LONDON— With bands ranging from Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol to Newton Faulkner and Bat for Lashes, sound engineers Dave Roden at FOH (here deployed as system tech) and Will King used digital mixing environments where incoming engineers could hit the ground running.
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JACKSON, MS — The Auditorium is a new performance hall and restaurant that opened in the restored Fondren neighborhood of Jackson after a two-year renovation process. It features a pro-audio system from Peavey that lets this casual-dining destination double as a live performance hall.
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NILES, IL — Shure Inc. named Audio Biz Michigan as the company’s Representative of the Year for fiscal year 2008/2009. Audio Biz Michigan president Randy Stenson, vice president Rick Brown and Steve Meyers, sales representative, received the award at InfoComm in Orlando, Fla.
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MILWAUKEE, WI — Sennheiser’s K-array self-powered live performance speakers made their U.S. debut at Milwaukee’s 11-day Summerfest. The event’s principal production provider, Clearwing Productions, put the K-array systems to use at JoJo’s Martini Lounge, one of 11 stages at the lakefront festival park.
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NORMANDY, France — France Galop, a company that owns several horse racing tracks in France, selected an Allen & Heath iLive digital system to manage audio distribution in its Deauville Touques venue. The company’s other racetracks are in Longchamp, Auteuil, Chantilly, Deauville, Maisons-Laffitte and Saint-Cloud.
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BRESCIA, Italy — Italian soundco Cipiesse Produzioni per lo Spettacolo supported folk-rock artist Tracy Chapman’s recent performance at the Piazza della Loggia using an Outlinearray loudspeaker system for the 40-by-90 meter outdoor seating area.
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SAN DIEGO, CA — The University of California, San Diego (UCSD)’s 150-seat Experimental Theater, part of the $53 million Conrad Prebys Music Center, has been equipped with Meyer Sound’s Constellation electroacoustic architecture.
Read More »TWISP, WA — Tom Pfaeffle, 49, a sound engineer who had done studio and live audio work for bands including Nirvana, The Black Crowes and Heart, was shot through a motel door July 17. He died about two hours later, according to local news reports.
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HALIFAX, NS — Now celebrating its 30th year, the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo (RNSIT) is one of the largest annual indoor shows in the world, with thousands of performers including everything from operatic vocalists to motorcycle stuntmen appearing before tens of thousands of spectators at the Halifax Metro for 10 days.
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LONDON — Can entertainment audio gear adapt to a buttoned-down, 9-to-5 lifestyle? That seems to be the case for Midas’ PRO6 live audio system.
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MILWAUKEE, WI — Summerfest, established in 1968, spans 11 days and attracts up to a million people with 700 bands performing on 11 stages along the Lake Michigan shoreline at Henry Maier Festival Park.
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REVELSTOKE, BC — The 7th annual Revelstoke Music Festival brought blues, rock, acoustic, Latin and World Music artists together in an outdoor setting on the Columbia River near the Selkirk Mountains and Glacier Pass in southeast British Columbia.
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