LONDON – The Hot Rats, a side project of British Indie band Supergrass, recently embarked on tour with a compact Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to manage various live performances and media appearances.
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PALESTINE, TX – As they were moving towards a blended worship service, Southside Baptist Church members found that their old sound system in their 1,250 seat main worship center was a poor match for the demands of contemporary music.
BREA, CA – The Cause Community Church got its start in 2005 as an expansion of the Faith Community Church mega-church in West Covina. Members started meeting at a supportive Brea, Calif.-based movie complex.
BERKELEY, CA – As a non-profit organization with a mission to keep giving home-grown music a jolt, Freight and Salvage Coffee House has hosted a wide range of musical performances for more than 40 years. When it moved to a new facility at the beginning of the year, it needed a state-of-the-art audio system that had the flexibility to handle anything from rock ‘n' roll to soft acoustical shows, which is why the venue opted for the Soundcraft Vi4 digital console.
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BUENOS AIRES – The 6th Edition of the Personal Fest, a two-day event headlined by Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys, drew more than 60,000 people to Club Ciudad. Other bands at the event included Nile Rodgers & Chic, Zero 7, Cafe Tacuba and Tahiti 80.
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WROCLAW, Poland – The One Love Sound Festival, staged recently at Centennial Hall, drew close to 10,000 fans of reggae, roots music, dub, hip-hop, dancehall and world and electonic music. The sound system for the event was provided by a Czak Music, based in Tarnobrzeg, Poland.
Read More »MARCOUSSIS, France – L-Acoustics has named the first group of its K System Engineers (KSEs). The first KSEs include Ulf Oeckel, Sherif El Barbari, Nick Pain, Paul Van Baasbank and Vladimir Coulibre.
VISTA, CA – The upgraded Moonlight Amphitheatre includes a new permanent system complete with JBL PD5000, VerTec and VRX Series loudspeakers. The system was designed by Acoustic Dimensions and installed by Sound Image. It gives the venue the ability to host one-off concerts and events ranging from classical music to rock ‘n' roll in addition to its primary summer use for Broadway musicals.
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Okay, baseball fans, the World Series is over and the New York Yankees have reclaimed their rightful place as world champions and the path of the parallel universe that the world has been traveling through since 2001 has been corrected.
Read More »It was Benjamin Franklin who coined that phrase. Not a bad bit of advice for the folks who started this country and for people today. Especially for house of worship sound mixer types (I know there weren't any back in Bens' day) during the holiday season. But maybe he should have said; "God helps those who ask for help."
Here's another informative column by Mark Amundson, reprinted from the Aug. 2009 issue of FOH. -ed.
Being in the live sound business, and especially towards the ankle-biting side, I get a lot questions of how much audio power or amperes of loading a typical circuit can handle before tripping the circuit breaker.
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We were doing a three-day business-to-business networking conference in a converted warehouse on a pier on the East River in New York. Our company provided sound reinforcement and A/V for a stage with the evening entertainment, an area where several hundred attendees were served meals and listened to speeches, as well as several booths.
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