PARIS – For Deep Purple's tour, which continues through Germany and France, their long-serving FOH engineer Gert Sanner has taken the opportunity to transfer his show mix from his Soundcraft Vi6 digital console to the smaller footprint of the new Vi1.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – HM Electronics (HME) announced that the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is awarding the company a Technology & Engineering Emmy for the development of the wireless intercom system.
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WAYNESBORO, PA – Steve Christiano of G.A.D.G.e.T. Media saw some red flags when Hollowell Brethren in Christ Church opted to scrap plans for a new facility in favor of converting the gymnasium into a multi-purpose facility.
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ROME – EVR Media, one of the companies in Proel Group, opened its new office here with the kind of fanfare it hopes to be providing for other corporate events in the region. The event including sound support for jazz and DJ performances along with choreographed dancers, lighting and projection.
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NASHVILLE, TN – Cheaper to Keep Her, Je'Caryous Johnson's traveling R&B musical starring Vivica A. Fox and Brian McKnight, chronicles the woes of a man who is about to lose everything to his soon-to-be ex. To support the show, Jet Productions owner Titus Cunningham has far fewer misgivings about the commitment he made to Aero gear from D.A.S. Audio, according to Prosonic AVL owner Edward Hobby, who sold him the gear.
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HORSHAM, PA – Bauder Audio Systems, which has provided audio production services to the greater Philadelphia area for more than 30 years, recently expanded its rental inventory of NEXO line array products, including 22 GEO S1210s, two GEO S1230s, eight of the new RS18 Ray Subs and six NX4x4 amplifiers.
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ARLINGTON, VA – Part of a $9.6 million renovation and expansion at Cherrydale Baptist Church was an upgrade to the audio system. Following a design from Miller, Beam & Paganelli, Baltimore-based Design & Integration Inc. installed one Tannoy VQ 100, a pair of VS 15HL subwoofers and nine V8s for reinforcement within the main sanctuary, and 12 Tannoy CVS 6 in-ceiling speakers plus five iW 6DS in-walls for other areas of the church.
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APB designed its new family of ProSpec mixers for live performance applications, including Mono, Stereo, or LCR mixing in installations, and also for portable ap-plications. Each of the ProSpec-1U8M's 8 mic/line input channels features a Burr-Brown microphone pre-amplifier with APB-engineered support electronics.
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SAN DIEGO – For their recent North and South American tour legs, The Pixies took along a sound system supplied by LMG Audio Systems with new Lake processing at its heart. Craig Mitchell, account executive for touring sales at LMG, credited the three Lake LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processors for "flexibility and audio quality," and also noted ease of rigging as well.
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LONDON – The first Midas PRO3 live audio system to roll off the production line has been sold to the Rambert Dance Company as its touring console. The PRO3 replaces the company's Midas H1000 – also, as it turns out, the first in production. The sale was made by LMC Audio's sales manager JP Cavaco.
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MIAMI – Jason Derulo recently completed the first leg of his North American tour supported by monitor engineer Billy Flores, who has also worked with Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu and Taio Cruz. Flores mixed monitors on using a Yamaha PM5D.
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OSLO, Norway – Rubicon AS purchased an MLA rig consisting of 20 MLA top boxes, 12 MLX subs, and four MLD Downfill enclosures from their local distributor, em nordic AS. The order follows major system purchases by launch customers Complete Audio of Germany and North Carolina-based Special Event Services (SES).
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