SAN FRANCISCO – Neal Schon embarked on a solo mini-tour earlier this year before heading to the studio with Journey for the band's forthcoming release. The Neal Schon Band made its debut at the 2010 NAMM Show and took to the highway on a brief swing through clubs in and around the West Coast, including a live recording for a future DVD at the San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium.
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KINGSTON, RI – Miking an acoustic piano is never easy, particularly for live sound performances, with ambient noise from the crowd, the stage, surrounding instruments and bumped mic stands affecting the sound. That's why Andrew McMahon, pianist and lead vocalist for Jack's Mannequin, opted to take Earthworks PM40 PianoMic system on tour.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Canada – The Briere Production Group provided audio for Korn at the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Vancouver during the band's Canadian Jagermeister Music Tour 2010, including gear from Martin Audio.
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OXNARD, CA – In preparing for the 2010 summer tour season, Rat Sound knew it would be adding some new equipment to its inventory. Starting the season doing five stages at the Coachella festival in April and with several arena tours booked, the company is poised for a big summer. "We're seeing demand we haven't seen in several years," said company president Dave Rat. "This will definitely be our strongest year ever."
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LOS ANGELES – The Warner Center Marriott's 11,000 square-foot, 1,500-seat ballroom can be subdivided into 10 smaller meeting rooms and configured 20 different ways. But the existing sound system wasn't nearly as flexible. So the venue's management replaced it recently with a new system that includes Symetrix' SymNet open-architecture DSP and Symetrix wall panels.
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ALAMEDA, CA – Clear-Com Communications Systems, which HM Electronics Inc. (HME) agreed to acquire recently, announced that it is now offering 4-wire audio connectivity into the Concert server and the Concert client.
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EAW's NTS250 Powered Subwoofer, which can serve as a companion subwoofer for any EAW system (and those of several competitors), is ideally suited in conjunction with the NTL720 compact line array, for use with sound reinforcement or fixed installation for corporate A/V, clubs, ballrooms, theaters, performing arts centers and houses of worship.
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Riedel Communications' Artist 1100 Series OLED control panel expands on Riedel's integrated displays in the panel keys with high-res color OLEDs. With 65,000 colors and a resolution of 140 dpi, the new displays improve legibility, particularly for Asian characters and logos, with up to eight 24×24 pixel images that can be displayed.
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RADFORD, VA – Radford University, founded 100 years ago, opened its Dedmon Center in 1981 with a then-futuristic air-supported roof. Since then, however, the 5,000-seat facility, home of the school's Highlanders basketball team, was renovated with a steel-reinforced roof and a new audio and video system, including Community Professional Loudspeakers' Solution Series loudspeakers.
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OLD LYME, CT – Sennheiser announced that three of its top-performing U.S.-based employees have been inducted into the company's President's Club. Gene Albrecht, Tom Facciolla and Ed Maloney were each recognized during Sennheiser's Global Conference held in Germany last month.
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VIENNA, Austria – Sound designer and professor Wolfgang Fritz recently outfitted the Vienna Opera House with a complete AKG package in preparation for Vienna's Opernball. The gear included a 20-channel WMS4500 wireless system, 19 bodypacks and various microphones.
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MANNHEIM, Germany – After a shootout evaluating six different brands of audio gear, Christian Stader, tonmeister for Nationaltheater Mannheim, chose Alcons Audio gear to meet the challenge of providing sufficient coverage on and below the balconies. Stader said the Alcons system provided a natural sound response with very little compression.
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