WEST SUSSEX, U.K. – Flare Audio, which is providing PA and monitors for the U.K. tour for drum and bass duo Nero, turned to 5 Star Cases for a casing system for Flare's Triwave i10 loudspeakers. The idea was to help the crew deploy the speakers quickly and efficiently when flown as main left and right PA arrays inside a venue.
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OLD LYME, CT – Sennheiser announced that, starting Jan. 1, 2012, John Falcone, President and CEO of Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, will be promoted to the position of vice president sales, Americas. In his new position Falcone will head business in the Americas, including the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
Read More »CASABLANCA, Morocco – dBTechnologies named Casascène distributor of its products in Morocco. Created in 1996, Casascène provides a range of sound, lighting, and AV solutions for theatres, conference centers, DJs, nightclubs and for rental and installation companies.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Masque Sound marked 75 years of providing audio support for a long roster of Broadway productions including Oklahoma, South Pacific, Grease, Phantom Of The Opera, Les Miserables, Cats, Mama Mia, Lion King and many others.
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COLLINWOOD, ON, Canada – CHS Productions' Roger Robinson cites a client list that includes St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church in Midland, First Presbyterian in Collingwood and St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in Penetanguishene. Each church has been equipped with Renkus-Heinz gear.
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VIENNA – Concept Solutions provided its L-Acoustics KARA WST modular line source system and other gear for the annual Pink Ribbon Night. The event, a fundraiser for efforts to fight breast cancer, was held at Ebreichsdorf's Magna Racino, which includes a racetrack, casino and multi-purpose hall. Raphael Rupprecht, who is Concept Solutions' technical director/sound, served as system and FOH engineer for the event.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Canada – Theatre Under the Stars presented Bye Bye Birdie and Anything Goes to summer audiences here, relying upon Countryman B3W5 (red band) microphones for audio support. Sound manager Alex Livland credited the mics, which were paired with a Shure UHF-R series wireless system, for reliability.
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KIEV – The Olympic Stadium opened here Oct. 8 with a speech by Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych, a performance by Shakira and audio support from Kiev-based Komora, which provided JBL VerTec speakers, Crown amplifiers and Soundcraft Vi4 digital live sound consoles. Komora's Harman gear played a supporting role to the sound reinforcement provided by Fotis Sound and Clair Global, with JBL VT4889 line arrays positioned to cover side seating areas.
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Symetrix's SymNet Solus 16 joins the company's Solus 4 and Solus 8, serving the needs of integrators requiring higher input counts without requiring a jump to networked DSP or separate expansion I/O devices. Like entire line of SymNet hardware, including Solus, Solus 16 is configured using open architecture SymNet Designer software. System designers have the option to use or modify Solus DSP design templates for basic projects, or to create unique designs from scratch.
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PreSonus announced version 2 of Studio One, its DAW for Mac OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion) and Windows XP/Vista/7 (and soon, Windows 8). Version 2 offers more than 100 new features and enhancements, including updated multitrack comping, multitrack MIDI editing, transient detection and editing with groove extraction and Folder Tracks. Studio One 2 also offers Melodyne pitch correction. While offering new features, PreSonus asserts that the software has remained uncluttered and easy to use.
Read More »ORLANDO – The OCA Alliance, which was formed in June 2011 to promote and develop open public standards allowing for broader interoperability of professional audio equipment, has released technical documentation to its nine founding members and 20 observing member companies.
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The d&b audiotechnik E-Series expands with lightweight two-way passive E4 and E5 loudspeakers. They use a 4" and 5" LF driver and a coaxially-mounted wide dispersion dome tweeter. Both are mounted in highly compact enclosures and offer wide symmetrical dispersion patterns in the horizontal and vertical plane, and the cabinets may be mounted in either attitude.
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