A Barking Dog

As announced in a press release earlier today Meyer Sound Labs has aquired LCS Audio (known way back when as Level Control Systems). I’m sure you all are familiar with Meyer Sound Labs but some may not be too familiar with LCS or its products. LCS is/was run by a couple of Canadian dudes in BC with US HQ in Sierra Madre, CA. They build some pretty complex DSP frames used in most Broadway and Vegas production shows in addition to installs, theme parks, etc. There is also a sort of Uber surface called Cue Console that integrates with the frames. It’s pretty impressive stuff. Think of it as a D5 meets Soundweb London, meets Media Matrix, on steriods with show control options. That’s an over simplification but thats kinda what they do. You can’t swing a truss monkey over your head in this town without hitting an LCS install. Bus bourne rock roadies aren’t likely to run across too many LCS products though they are in some major installs. I first saw it may years ago as a computer running the late great BeOS (I just donated a PowerMac 7300 that had a Be install on it) in a booth at AES. The software now runs on OS X, Linux and alas, Winders XP. You can read the details in the press release but LCS had a hand in the new Meyer Galileo, IMO one of the most impressive pieces of techology in the biz today. Or soon to be in the biz, don’t think they’ve shipped. One of my first thoughs was that it was sort of an LCS Lite for roadies. More about LCS at http://www.lcsaudio.com.

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