-time on electricity and allowing more fixtures to be hooked up to a single circuit.

Both fixtures are smaller and lighter than comparable halogen and discharge effects, so they’re extremely portable. The X-Scan LED is 15”L x 7.87”W x 6”H and weighs 10 lbs. The X-Color LED measures 7.87”L x 6.7”W x 6”H and weighs just 5.3 lbs. The units come equipped with hanging brackets, so they’re ready to install right out of the box.

The MSRP of the X-Scan LED is $559.95. The MSRP of the X-Color LED is $399.95.

For more information, contact American DJ at 1-800-322-6337 or visit the company’s website at www.americandj.com Email: info@americandj.com

Posted by John Young at 04:34 PM | Permalink

Tim McGraw’s Live Your Voice Tourhas chosen the ribbon-loaded Peavey Versarray line-array system for twostages on the country-music superstar’s 2008 North American dates.

Dave Albro—a veteran live-sound engineer whose mixing credits include RayCharles, Aretha Franklin and Roy Clark—and A2 Devan Skaggs are running two separate Peavey Versarray systems for Road Dog Touring, one configured for the Frito’s® Style Sonic Stage and a second system on McGraw’s VIP Stage.

Designed to entertain audiences during pre-show festivities on the midway, the Style Sonic Stage features twin hangs of six Peavey Versarray VR112™ line-array enclosures, paired with three Versarray VR218™ subwoofers and powered by a quintet of Crest Audio® Pro 5200™ and Pro 8200™ power amps.

“The Versarray’s dual ribbon high-end gives us very high fidelity, and we’re getting throw even beyond what we need,” said Albro. “I’m only using four of the six VR112s because the top two boxes are actually throwing several hundred feet into the residential areas neighboring the venues.

“We configured a constant-curve arrangement, so the degree between each pair of boxes is the same and I can leave it set and transport the boxes just like that. It comes out in a tray of three boxes facing each other and

I hook up the first three, lift them up, add the second set, put in the three pins and fly it out. It’s very simple and quick to fly.” Tim McGraw’s VIP tent stage is a specialized venue where McGraw performs an acoustic set for a select group of fans before his main show. Albro and

Skaggs arranged a Versarray setup that is nearly identical to the Style Sonic Stage, although trimmed to a 3:1 cabinet/sub ratio and groundstacked to achieve optimum sound coverage in the intimate setting. Like the Style Sonic system, a Peavey VSX™ 26 loudspeaker manager is assigned to each line-array cluster enclosure and pre-loaded with the Versarray Project Eight System factory preset.

“After working with the Versarray system during pre-production, I knew what to expect out of the cabinets,” commented Albro. “If I find myself doing a particular EQ adjustment in a certain situation, then I’ll just build that right into the program in the VSX. Right now, the VSX units are doing crossover and some time alignment between the ribbons and the 1x12” woofer.

There’s a little bit of EQ going on in there—some parametric stuff to shape the crossover points, because the beauty of digital crossovers is that you can do all of this asymmetrical stuff and create a flatness that you couldn’t do in the old analog days.”

The Versarray 112 ribbon-driver line array utilizes a high-performance, lightweight 12” Neo Black Widow® woofer featuring a 4” voice coil with a neodymium magnet structure in a 13-ply Baltic birch enclosure. The Versarray 112 offers extreme versatility and performance in modular coverage of small- to medium-sized venues, and is intended for use with Versarray 118 or 218 subs, two vented subwoofers incorporating Peavey’s ultra-high power Lo Max® 18” woofer.

The VR218 subwoofer features the patented UniVent™ venting system, which uses an exclusive process to literally pump air through the enclosure, maintaining cool operating temperatures, increasing reliability and reducing power compression under heavy continuous-drive conditions.

Peavey’s patent-pending Ram Air Cooling™ design, a dissipation process that radiates heat away from the voice coil and speaker cone on the VR112, helps achieve enhanced efficiency and power handling, and overall improved performance over conventional cone-type transducers.

Founded in 1965, Peavey® is one of the world's largest manufacturers of musical instruments and professional sound equipment. Peavey has earned more than 180 patents and produces more than 2,000 products, which are distributed throughout the United States and to 136 other countries. Peavey and its MediaMatrix®, Architectural Acoustics®, PVDJ®, Crest Audio® and Trace Elliot® brands and affiliates can be found on concert stages and in more than 5,000 airports, stadiums, theme parks and other venues around the
world. To find out more, visit www.peavey.com.

Posted by John Young at 04:24 PM | Permalink

On Monday Night I was performing “Game Show Mania” when suddenly one of the contestants drops face first onto the stage!

I was performing “Game Show Mania” to a crowd of just over 900 people in the St. Cloud MN Civic Center. It was the first night of a three day convention of “Lunch Ladies” from all across Minnesota.

The last game of the night I do a spin off of a cross between “Deal or No Deal” and the old TV game show “Let’s Make A Deal’

I had five contestants who had won the five previous games on stage to make a Deal or No Deal to attempt to win the big grand prize for the night while possibly losing the prize they won in their previous game.

I also had five women from the audience acting as the “Super Models” holding onto the cases to select from.

One case had the grand prize in it, one case had the ZONK in it (Rubber Chicken) one case had a 2008 Escalade in it (A Match Box version of the SUV) and the other cases had prizes with a dollar value better then the value of the prizes given out earlier in the night.

I was playing the winning contestants to see who would trade their fabulous prize winnings at a chance to win the grand prize when suddenly behind me I heard a very loud THUMP! I turned around to see one of the ladies holding a case was face first on the stage.

We attended to her medical condition as the audience watched. It turns out that she had just previously given blood at the blood drive in another room and came back to the show to quickly. The very hot lights, the lack of food and the blood donation caused her to faint and fall down.

The game resumed about fifteen minutes later and all is well. The next day before leaving town to go home I stopped into the convention and found the woman who had fainted to check on how she was.

All the contestants including the “Super Models” won a gift card to a restaurant or national chain store but after she fainted in all the excitement she did not collect her prize. I delivered it to her while she was listening to a speaker giving a speech about nutrition in the school lunch programs.

This month on August 19th I will be speaking to the Midwest Association of Professional Disc Jockeys about improving their “Game Shows” to keep it fresh and exciting for all.

Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions

http://www.PartyTimeProductions.biz

Posted by Jeff Richards at 02:52 PM | Permalink