MANGOCHI, Malawi – Held at varying locations along the shore of Lake Malawi on the borders of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania since 2004, the Lake of the Stars Malawi Festival's flown-in and hand-ported audio system included a Midas PRO2C console.
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DOVER, OH – Hoping to upgrade intelligibility at the reverberant St. John's United Church of Christ, Tim Badger of Alstage Sound & Lighting was looking for an alternative to expensive acoustic treatments and the aesthetic complications of a staggered system design. His solution was to use a Bosch Vari-directional Array plus a pair of Electro-Voice EVID 4.2s for light balcony fill. Badger has since replicated that success at three more Ohio churches.
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CHICAGO – The Chicago White Sox baseball organization, based at Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field, installed Shure's PSM900 Wireless Personal Monitor and UHF-R Wireless Microphone Systems for the 2011 season, upgrading from Shure's PSM700. The new gear helped the baseball organization avoid running afoul of new FCC regulations on permissible spectrum band frequencies.
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NEW YORK – Book of Mormon took home nine of the 14 Tony Awards it had been nominated for earlier this year, including one for Best Sound Design. To optimize the sound – especially for the area where theatre critics and other VIPs are seated – sound designer Brian Ronan and production engineer Christopher Sloan used a downfill array of nine L-Acoustics dV-DOSC cabinets in a nearly horizontal orientation to overcome challenges posed by the musical's scenic elements.
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LONDON – Frankie Knuckles, David Morales and CJ Mackintosh were among the long list of DJs helping London's Ministry of Sound celebrate its 20th birthday, and they all had good things to say about the Martin Audio system, which R&D Director Jason Baird had fine-tuned in anticipation of the club's three-day celebration.
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BARCELONA – After Russ Tite, FOH engineer for The Kooks, mixed the band this past summer with Midas Heritage 3000 and XL4 consoles, he decided to stick with the Midas brand for the band's shows in Europe this fall. "We were almost going to take an XL4, but you can't really fit one on a tour like this, so I decided to try the PRO6, and it sounds incredible," Tite said.
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Countryman Associates' B2D Directional Lavalier Microphone, as small as the diameter of a No. 2 pencil lead, is well-suited for theatrical or musical sound reinforcement applications where a diminutive size is a big priority. It also offers a tight, hypercardioid polar pattern for secure isolation from ambient noise and feedback, a frequency response of 50 Hz to 18 kHz, with a 4 dB presence boost at 6 kHz for increased intelligibility without being harsh or brittle. It is available in three sensitivities / versions to accommodate a wide range of applications. The corresponding overload levels (at 1% THD) are: 120 dB SPL, 130 dB SPL and 140 dB SPL. The MSRP is $650.
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Future Sonics' mg6pro 13mm Ear Monitors® custom fit professional earphones feature dynamic speakers that are multi-driver and crossover free to help performers to hear themselves with clarity. The earphones feature MG6Pro 13mm dynamic drivers; 18Hz – 20,000Hz TrueTimber response; 34ohm impedance; and sensitivity to 112dB with +/-20db ambient noise rejection.
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Studio Six's Digital iAudioInterface2 is designed to work with all current Apple iOS products, compatible with iPhone 4, iPod touch 4, and iPad. It can serve as a companion to AudioTools, and it can also serve as a stereo audio interface for iOS apps.
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Rational Acoustics' Smaart I-O 2×2 USB audio interface is designed for use with Smaart v7 Measurement Software. The I-O features two active balanced inputs with 50 dB of computer adjustable gain in 1 dB steps. These input gains are monitored directly by Smaart, letting users retain accurate SPL calibration while varying measurement signal input levels.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Auralex Acoustics, Inc. named David Fischer as its CEO. Prior to Auralex, Fischer was executive vice president for Origins Holdings, Inc., which makes home furnishings and cabinetry, overseeing sales, marketing, product development, finance and operations for the American market.
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OLD LYME, CT – Sennheiser named Greg Beebe president of Sennheiser Electronic Corporation in U.S. and named Markus Warlitz general manager of Sennheiser Latin America, effective Jan. 1, 2012. The announcements follow on the heels of other restructuring announcements the company has made for the Americas, including the recent appointment of John Falcone as head of Sennheiser's business in the Americas.
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