Zimbel Audio Productions Articles

What it is and what it does, as well as some scenarios to show how you can benefit from it... In today’s ever-more-crowded RF environment, wireless system users need every advantage they can get to make sure their show comes off without a hit. While wireless frequency...

Common wireless system mistakes that can lead to intermodulation products that cause RF interference... One of the main causes of RF (radio frequency) interference is intermodulation products created by our own wireless equipment. In this piece, I will outline some of...

Wireless on the road. A day in the life of an RF technician for a large concert tour... It’s 9 am and I’ve just tumbled off the bus into today’s venue, a.k.a., “The Naming Rights Arena,” another stop on the five-month, 59-city Rock This Country tour by Shania Twain...

Success in working with wireless in the live world is about far more than coordinating frequencies... the other things with wireless systems. When deploying wireless, whether it’s a single system or several, and whether it’s for a tour, a one-off, a broadcast, at a...

Organizing wireless system hardware and keeping track of it at busy shows/events. So, you’ve done your scan, frequency coordination, antenna placement, walk-around and war-gaming tests, and everything works. All of your wireless transmitters are resting comfortably in...

“Why not put the mics where the people are going to end up?” Detailing a straightforward approach... When I was coming up through the ranks at a sound company in the early 1980s, I did a lot of folk festivals. Within a few years I went from mixing a small satellite...

Successfully collaborating with a wireless frequency coordinator and understanding the reasons you may need one. As the use of wireless systems continues to grow and the available wireless spectrum continues to shrink, the need for someone to coordinate all of that...

A logical approach for tracking down common wireless system and related problems. For many in pro audio, working with wireless systems is still thought to be a “nightmare” filled with peril, an accident waiting to happen, and so on. In actual fact, wireless systems...

An overview of management strategies leading to better events, inventory control, and bottom lines. In October of 1991, I left my job as a maintenance technician in a large recording studio complex for a position as senior manager of a large sound, lighting and...

More things I learned running a sound company in the 1990s Previously (LSI April 2017), I described some early adjustments made to the daily running of a sound company I worked with in the 1990s, particularly the ins-and-outs of show inventory. That article apparently...

Here’s what you need to know about broadcast RF and other "surprise guests" at events. Often when I hear reports of RF interference at a show, the description includes the line, “It just came out of nowhere!”  Actually, where it probably came from is a van or SUV with...