NEW YORK — Scharff Weisberg Inc. (SWI) provided Overland Entertainment Co. with audio support for the second Veuve Cliquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governors Island, which saw Prince Harry, on his first official visit to the U.S., leading his team to victory. The event raised funds for the American Friends of Sentebale, a charity Prince Harry co-founded in 2006.
Read More »The Digigram Aqonda remotely-controllable EtherSound stagebox can transform up to 16 analog audio signals into as many EtherSound channels and inject them into an EtherSound network. Building on Digigram’s EtherSound bridges, ES8-mic, ES8-in and ES8-out, Aqonda combines the functionality of all these devices in a single 2U rackmount unit and incorporates additional network and control capabilities.
Read More »ZEBULON, NC — SurgeX named Sound Vision Marketing and Online Marketing/CRM as independent manufacturers representatives.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — The less-than-a-year-old Midas PRO6 live audio system made its debut at the Glastonbury festival this year, joining the XL4 and Heritage systems already in use.
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LONDON — British rock artist PJ Harvey and monitor engineer Ben Booker recently completed a European tour using Allen & Heath’s iLive-T digital mixing system.
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STRASBOURG, France — The Theatre National de Strasbourg (TNS) was recently equipped with an Outline loudspeaker system made up of Doppia II point source enclosures.
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NEW YORK — City Winery, a 21,000-square-foot combination of winemaking, gourmet dining and live music in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, is equipped with a M’elodie line array loudspeaker system from Meyer Sound.
Read More »ELKHART, IN — Bartlett Microphones, developer of the TM-125 and TM-125C stage-floor microphones, appointed two new dealers on both sides of the Atlantic: 10 Out of 10 Productions Ltd. in the U.K. and Church Audio Supply in the U.S.
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MORGAN HILL, CA — The 30th annual Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras continued to grow, like, well, you know, with an estimated 70,000 attendees overall, and upwards of 3,000 of them gathering at the Morgan Hill amphitheater to feel the beat from an ISP Technologies Tripower Reference concert series speaker system provided by 4 dB Sound.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, U.K. — Sound engineer Walter Jaquiss recently joined forces with Adlib Audio and Lighting for the latest John Barrowman tour, and two Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles were used for the production.
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PARIS — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. marked the 30th anniversary of NEXO loudspeaker systems. This year is also the first full year of NEXO’s transition to becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation Japan.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — Audio rental company RG Jones Sound Engineering marked its third year overseeing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury by supplying a Synco package including Synco by Martin Audio W8L Longbow main PA line arrays and Martin Audio delays, a Synco cardioid sub-bass array and a Synco stage monitoring and drum fill system.
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