LONDON – Absolute Radio and smart car wanted to stage an event featuring the pop band Scouting for Girls on the third floor of The Bargehouse exhibition venue at London's Oxo Tower. To bypass noise restrictions, the gig, production-managed by LarMac Live Production, was staged "silently" – each of the 150 guests had headsets and the band members and crew were on IEMs.
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Citing its intuitive user interface, long battery life, wireless and 3G connectivity, light weight, compact size, and resulting popularity among users looking to use the Apple iPad as something more than a high-tech toy, Outline's development team is coming up with more iPad apps that remotely control its gear.
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COLUMBIA, MO – AV integrator Daktronics upgraded the sound system in 68,349-seat Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field, home of the University of Missouri Tigers football team, using a Harman JBL VLA end zone loudspeaker solution wrapped around the Tigers' new scoreboard.
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DAVOS, Switzerland – A key goal for the new sound system in historic Vaillant Arena, home of the Spengler Cup, was for minimal visual impact. And the installation/design team had to be encouraged when venue's owners showed up for an on-site inspection. The owners asked for a timetable projecting when the speakers would be installed. As it turned out, the gear – 42 EAW JFL210 compact line array speakers set in 12 decentralized clusters – was already in place.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The "less is more" credo might seem out of place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where a surplus of speed, horsepower and daring have always ruled the day. But the compact size of QSC's ISIS loudspeakers ended up being a key selling point, according to Dave Dusick, the venue's technical coordinator of multimedia systems.
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SAN JOSE, CA – Working with AV contractor BBI Engineering, which installed the system, The Shalleck Collaborative, Inc. recently designed an new audio system for the San Jose Civic Auditorium using a Harman system including JBL loudspeakers.
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JHAudio is marketing its custom-fit IEMs as an alternative to off-the-shelf ear buds for musicians, audiophiles and other music lovers listening to music stored on iPods and MP3 players, even touting its JH|5 PRO custom-fit IEMs (MSRP: $399) as "the perfect gift for the music lover, audiophile or gadget geek in your life."
Read More »WEST HARTFORD, CT and FAIRFIELD, NJ – Legrand North America has agreed to acquire Middle Atlantic Products, Inc.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – The ability to project effectively and with a high level of speech intelligibility – without appearing to speak – has helped Kevin Johnson get appearances on NBC's America's Got Talent, and CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman, and other high-profile gigs. Since 2007, when he started performing at Legoland in California, he's relied upon an E6 Directional Earset microphone from Countryman Associates.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – British R&B artist Helen Folasade Adu, better known as Sade, has embarked on her first tour in over a decade, with an assist from monitor engineer Horst Hartmann, FOH engineer Chris Madden and Sennheiser microphones and wireless systems.
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Powersoft's version 2.1.707 upgrade of its Armonía Pro Audio Suite software includes the new I/O Signal Integrity Monitor feature. Armonía was designed to control all aspects of the amplifier/speaker audio chain to the audio engineer. The I/O Signal Integrity Monitor extends this control by providing information on input signal irregularities, providing one more tool for engineers setting up Powersoft K Series, M Series with DSP+ETH, Duecanali, Q Series and D Series amplifiers.
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1602Group TiMax's new iPad and iPhone apps are designed to control the TiMax2 SoundHub mix matrix, playback server and audio show control system. Factory-default setups are user-configurable, and a custom programming service provides GUIs tailored to individual needs.
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