CHICAGO – Gand Concert Sound (GCS) helped turn the penthouse open-air bar at the Wit hotel, called Roof, into a rock club of sorts, with performances from Missing Persons and Letters to Cleo supported with Yamaha and NEXO gear.
Read More »AMHERST, NY – Columbus McKinnon recently issued a statement pertaining to questions about brake retaining pins on the company's hoists.
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MATTHEWS, NC – The Sennheiser Sound Academy seminar series stops at Elevation Church July 14-15. Attendees can expect to learn about key practices, topics and trends in the installed sound/systems integration business.
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Audio Tool v. 1.0 is a new app from Performance Audio. It's a decibel meter, disk space calculator and audio reference all in one, well-suited for anyone who needs a fast, easy way to measure the sound levels around them, calculate recording times, or quickly find the definitions of commonly used audio terms.
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NILES, IL – Shure Inc. promoted two of its vice presidents to senior vice president. Ron Thompson, vice president of operations, was promoted to senior vice president of operations and COO. Avi Vaidya, vice president of product development and CTO, has been promoted to senior vice president of product development and CTO.
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NEW ORLEANS – Chris Brown, owner of production company SOUNd CHeK MUSIC, dealt with torrential rain and a heat index swing from 70º to 105ºat the Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do stage, one of 12 at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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ST.PETERSBURG, FL – ESI Audio is supporting the growing Tampa Bay Rays Post-Game Summer Concert Series this year with a 48-box NEXO GEO T line array under the direction of crew chiefs Rick Soukup and Ozzy Giron.
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SEATTLE – Karrie Keyes, who has been mixing monitors since 1991, opted for a Midas PRO6 console supplied by Rat Sound for the band's 2010 tour in support of its Backspacer album. This represented a change for Keyes, a longtime devotee of Midas' Heritage desk and other analog consoles.
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VERONA, NY – Clair Global is supporting the latest George Thorogood & The Destroyers tour with a pair of DiGiCo SD8-24s for FOH and monitors – and the gear is also being used for live multitrack recordings slated for release next year.
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NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival draws some 400,000 visitors each year for seven days of music, cooking and crafts. Kingston Audio Services supported the event in 2009 and 2010 with Outline Butterfly and Mantas vertical line arrays and Subtech 218s for the low end.
Read More »TALA, Kenya – Sound Creations recently equipped an event truck with dBTechnologies DVX and Flexsys active boxes for sound reinforcement. Equipped with four DVX D15s, two S20s, two Flexsys F15s and one Flexsys F10 powered speaker, the vehicle is being used for outdoor promotions of products and events in the region.
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LIMA, Peru – Miriam Kolar, a PhD candidate at Stanford's Computer Research in Music and Acoustics program, has been using Countryman's B6 microphones as part of the Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project.
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