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Behind the Scenes at Full Compass

The History of Full Compass Systems Discover how Full Compass became one of the nation's largest professional audio, video, A/V and lighting equipment retailers. Duration: 00:06:03	Rentals: Back Stage Gain access to a wide selection of pro gear through Full Compass' Rentals Department. Duration: 00:00:58
Pro Audio, Video, A/V and Lighting Sales: Back Stage Full Compass' Sales team is comprised of experienced well trained professionals. Duration: 00:02:10	Service and Parts Department: Back Stage Get back up and running in no time with Full Compass' Service and Parts Department. Duration: 00:01:36
Systems Integration: Back Stage Get your professional software and hardware working together in harmony with Full Compass Systems Integration. Duration: 00:02:06	Quiet Speed Production Studio PC Quiet Speed custom built computers are built specifically to meet your demands. Duration: 00:00:43

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Tech Expo

Full Compass Technology Expo - Day 1, Hour 1 Check out the 1st hour of the Full Compass Technology Expo for special deals, musical performances and more! Duration: 00:50:10	Full Compass Technology Expo - Day 1, Hour 2 Tune in for the 2nd hour of the Full Compass Technology Expo. The 2nd hour includes a live interview about the history of Full Compass from Chairman Susan Lipp and CEO Jonathan Lipp. Duration: 01:07:10
Full Compass Technology Expo - Day 1, Hour 3 Watch the 3rd hour of the Full Compass Technology Expo. This hour includes a Presonus Gearcast, a Live Performance from The Young Shakespeare Players and more! Duration: 00:56:29	Full Compass Technology Expo - Day 1, Hour 4 Take a look at the 4th hour of the Full Compass Technology Expo. This hour includes a live performance from the Full Compass Trio/Quartet, a product GearCast with Blue Microphones and more! Duration: 00:53:34
Full Compass Technology Expo - Day 1, Hour 5 Check out the 5th hour of the Full Compass Technology Expo. This hour includes product GearCasts with Allen & Heath and Elation Pro Lighting; Musial Performances by Westside Andy & Glenn Davis and more. Duration: 00:56:08	Full Compass Technology Expo - Day 1, Hour 6 Tune in for hour 6 of the Full Compass Technology Expo. This hour includes GearCasts with Klark Teknik & Comely Productions, Musical Performances by Soul Shaker & Sergei Belkin and more. Duration: 01:07:35
Richard Weigel - Performance #1 Technology Expo 2009: Richard Weigel performs on stage for the Full Compass Technology Expo. Watch his spectacular 1st performance! Duration: 00:02:35	Richard Weigel - Performance #2 Technology Expo 2009: Enjoy Richard Weigel's 2nd performance for the Full Compass Tech Expo. Duration: 00:03:09
Richard Weigel - Performance #3 Technology Expo 2009: Tune in to Richard Weigel's 3rd Technology Expo performance. Duration: 00:02:31	Richard Weigel - Performance #4 Technology Expo 2009: Check out Richard Weigel's 4th musical performance for the Full Compass Technology Expo. Duration: 00:02:38
Richard Weigel - Performance #5 Technology Expo 2009: Richard Weigel performs on stage for a 5th time at the Full Compass Techology Expo. Duration: 00:02:38	Sergei Belkin - Performance #1 Technology Expo 2009: In addition to being a Full Compass employee, Sergei Belkin is a gifted accordion player. Tune in to his 1st performance and watch his fingers dance upon the accordion. Duration: 00:02:59
Sergei Belkin - Performance #2 Technology Expo 2009: Sergei Belkin takes center stage in his 2nd Accordion performance for the Full Compass Tech Expo. Duration: 00:01:28	Sergei Belkin - Performance #3 Technology Expo 2009: Tune in to Sergei Belkin's 3rd musical performance for the Full Compass Technology Expo. This marvelous accordion player is also a Full Compass employee. Duration: 00:01:43
Super Tuesday - Performance #1 Technology Expo 2009: Super Tuesday performs a live cover of Blink 182's "Say It Ain't So", at the Full Compass Technology Expo. Duration: 00:02:38	Super Tuesday - Performance #2 Technology Expo 2009: Filmed live from the Full Compass Technology Expo, Super Tuesday covers Green Day's "Know Your Enemy". Duration: 00:03:14
Super Tuesday - Performance #3 Technology Expo 2009: Tune in to Super Tuesday covering No Doubt's "I'm Just a Girl". Filmed live from the Full Compass Technology Expo. Duration: 00:03:12	Behind the Scenes of the Sound Room Check out the Gear that made the Full Compass Tech Expo possible! Kevin Peckham takes you behind the scenes of the Sound Room. Duration: 00:02:51
Behind the Scenes of the Transmission Room Kevin Peckham takes you behind the scenes of the Full Compass Tech Expo Transmission Room. See the technology involved in streaming the event live to the internet. Duration: 00:03:01	Behind the Scenes of the Video Room Discover the Gear used in the Full Compass Tech Expo Video Room. Kevin Peckham takes you up close in the Video Room. Duration: 00:02:34

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Product Demos

Soundcraft SI1 Mixer Take a look at Soundcraft's Si1 Mixer with Tom Lykins. With a wealth of input and output connections and power supply on board, the Si1 can simply drop in where an existing analogue console sat, utilising existing copper cable snakes and splitter systems. Duration: 00:03:54	Samson XP308i Portable PA The XP308i is an extremely portable PA system that weighs less than 40 pounds. Powered Mixer built right in! Duration: 00:01:53
Zoom R16 SD Multitrack Recorder Record 8 simultaneous channels to SD Card, extremely portable. Duration: 00:02:17	Zoom Q3 Mobile Video Recorder The Q3 Handy Video Recorder brings excellent audio to the camcorder, making it the best sounding video camcorder you've ever heard. Duration: 00:01:34
Samson Go Mic Gain extreme portability with Samson's Go Mic. Duration: 00:05:03	Tascam DP-008 8-track Recorder Tascam's DP-008 is an eight-track recorder that captures CD-quality audio, two tracks at a time. Export your mix, or even individual tracks, as a WAV or MP3 file. Duration: 00:04:18
Sony PCM-M10 Linear PCM Recorder Small in size but packed with features the PCM-M10 provides 96 kHz 24-bit recording with 4 GB of built in flash memory. Duration: 00:05:03	Electro-Voice Speakers Dave Sebastian from Electro-Voice explores the ZX1 speaker and SB2A subwoofer. Duration: 00:05:15
Kramer VP-728 Scaler/Switcher See the input's and outputs of Kramer's VP-728 switcher/scaler. Providing the ability to switch between 9 different inputs and take a standard definition input and scale it up to a high definition output. Duration: 00:04:02	Audio Technica 40 Series Ribbon Microphones Figure 8 patterns built to last. Audio-Technica's AT4080 & AT4081 ribbon microphones contain a micro linear implant layer on their ribbons that maintains rigidity. Duration: 00:03:42
Sony PMW-EX1 Camcorder April Albaugh takes you up close with the great features of the PMW-EX1 Camcorder, including fast and slow motion capabilities. Duration: 00:03:20	Klark Teknik SQ1S Square 1 Splitter Get 8 into 24 with the SQ1S Square 1 Splitter. Mike Sanfilipp discusses the 8 Channel Mic Pre with Midas pre-amp sound. Duration: 00:02:31
Elation Pro Lighting LED Fixtures Reduce your lighting power consumption. Rob Ludwig shines light upon the Opti-Tri-Par & Design Wash 36 Pro from Elation Pro Lighting. Duration: 00:05:08	Mipro MA-707 PA Ideal for almost any PA application, the Mipro MA-707 comes loaded with features and can be customized to best meet your PA applications. Duration: 00:03:39
Blue Microphones Jonathan vonRentzell from Blue Microphones steps you through the enCORE, Kiwi, Bottle Rocket Microphones. Duration: 00:05:02	Sennheiser G3 Wireless Eric Reese of Sennheiser discusses the Evolution G3 Wireless series sound check, frequency scanning, guitar tuning and cable emulation capabilities. Duration: 00:04:02
Heil Sound Microphones Bob Heil steps you through a tour of Heil Sounds' PR Microphones. Duration: 00:10:43	Yamaha DTXTREME III Tom Griffin demos Yamaha's DTXTREME III which boasts an outstanding sampling capability and a powerful sequencing engine. Duration: 00:05:32
Yamaha Mixers Kyle Kjensrud and Mike Eiseman take you on a tour of the Yamaha Commercial Audio Truck, complete with PM5D, M7CL and LS9 series mixers. Duration: 00:04:17	Roland TD-20SX Drum Kit Tim Root makes a full-impact impression onstage with the Roland TD-20SX and its industrial brushed-metal, enlarged V-Kick, silver colored V-Cymbals and solid rock chrome drum rack. Duration: 00:12:36
Roland Phantom G8 Workstation Keyboard The Fantom-G8 redefines the boundaries of music creation with its advanced sound engine, revolutionary ARX SuperNATURAL™ expansion bay, large-sized color LCD, and powerful new audio/MIDI sequencer. Duration: 00:10:46	Comely Productions DV Crane Easily achieve your low and high angles with the DV Crane. You can extend the DV Crane to the desired length in seconds, no more cables and pulleys. Duration: 00:04:03
PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 Mixer StudioLive seamlessly integrates a professional digital mixer with a complete multi-channel recording system and is loaded with everything needed for professional live sound production. Duration: 00:04:24	Audient Zen Console Zen is a thoroughly modern, yet classic analog mixing console combining DAW I/O integration with moving fader automation, and transport control. Duration: 00:05:08
ART M Series Microphones Steve Hendee & Kevin Peckham step through the ART M Series Microphones. Duration: 00:03:29	Neumann TLM102 Microphone The capsule design of Neumann's TLM102 cardioid microphone provides a rich bottom end with a high dynamic range, experience Neumann sound. Duration: 00:05:19
Shure SRH Series Headphones Shure's SRH240, SRH440, SRH840 headphones provide prestine sound, extreme comfort and durability. Duration: 00:03:22	Eliminate Surges with SurgeX Don't just surpress your surges, eliminate them wth SurgeX. Duration: 00:04:55
JBL CBT Series Line Array JBL's CBT100 and CBT50 fit 2-way box applications with a lot more pattern control. Duration: 00:04:00	EasyRig Camera Support Ergonomically designed, camera stabilization products Duration: 00:02:40
16x9 Camera Lenses Full zoom-through lenses for the most popular camcorder models - a great value! Duration: 00:02:09	Chrosziel Matteboxes Chrosziel's Mattebox systems provide professional shading and filtering solutions. Duration: 00:02:34
Bebob Lighting Check out the camera battery powered, Bebob Lux LED Lights. Duration: 00:05:05	Denon DNF-300 Audio Player Increase the control and security of your audio player with Denon's Solid State player, the DNF-300 Duration: 00:04:06
Extreme Isolation Headphones Lightweight, comfortable to wear headphones for musician's looking for no sound to bleed out Duration: 00:04:09	JoeCo's BBR1 Blackbox Recorder Capturing Live Performance Sound. JoeCo's BBR1 records 24 tracks to standard, off the shelf USB HDD's Duration: 00:04:07
SamePage Digital Sheet Music Systems: Part 1 Keep all of your Musicians on the Same Page with SamePage Digtal Sheet Music Systems. Duration: 00:04:10	SamePage Digital Sheet Music Systems: Part 2 Musicians can enjoy built in headphone monitoring mixing, all while on working on the SamePage. Duration: 00:04:10
SE Electronics Microphones Check out the SE/Rupert Neve's RNR1 Mic, the T2 Titanium Capsule Microphone and the 4400a Multi-Pattern Microphone. Duration: 00:03:23	Denon's RCF-400 Remote & DNF-400 Denon's new 1/2 rack Solid-State audio player, w/slick new remote controller Duration: 00:04:06
Shure Ribbon Microphones The KSM313 & KSM353 ribbon mics; built with proprietary Roswellite™ technology Duration: 00:04:01	Roland RSS M48 A personal mixing system that allows you to sweeten your monitor mix to your exact preferences Duration: 00:04:15
QSC K Series Speakers Lightweight portable powered speakers with legendary QSC amplifier power and reliability Duration: 00:04:19	Allen & Heath IDR-48 and iLive T112 Surface Kyle Kjensrud and Pat McConnell highlight Allen & Heath's IDR-48 mix rack and the iLive T112 control surface. Duration: 00:04:09

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Full Compass welcomes requests or suggestions for future show topics! Please send all requests and/or suggestions to gearcast@fullcompass.com.