SHANGHAI, China – Harman's JBL VRX line arrays, Control Contractor installed-sound loudspeakers and BSS Soundweb London processing systems are supporting performances at the U.S. Pavilion at World Expo 2010.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Yoshi's most recent jazz venture, in San Francisco's Fillmore Heritage Center, carries on the tradition begun by founder Yoshi Akiba and her partners Kaz Kajimura and Hiroyuki Hori in 1973, when they opened a small sushi restaurant and jazz club in Berkeley. EAW's Strategic Engineering Group customized its AX Series to keep the much-larger newer club's sightlines clear without compromising the sound.
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ANTALYA, Turkey – L-Acoustics' Turkish distributor, Elit Light & Sound Technologies, recently assisted the Christian & Missionary Alliance of Canada with its biannual Assembly, providing the needed PA system and manpower.
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SAN DIEGO – For Whisper House at the Old Globe Theatre, the sound design team of Dan Moses Schreier and associate designer David Bullard chose AKG's DMS 700 wireless microphone system outfitted with AKG handheld mics including the C5 condenser, D5 dynamic, D7 dynamic handheld. Schreier and Bullard also used left and right clusters of JBL VRX932LAP Powered 12-inch 2-way line array loudspeakers suspended from the proscenium for the orchestra-level audience, and two arrays of VRX928LA speakers targeted at the balcony.
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ISCHGL, Austria – After winding down the first leg of the Freedom tour backing her fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom, Alicia Keys has since headed off to Europe with monitor engineer Kevin Glendinning in tow. Glendinning is using a Yamaha PM1D digital audio console.
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LONDON – Florence and the Machine completed a string of U.K. dates with a Midas PRO6 at front of house, operated by sound engineer Ian Laughton and provided by Britannia Row Productions.
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SAN DIEGO – The USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier was the recent venue for the pop-punk band, Bowling for Soup, which got enlisted by Navy Entertainment to play the "thank you" concert for more than 2,500 crew members at the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.
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LONDON – The O2 in London recently hosted a rendition of Bizet's classic opera, Carmen. To convey both the power and subtlety of Bizet's music throughout the 18,000-capacity arena, Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. provided a Meyer Sound reinforcement system.
Read More »MERIDIAN, MS – Peavey is putting new emphasis on the company's Commercial Audio division, which was created to more efficiently manage and support the company's brands including MediaMatrix, Crest Audio and Architectural Acoustics.
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Crest Audio's E-Lite series amps are built on a high-speed class D design with a switch-mode power supply to reduce weight while increasing reliability, thermal efficiency and output power. The E-Lite 1800 and E-Lite 1800 DSP offer 900 watts per channel, and the E-Lite 3000 and E-Lite 3000 DSP have 1500 watts per channel. Both versions weigh less than 10 pounds and can be used in parallel, stereo and bridged modes.
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Ashly Audio's pêma (Protea Equipped Media Amplifier), a powered processor, combines Ashly's DSP functionality with the company's amplifier functionality inside a two-rack space unit.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – More than 900 exhibitors were expected to show their latest products at services at InfoComm10, set for the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 9-11. So if you budget 60 seconds to absorb all the information at each booth – and allow zero seconds for walking from booth to booth – you can cover the show in about 15 hours.
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