LAS VEGAS — Voting for the 2009 Parnelli Awards has begun. Go to www.parnelliawards.com/vote and let your voice be heard. There will be a new Indispensable Technology “IT” award category for Audio, along with returning categories for Sound Company, Hometown Hero Sound Company, FOH Mixer, Monitor Mixer and System Tech of the Year and more. To purchase tickets, go to www.parnelliawards.com/reservations.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary —Wynton Marsalis and his 15-piece band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, performed in Budapest before a crowd of 1,750 at the Budapest Congress & World Trade Center with a modest complement of Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers.
Read More »NASHVILLE, TN — Tour Supply has announced the formation of TSI Distributing, a wholesale distribution company specializing in live performance products. The company has exclusive U.S. distribution agreements with 3rd Power Amplification, G-LAB, Palmer and Microphome for its initial product portfolio, and has established a national network of rep firms to bring these products to retail.
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OTTAWA, KS — Although StagePro has managed to get by with analog consoles as it has supported summer festivals ranging from Lollapalooza, Country Jam, Rothbury, Langerado, All Good, as well as Austin City Limits and Rock Jam festivals, the soundco finally went digital as the 2009 summer season kicked off with its purchase of two Midas PRO6 consoles.
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ARECIBO and PONCE, Puerto Rico — Ricky’s Audio Corporation provided the sound equipment and services for two recent World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) professional wrestling events here, including JBL VRX Constant Curvature line array speakers and dbx signal processing for system control.
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MADISON, WI — Full Compass is commemorating its move to a new, 140,000 square foot facility with a free two-day expo and party Oct. 23-24, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Electro-Voice released LAPS V2.2A; this new version of LAPS, the Electro-Voice line array modeling and design program, is available for free download from the EV Web site.
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NASHVILLE, TN — Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn are currently on tour promoting their tenth album, Cowboy Town, and their monitor engineer, Kurt Springer, is using an AKG wireless system with over 30 AKG products.
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KIRKLAND, WA — With a congregation of about 7,000 worshippers spread over six locations, City Church opted to connect its main Kirkland campus with its other locations via satellite, enabling live broadcasts. Designer Justin Friesen created a networked audio solution based around Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing consoles supplied by Lift AV in Renton, WA, and GC Pro in Seattle.
Read More »MUNICH — Promising the first fully-synchronous CAT5 media streaming system for streaming uninterrupted media in real time, Optocore has introduced SANE (Synchronous Audio Network plus Ethernet), a new digital audio networking protocol.
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NEW BEDFORD, MA — Some of the costumes and set elements for the two-week run of The Producers at the New Bedford Festival Theatre this summer may have been the same as those used for the Tony-award-winning Broadway production starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, but the sound was definitely new, with Jason Choquette using DiGiCo’s SD8 console as a key part of the production’s sound system design.
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FLORENCE, Italy — Powersoft named Thomas Mittelmann Business evelopment Manager. Mittelman’s experience includes nearly eight years with Lab.gruppen.
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