SAN MARCOS, TX – The building founded in 1941 as the Plaza Movie Theater has morphed over the decades, serving, alternately, as a movie palace, live theater and restaurant. Earlier this year, it reopened after a $2.4 million restoration as the Texas Music Theater, a live music venue. The renovation included new flooring, décor, and audio system including Aphex digital mic preamps and audio transport.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Performance Audio redesigned and reconfigured the audio system at Gracie's Bar in downtown Salt Lake City, using Ashly Audio's two-rack space pêma integrated DSP + amplifier to bring the sound system in line.
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LOS ANGELES – The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Foundation's three-year-old Actors Center has a 125-seat screening room equipped with a pair of Community iBOX i2W8 two-way loudspeaker systems, specified by Allen Pellerin of Systems Integration Group, the design firm for the room's digital AV systems.
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NASHVILLE – Cornerstone Church recently transformed a U.S. Postal Service sorting facility in Bowling Green, KY into a satellite sanctuary. The idea was to offer congregants a blend of live elements, including a band, with a videotaped sermon from the pastor at Cornerstone's Nashville home base. Nashville's Pro Audio Solutions prescribed and installed a sound system centered on Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers for the space, which was built from prefab metal walls and no concern for acoustics.
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BILLINGS, MT – Pro Media/UltraSound recently installed a substantial EAW loudspeaker system at Rimrock Auto Arena within the MetraPark multi-facility events center here, including EAW AX Series speakers, SB Series large format subwoofers and CIS Series ceiling speakers. The project was part of a multimillion-dollar refit of the 12,000-seat arena, which was damaged by a tornado in June 2010.
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INDIANAPOLIS – For a $275 million expansion project at the Indiana Convention Center, Bowen Technovation used Furman's 20A PL-PRO DMC power conditioners to protect audio equipment including JBL and Tannoy loudspeakers and Crown amplifiers.
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NASHVILLE – Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has spent most of 2011 touring the world, performing concerts in Europe, Asia, and even Russia. Known for his complex finger picking style, energetic performances, and the use of percussive effects on the guitar, he has returned to the U.S. for a series of summer dates. He has been touring with Heil Sound microphones.
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LOS ANGELES – A bad case of laryngitis may have forced the cancellation of the last nine sold-out North American performances by British vocalist Adele, but before the tour was cut short, FOH engineer Dave McDonald and monitor engineer Joe Campbell were each supporting British vocalist Adele's U.S. tour with an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system. The system included two iLive-112 Control Surfaces with an iDR10 modular MixRack and iDR0 mini Rack, connected via ACE and input sharing over MADI.
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LOS ANGELES – ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in association with the I Create Music Expo, recently held its 28th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel and Spa in Los Angeles. The event honored pop music songwriters and publishers and was attended by artists, composers and others in the industry.
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DUSSELDORF, Germany – The audio crew for the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which was staged in the Esprit Arena, a soccer venue, had a big challenge hanging over their heads: namely, the arena's corrugated metal roof, which covers more than 22 acres.
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Peavey's IPR 3000 power amplifier, which follows the company's IPR 1600, has a new advanced switch-mode power supply, high-speed class D topology, provides 1,490 watts RMS per channel @ 2 ohms (840 watts RMS x2 @ 4 ohms) and weighs 7.9 lbs.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Every year, the readers of FRONT of HOUSE Magazine honor some of the top regional sound companies in the U.S. and Canada. Based on reader nominations, we list the top contenders from five regions in the U.S. and all of Canada. FOH readers then get to vote for the top regional sound companies in these six areas. These regional winners then become finalists for the annual Parnelli Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year Award, which will be given at the Parnelli Award Ceremony at the Peabody Orlando on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011.
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