A Church Give Teens Their Own Space, with Bag End Speakers

LONGVIEW, TX – The First Baptist Church here wanted to give its teen youth group its own space – a dedicated area where they could congregate, interact and worship together as teens. When the bank across the street became vacant, the church bought it and designed a youth center within it – christened The Hub – that included several Xbox stations, a café, a lounge area and a worship center with a new AV and lighting system.

COATESVILLE, PA – DBS Audio has long relied upon on Midas consoles – but until recently, only the analog variety. For the 2010 festival season, however, DBS made the shift to the Midas PRO6.

LANCASTER, OH – DiGiCo has signed on with the second half of the 36-city HOW-TO Church Sound Workshop 2010 tour as the featured digital console sponsor. Earthworks microphones are also playing an integral role for the workshops.

SAN FRANCISCO – The 129th AES convention, set for Nov. 4-7 at Moscone Center, is using the theme, "Your Bridge to the Future."

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Albert Leccese, 57, one of the founders of Audio Analysts, died July 17 after a long battle with lung cancer. He was a brilliant technical mind and a true gem of a human being. A full feature on Leccese's life and achievements is being put together for the August issue of FOH.

WASHINGTON, DC – The "Salute to the Military" USO Concert on the White House South Lawn on July 4th, now in its second year, honors troops and their families for their service to the country. While officially on hiatus, The Killers reconvened to perform six songs at the gig, mixed by their longtime FOH engineer James Gebhard on a DiGiCo SD7.

TORONTO – FOH guru Brad Mulligan made a point of setting up the new Innovason Eclipse digital console to work within the comfort zones of the majority of audio engineers at the Toronto Jazz Festival who stated a preference for an analog console.

EVADALE, TX – It took a while, but Evadale High School's drama department has finally upgraded its sound system with a new Entasys column line array system from Community Professional Loudspeakers. Brent Thornhill of Silsbee, Texas-based Southwest Building Systems (SBS) said it was worth the wait.

DAVIDSON, NC – The sanctuary at Davidson College Presbyterian Church has been fitted with a new sound system using Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC24-R digitally steerable line array loudspeakers.