The opening event for Signal Southeast Electronic Music Festival started with a bang tonight in Chapel Hill in the Great Hall on the campus of UNC-ChapelHill. The legendary Derrick May was tonight's featured performer. Derrick, one of the Belleville Three from Detroit, is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music called "techno".

You will find CareySound with an exclusive assortment of Dynacord and Electro-Voice gear throughout all of the festival venues as it continues through the weekend. A complete schedule can be found by clicking here.

It was a beautiful day Tuesday for UNCG's rescheduled Earth Day Celebration an once again CareySound was there to provide the sound. The amazing Dynacord D-LITE 2000 System was the centerpiece of the system we provided along with other Dynacord and Electro-Voice gear. The D-LITE system is very sophisticated compact high performance satellite system. It is on loan to us for use on one of the venues at SignalFest in Chapel Hill this weekend and John couldn't wait to take it out for a spin.

Flanked by six F-16 fighter jets and a fly over by a B-2 stealth bomber, CareySound's newest addition to their production arsenal made it's debut performance in Lakeland, Florida at the annual Sun 'n Fun® Air Show. The week long event is host to 160,000 participants with over 3,000 volunteers and 4,000 aircraft. What began in 1975 by The Lakeland, Florida chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association has evolved into one of the premiere air shows in the United States.

In a first for the air show, a concert, featuring pilot, longtime air enthusiast and national country star Arron Tippin was held at the heart of the flight line and outdoor display aircraft area. CareySound of Greensboro provided the staging, lights, and audio for the concert.

We have added a couple of new files to the Software area in the Download section. The first is a zip file that contains the RACE/CrossMax transfer function settings for the new line of EV Phoenix loudspeakers. The second is a file from Stuart Schatz at Electro-Voice that calculates amplifier gains. It's a great help when deciding how big an amplifier you need for your new loudspeakers.

Act Three The official debut of the new Electro-Voice Phoenix Loudspeaker System will be at the opening event of Signal Festival in Chapel Hill on UNC's campus in the Great Hall Student Union, on Thursday April 26th. CareySound is the official audio sponsor of the three day festival. Click here to go to the SignalFest website for more information.

CareySound is proud to be the ONLY dealer for the Phoenix on the SouthEast Coast.

John just sent me a few great pictures from the AHA Gala setup I thought I'd share. Enjoy!

Event season is upon us and CareySound and our audio visual partner Sterling AV were busy last Friday providing production for the American Heart Associations fundraising gala held this year in Landmark Aviation's airplane hanger at the airport in Winston-Salem. The technical problems associated with providing audio reinforcement in a building built for housing planes and not for great acoustics were easily handled with our versatile Dynacord Cobra System. If not for the planes on display, gala attendees would never have known they were being entertained in a hanger.

Greensboro experienced no exception to the bad weather that plagued the east coat this weekend. We set up for the Allison King Band concert between rain outbursts and packed up several hours later in the rain with threats of tornado's without even one note being played. This concert, part of the Center Center Live events scheduled for Center City Park this week, was originally scheduled as the last concert of the 2006 MUSEP Concert Series but was postponed because of construction delays. It was shame that nobody got the hear Allison and her band yet again in the new park. Maybe next time. They would have sounded fantastic through our Cobra system.

Center City Live Series began on Saturday. The day of activities started with Grimsley High School's Blue Steel drumline, continued with the Pink Flamingos (shown above), and finished with the Nutbush Ramblers. The weather was great and the meager crowd (however small) was enthusiastic. As part of CareySound's partnering with Grassroots Productions (the event coordinators for the park) we were there providing sound for the event. A significant part of the proceeds that CareySound collects providing production at the park is returned directly to the park to help with it's operation and upkeep.

This is just the first in a week long series of events being sponsored by the park so be sure to show your support by making time to attend the remaining activities. You can find a complete schedule of events by clicking here.

Fresh from our production department a pair of Strong Xenon Super Troupers complete with stands and power supplies. All of this can be yours for $6,000.00 for the pair. The serial numbers for the followspots are 84674 and 85184 and for the power supplies 59329 and 59648. These are the followspots that all the rest are are measured against.

Update: The Spotlights have been SOLD. Watch for more upcoming items.

For when you just can't seem to get enough bass out of your system, add on our new EV MTL4 Sub System. The system package includes 2 - of the original bad boys of bass, the venerable Electro-Voice MTL-4 Manifold Bass Cabinets with four EV DL-18MT loudspeakers each and a powerful 2200 watt amplifier to power them with. (any broken glass of falling ceilings are your responsibility)

The new 2007 addition of our rental catalogue is now available for download by clicking here.

CareySound introduced professional staging to the Carolina's over 18 years ago. We offer staging and canopies for concerts, weddings and corporate events of all kinds and sizes. Please call and book your staging with us. Ask for Randy or Mike at (336) 379-1943.

First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro held a special Lenten series of music and a message every day at noon downtown in Center City Park this week. CareySound was there providing audio support.

In 1979 Electro-Voice published a tech paper called The PA Bible that was followed by nineteen yearly additions. EV was born a tech company and what could be more perfect for a tech company to create demand for tech products than to educate their dealers and customers on the technology.

Although the publication ended with the last addition in 1997, demand for reprints continue to this day and EV has officially republished them on their website. For those of you that might be new to CareySound, we have built our reputation on providing our customers answers to their technical questions, so in that tradition we have mirrored the entire series on our site for easy reference. You will find them in the Download Section under Tech Files.

One final note - even though this series began in 1979 and the references to specific equipment are dated, it would be a mistake to write these publications off as nothing more than a historical curiosity. The science contained in these pages and the clarity of their presentation is not dated. There is a good reason that the PA Bible is still legendary. Read them and improve your audio skills.

The Hispanic League of the Piedmont Triad hosted Spanish Night 2007 in the Grand Pavilion Ballroom of the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Winston-Salem Saturday night. CareySound was there with partner Sterling AV of Clemons to provide technical assistance for the event.

The event is held annually to award scholarships to excellent Hispanic students to help them continue on to higher education.

April 1st is a special day for the me. It marks my marriage to my beautiful wife Lynn and it marks the official birthday of CareySound both of which occurred in 1978. The cairn seams a fitting tribute to mark the day. You can click on the image to download a desktop image (thats wallpaper to you pc types) that was graciously provided by my son John that was taken from his website Twistedsun.net where you can find all kinds of beautiful desktops to download. (yes that was a shameless plug)

If you click on the Company Info link at the top of the page and then click the History link in the side bar you will find a huge new addition of old CareySound pictures provided by my old friend Mike Armeniox form CareySound's early years. Who knows, maybe you'll find yourself in on of those photo's.