Full Compass: GEARCAST

Ron Gallo and his trio from Nashville via Philadelphia are one of the bands featured for the Emerging Artists Series at Summerfest this year. I interviewed Ron Gallo to talk about his first time at Summerfest and In Milwaukee for that matter. I open the piece with a snippet from his single "Kill the Medicine Man" from his upcoming full album titled "Heavy Meta." Check out more about Ron Gallo at http://rongallomusic.com/ and more on the Summerfest Emerging Artists Series at http://summerfest.com/eas-2016/

Check out the Full Compass Summerfest page: http://fcsys.co/291TXXV

AJA Video Systems shows off their new Helo System which is a stand-alone H.264 streaming, encoding and recording. We heard a bit about it earlier this year and now at Infocomm16 we are getting a better look. AJA experts say enterprise customers can expect to see this available sometime this Summer.

Check out more info at https://www.aja.com/ or fullcompass.com

Shure announced their new fix to help with the wireless spectrum problems that performance spaces, corporations, schools and houses of worship are having with the announcement of the ULX-D & QLX-D Digital Wireless Systems. Corey Peoples, product specialist with Shure, spoke to Full Compass about this new solution at Infocomm 2016

Kevin Peckham, Training and Special Projects expert from Full Compass joins in the conversation about what people can do in the crowded wireless microphone space right now. Kevin is presenting his findings at the WFX Reach conferences on May 16 in Raleigh, NC and May 19 in San Antonio, TX. In this episode we discuss the problems with the crowded wireless microphone spectrum and why you should be concerned, but don't panic just yet.

Chat with Joel Garza with Bormann Marketing to discuss how to bring in high-end gear into your studio by integrating different equipment (both high and mid-range price) to build a studio to be proud of.

Interviews from the Madison Area Music Association (MAMA)Breakthrough Artist 2016 competition held at Full Compass. Learning more about the health of the Madison music scene as well as advice for younger people who are thinking about following their musical passions. Full Compass is a proud supporter of MAMA and encouraging musical education to all kids.

MAMA site: http://themamas.org/

Discussion with RØDE Microphones and the VideoMicro and VideoMic Me small format cardioid condenser microphone for the mobile recording crowd. The VideoMicro for iPhone/iPad users and the VideoMic Me for the Android OS users.

And we expand our conversation into the use of boom poles for the "one man band" production crew.

For more RODE product info, check the RODE page on Full Compass: http://www.fullcompass.com/brand/ROD.html

Interview with Alan Hassen with Panasonic discussing laser projection technology advancements. Following up on their wildly successful 6500 lm laser projector, they are releasing a smaller version, the 5000 lm laser projector in March of 2016. Alan also demos the LFB70 Professional Display which features live annotation via multi-touch technology, built-in networking and file-sharing capabilities. For more info on these products, check out these links:

Panasonic 6500 lm Laser Projector: http://fcsys.co/1QMwS6C

Panasonic LFB70 Multi-Touch Screen: http://fcsys.co/1PUyag5

Radial Engineering introduced a new Direct Box into the world at NAMM 2016. It's the BT-PRO DI Box. According to Jay Porter, product specialist with Radial, this box makes it easier to connect and you won't be tethered to the console because of the bluetooth capabilities. You can even adjust speaker levels from your smartphone.

Radial Engineering: http://www.radialeng.com/

Telefunken mic pro, Ian Cluggish announces a new step in drum microphones for his company. They are launching the DC-6 and DC-7 drum mic packages.

More product info here: http://goo.gl/6lxRyB