OXNARD, CA – Rat Sound is providing sound reinforcement for the current leg of Prince's "Welcome 2 America" tour. The system consists of six hangs of 10 L-Acoustics K1 in the round with 42 dV-DOSC and 40 SB28 subs powered by L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers, and engineers Majid Malki and Fred Lucas are using an analog Midas Heritage 3000 console.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Allen & Heath's Brazilian distributor, Libor, helped André Zampieri, art and musical director for the nearly 30-year-old band Santa Maria, make the digital leap with an iLive-T112 Control Surface and iDR-48 MixRack at FOH.
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LONDON – Entec Sound moved into London's Royal Albert Hall for the seven-day run of 2011 Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) shows, which kicked off with a comedy night on the Monday followed by a mix of music for the rest of the week including headliners Squeeze, Biffy Clyro, Roger Daltrey, Beady Eye, The Editors and Tiny Tempah.
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MUMBAI, India – The 2011 Cricket World Cup final April 2 at Wankhede Stadium wasn't just between cricket players representing India and Sri Lanka. From the perspective of Mumbai-based E2 Tech, it was also between the 24 Turbosound Flex Array loudspeakers they provided and as many as 40,000 cheering, vuvuzela-ing fans.
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HOUSTON – Lon Brannies, a 39-year audio industry veteran who spent 27 years with Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc., passed away April 18 after a long illness.
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LAS VEGAS – Timeless Communications, Corp. owners of ProAudioSpace.com, FRONT of HOUSE magazine, the Event Production Directory and producers of the Parnelli Awards is pleased to announce as of April 25, longtime audio practitioner, touring monitor mixer and live sound engineer Mark Frink will take the helm as editor of FRONT of HOUSE and chief moderator on the ProAudioSpace.com website.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – Aphex added pro audio veteran Charles Boehm to its engineering staff. Boehm joins Aphex after many years as hardware design engineer for Avid Technology's M-Audio division, where he was responsible for heading up design teams behind such products as their Prokeys88 and DCP-200 digital pianos, GSR studio monitors and Midisport USB MIDI interfaces.
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NEW YORK – Lou Mannarino of NY-based L&M Sound & Light recently used K-array's new KR400S for a performance by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Marvin Hamlisch at New York's Avery Fisher Hall, part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The performance featured guest vocalist Idina Menzel.
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TULSA, OK – When The Joint, a 2,700-seat showroom at Tulsa's Hard Rock Hotel and Casino opened in 2010, it was equipped with a house audio system based around Meyer Sound's MICA line array loudspeakers. These arrays were hoisted on chain motors, because management wanted to offer touring acts the option of flying their own systems. In The Joint's first six months of operation, however, the MICAs have never budged.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Renkus-Heinz demoed the IC2 (IC Squared) high powered, medium format digitally steerable loudspeaker system at Pro Light+Sound, featuring the system in 12 public demonstration sessions and a live demo.
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VEJLE, Denmark – Nordic Rentals of Denmark has become an L-Acoustics K1/KUDO/KARA Rental Network Agent. The company recently purchased 48 K1, 36 KUDO and 36 KARA WST line source cabinets, with 24 K1-SB, 40 SB28 and 12 SB18 subwoofers. The system, supplied by L-Acoustics' Danish distributor, Moto Audio Sales, includes LA8 amplified controllers in LA-RAKs with LA-AES3 cards.
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NEW YORK – In his role as senior audio engineer for the NBA, 40-year audio industry veteran Jonathan Freed's job is to make sure that what the camera sees during basketball games, the viewer can hear – as long as the background audio doesn't distract viewers too much from what the announcers are saying.
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