AUSTIN, TX — The Austin City Limits Music Festival featured 130 bands on eight stages in three days of performances. Robert Ausmus of LD Systems (Houston, TX) and his crew relied on an Electro-Voice X-Line line array loudspeaker system to provide sound reinforcement for the Xbox 360 stage.
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POMONA, CA — The 2,000-capacity Fox Theater Pomona reopened earlier this year after 10 years of disuse. The two-year, $10 million restoration project included a new L-Acoustics KUDO rig designed and installed by Rat Sound Systems.
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ROCHESTER, NY — At the Rochester School for The Deaf, Bag End S18E-C subwoofers placed face-down on a vibrating floor help deaf and hard of hearing children “hear” music by letting them feel the vibration of the sound through the floor.
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NEW ORLEANS — The flooding of Hurricane Katrina closed some of the New Orleans’ biggest theaters, including the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts. But the venue has since reopened with a new Meyer Sound M’elodie line array loudspeaker system.
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SHEFFIELD, U.K. — Green Day’s ongoing world tour in support of its latest album, 21st Century Breakdown, has its monitors mixed on a Studer Vista 5 SR digital mixing console, the choice of monitor mixer Beau Alexander, who has worked with the band since 2004.
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NEW YORK — The set designs and clever costumes are part of the appeal of Shrek The Musical, which opened on Broadway in Dec. 2008. But another innovative feature is something that can’t be seen by the audience —Sennheiser MKE 1 microphones worn by the cast on stage.
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MARIETTA, GA —Founded in 1998, St. Peter Chanel has grown from just six families to a membership with 2,500 families and a new church completed in 2008. While the church has been designed with traditional neo-Gothic architectural details, the audio system is contemporary, using Renkus-Heinz Iconyx Digitally Steerable Array loudspeakers.
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STUTTGART, Germany — The largest concerts for the 11-day BW-Bank Jazzopen Stuttgart 2009 festival moved indoors to the new Stuttgart fairgrounds this year, providing some 28,000 visitors and performers a more stable audio environment. Meyer Sound also provided sound reinforcement for the first time.
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MEMPHIS, TN — Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (LBMS), built in 1965 and renovated in 1987, was overdue for an upgrade for sound system components that had been exposed to the elements since 1981. The budget still hasn’t allowed for a comprehensive sound system upgrade, but contractors were able to add 12 weatherproof Danley TH-115 subwoofers.
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INDIO, CA — After a five-year hiatus, Phish reformed earlier this year for the release of Joy and a subsequent 27-date national tour, which included headline spots at the Bonnaroo Music Festival and a four-night run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver.
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JOHANNESBURG —South Africa’s Shattered Glass recently purchased a Soundcraft Si2 console to prepare for upcoming events including the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Read More »DUSSELDORF, Germany — A wholly-owned PRG subsidiary, MHG Media Holdings GmbH, and the majority stakeholders and board of Procon MultiMedia AG agreed for the PRG unit to acquire Procon MultiMedia AG.
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