[NEW RELEASE] NIKE 1WORLD AF-1 - BUSY P

The newly launched Nike 1World project has been created in conjunction with select cool kids in the “sports, music, art and design fields”, presumably hand-picked for their innate panache on a global scale. The scope of 1World has been defined as 18 original shoes, which will be launched month by month via Nike's awesome AF-1 website.

Today the first three have now been revealed – from the rainbow excess of Busy P to the refelective digital camo of Gore-Texer (Nitro Microphone Underground) and finally Rasheed’s hightop with ‘Max Air’, you couldn’t find three more different AF-1s if you tried. Definitely a bright start to this project...
Just go to http://www.nikeairforce1.com and hit the 1World button - all will be revealed in due course!

 

PA systems (aka live sound) range from those that put out just a few watts like those for addressing a large boardroom to the mega systems that put out tens of thousands of watts like those that are used for mega music events in stadia.

Whatever the PA system is, the basic need that it fills is that of getting sound out to a lot more people. This should be without altering or downgrading the quality of the original sound as much as possible.

We will not talk about mega PA systems. If you intend to use them, you probably would not be reading this now. You should already be a road and time-tested pro. So, I will stick with the basics that will benefit the newbie.

A basic PA system includes an amplification unit, a speaker unit and a microphone or some mics. This is what constitutes a basic PA system. As the need to expand or have more control arises, stuff like mixers, effect processors, splitter units and so on are added.

However, the basic purpose of the PA system is to amplify sound. All other stuff that are added are secondary. If a PA system does not deliver sound to the intended audience, it has not lived up to its expectation. Period!

Now, one very important point to bear in mind is that your PA system is as good as the weakest link in your set up. That is, if you have the best of everything apart from one unit in the chain, your output will be only as good as that one unit that is less than the best. It is therefore, a good idea to make sure you do not overspend on one unit to the detriment of others.

Having said that, the most important link in the PA system is the speaker unit. This is because it determines the final sound that gets heard. If you cut corners on this one, you've compromised your output quality.

A good speaker will bring out the best in any PA system. Yes, if other units are crap, it will not give anything more than crap. However, it will deliver the best possible experience from that crap.

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