AUCKLAND, New Zealand – College Hill Productions supplied live sound for the recent Big Day Out music festival, which featured performances by Lily Allen, The Mars Volta, Jet, Kasabian, The Decemberists and Fear Factory.
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BRNO, Czech Republic – Audioblue used an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for a Mass held during a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city.
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BURBANK, CA – Electrosonic named Paul Brown, a 20-year veteran working for companies such as Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies, general manager of service for Electrosonic's European office in Dartford, England. Brown also operated a consulting company that provided services to Verigy, following its spin-off from Agilent Technologies.
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DENVER – Pathways Church's Temple Event Center couldn't budget for a total sound system upgrade, but Summit Integrated Systems was able to achieve a significantly improvement in output, fidelity and imaging via Danley SH-96 loudspeakers and T-115 subwoofers.
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EAW's Large-Format Dual-18-Inch-Loaded Subwoofer has been designed to meet the needs of sound reinforcement companies and contractors looking for a non-flown version of EAW's SB1002 subwoofer. The successor to EAW's SB1000, the new SB1001 is essentially an SB1002 Large Format Flyable Subwoofer without the rigging hardware.
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MILFORD, NH – Pianist/arranger/conductor Randy Waldman is finding that the Earthworks PM40 PianoMic System lets him spend more time arranging, producing, recording and live performances and less time worrying about how the piano is miked.
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AMSTERDAM – The Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show reported 28,489 attendees at the 2010 trade show, a 14 percent gain from 2009. For DiGiCo, the show ended with three more of SD8 mixing consoles added to the inventories of Dutch rental companies.
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY – Acoustic Dimensions announced that David W. Robb has joined their New Rochelle office as senior associate for the Audio and AV Group; providing design direction, quality standards, documentation supervision and a critical ear for performance space projects.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The Who's Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey gave over a thousand people assembled for a Super Bowl XLIV press conference an impromptu sample of what they would be hearing later during the NFL's Bridgestone Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show.
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RADOMSKO, Poland – It is official: using a Telefunken Elektroakustik M 80 vocal mic and a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar, Alex Carlin performed for 32 hours, earning him the new Guinness World Record for "Longest Concert by a Solo Artist." The extended show took place at the Pub Bourbon Street and broke the previous record of 27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds by a French-Canadian known as "Gonzales" in Paris.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, U.K. – The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has opened a new exhibition and visitor center near the house Shakespeare was born. Life, Love & Legacy: A New Introduction to William Shakespeare takes visitors through five zones in an immersive experience, bringing the history of Shakespeare to life.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Pink's aerial artistry, the Black Eyed Peas, the 3D tribute to Michael Jackson and the pairings Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli and Leon Russell with Zac Brown all made the 52nd annual Grammy Awards a night to remember. Earthworks' PM40 PianoMic system helped optimize the artistry of the piano accompaniment heard by 25.8 million viewers.
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