CHICAGO — Fantabuloso ‘Dos’ 2011 took place in mid-May at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, and Gand Concert Sound (GCS) once again provided audio system support that included a NEXO GEO T tangent array rig. Artists appearing at the concert included Pitbull, Mike Posner, Lupe Fiasco, Taio Cruz, T-Pain, Jesse J, Far East Movement, David Gueta, and Tinie Tempah.
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LAS VEGAS – Evan Hooton, founder of Colorado-based Pure Quality Sound Productions and longtime audio professional, has joined FOH magazine as Media Director and Blog Master of Pro Audio Space (PAS). PAS has become the number-one social networking site serving the live sound industry and has more than 7,000 members.
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STOW, OH — Audio-Technica recognized Wadsworth, OH-based Online Marketing as its Rep of the Year for the 2011 fiscal year. Philip Cajka, Audio-Technica U.S. president and CEO, and David Marsh, Audio-Technica territory manager, professional products, presented the award to Online Marketing principal Mark Taylor. Online Marketing sells Audio-Technica’s complete line of professional audio products to sound contractors and retailers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
CHICAGO — Audiologist Michael Santucci, founder of Sensaphonics, Inc, has been named Lead Audiology Advisor to Hearing Health Science, Inc. (HHS), a start-up company specializing in hearing research and therapy. HHS is set to launch Soundbites, a nutraceutical supplement developed to help prevent noise-induced hearing loss.
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INDIO, CA – The three-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival annually attracts crowds of up to 70,000 a day to see more than 180 international artists perform on six stages at the Empire Polo Club in the California desert. To meet the requirements of the artists performing on the stages in the Mojave and Gobi tents, Rat Sound, the production sound provider for the Coachella Festival for the past eleven years, this year supplied two complete systems comprising a total of 28 EAW MicroWedge12 (MW12) Stage Monitors.
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TROY, AL – Veterans Memorial Stadium, home to the Troy University Trojans, has undergone a series of additions and upgrades over the decades that transformed it from a glorified grandstand to its current capacity of 30,000 fans. All Pro Sound of Pensacola, FL recently revamped the stadium's sound system with Danley's Jericho Horn, the JH-90 (a.k.a. the J1). The sound system now delivers reference-monitor fidelity to every seat in the horseshoe-shaped bowl at 6 dB over the previous system, using just a single JH-90 that is positioned behind the upper portion of the scoreboard.
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LAS VEGAS – Nominations are being accepted online once again for the third annual Indispensable Technology "IT" Awards. The awards competition recognize technologies that have… Read More »Nominations Open for 2011 Indispensable Technology “IT” Awards
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LEICESTERSHIRE, U.K. – The 9th Annual Download festival drew more than 70,000 over three days to Donington Park in central England to hear Def Leppard, Pendulum, System of a Down, Linkin Park, Alice Cooper and others. SSE Audio again supported the event, but this year with a digital network enhanced by the Dante compatibility available via the Lake LM 26.
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FLORENCE, Italy – Powersoft is offering an NWare plugin for Peavey's MediaMatrix NION System. NWare software controls MediaMatrix digital signal processors and peripherals. The new plugin lets users control and monitor Powersoft K Series and Duecanali amplifiers through a single graphic user interface within NWare software.
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MADISON, WI – DSP horsepower and customizable functionality were just two of the factors that made QSC's Q-Sys Integrated System Platform the ideal solution for the recent renovation of the Wisconsin State Assembly's audio system.
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GREENSBORO, NC – WorxAudio Technologies named Chris Rachal sales administration and support manager, a new position. Rachal's background includes previous positions in retail sales, as on-air talent for the broadcast market, and as a recording engineer, sound editor/composer, mobile DJ and AV technician. He will be based at WorxAudio's corporate headquarters in Greensboro.
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WILKESBORO, NC – MerleFest, the bluegrass-and-Americana oriented festival founded by Doc Watson in memory of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, in 1988, returned to Wilkes Community College with support once again by SE Systems and co-owner Cliff Miller, who served as the event's audio director. Miller, who has been supporting the event for all of its 24 years, brought something new – DiGiCo's SD10 console, which made its North American debut at the four-day event – and which Miller had recently purchased, sight unseen.
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