ANAHEIM, CA – Along with the challenge of opening up five satellite campuses at the same time right before Christmas, Saddleback Church suddenly had a staggering need for custom cases. The organization is renting schools for Sunday services and religious education, so these churches had to roll in and out 52 Sundays a year.
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DENVER and VERONA, Italy – Dowlen Sound Inc. and Britannia Row Productions put the new Outline GTO large format line array through its paces, respectively, at the Mile High Music Festival and with the final leg of Peter Gabriel's New Blood tour in Europe.
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MIAMI, FL – Proel America named industry veteran Ed Simeone V.P of Sales for North America. He will be responsible for all sales and marketing efforts in The U.S. and Canada for Proel, and will manage their independent sales rep force.
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WEDEMARK, Germany – The Supervisory Board for Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG recently approved a new global organizational structure separately targeting consumer electronics, professional systems and installed sound.
Read More »FRANKFURT and HAMBURG, Germany – Sirius Showequipment AG in Frankfurt and Amptown-Verleih GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg recently announced that they had joined forces in Sept. 2010. The two companies also announced plans to open an office and warehouse location in Munich in early 2011.
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LONDON – For Paul Weller's recent tour across the U.K. and Ireland, Andrew Jones, Weller's FOH engineer, and tech support Mike Savage used a Midas XL8 FOH supplied by Canegreen/SSE.
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD and LATHROP, CA – After operating in southern California for more than 20 years, US Audio and Lighting added an office in Lathrop , CA earlier this year, and, along with that expansion, added four L-Acoustics LA-RAK touring racks, each with three LA8 amplified controllers, to its inventory of gear.
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XTA's iCore software package was developed to provide the interface for sister company MC² Audio's Ti Series and XTA's DC1048 integrated audio management system. XTA has now extended the iCore2 package to support all 4Series products. The company has also added new features to simplify live sound and installed operating systems, with enhancements to parameter linking, custom control panels, application auto-update and wireless kit compatibility.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA – Yamaha Corporation Japan and Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. announce a strategic partnership with Rupert Neve Designs, based on both parties involvement with VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) Technology.
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LONDON – Danish rockers Volbeat are currently in the midst of a European tour to promote their album Beyond Hell/Above Heaven. With inspiration ranging from Elvis Presley to Metallica, the band's unique sound features two DiGiCo consoles on the live shows.
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BARCELONA, Spain – The BAM (Barcelona Acciò Musical) Festival, which runs concurrently with the Spanish city's traditional La Mercè celebrations, has attracted 120,000 music fans with mostly free, mostly open-air concerts throughout the downtown area.
Read More »OGDEN, Utah – One of the largest annual events dedicated a cappella music is A Cappellastock, organized by a capella group T Minus 5. Hosted by Nathan Osmond, this year's edition also featured Mosaic and Face.
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