OAKLAND, CA — In a re-emergence that might even impress a 17-year cicada, Oakland’s Fox Theater has once again reopened after a 43-year hibernation. The venue underwent repairs and restoration costing $75 million, which brought the 2,800-capacity venue back to its former opulence.
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PUYALLUP, WA —The Seattle location for Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) has helped Foursquare Church update its audio and video systems, enabling members of the U.S. military and others benefit from its services, which are available as audio and video podcasts linked via the church Web site, p4square.com.
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LOS ANGELES, CA — The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thornton, J.D. Andrew and Mike Butler) are supporting their latest album, Modbilly, with shows at several House of Blues locations, South By Southwest, and a recent run through Canada, Connecticut, and Massachusetts with Willie Nelson and Ray Price.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Radiant Church recently purchased two Allen & Heath digital mixing systems — an iLive to upgrade the existing mixing console in its main campus and an iLive-T system for a new satellite location.
Read More »MONTREUX, Switzerland — It didn’t take Patrick Vogelsang, head of audio for the Montreux Jazz Festival, to put new sponsor DiGiCo’s gear to use for the diverse music event.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Rock the Bike, a designer and manufacturer of bicycles with an eye on raising the awareness of the “bike culture,” has used JBL PRX loudspeakers at several of its live music events, which are run on human power generated on bicycles.
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JBL Professional is promising a new benchmark in directivity control, adjustable coverage and sonic fidelity with its Constant Beamwidth Technology (CBT) series of passive line array columns.
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Astatic’s 1600VP continuously-variable pattern condenser hanging microphone system has a remote polar control design and an anti-rotational positioning mount. The system’s variable polar pattern with remote control allows the user to precisely adjust the shape of the pick-up pattern for optimum gain before feedback from a remote location using the standard mic cable.
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The Fishman Amplification Solo Performance System offers the pro audio market a blend of power, portability and performance designed to fit within live sound, AV and house of worship budgets. The system weighs less than 25 pounds, serving as an all-in-one portable PA solution.
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Community’s WET Series and R-Series loudspeakers have been updated with color-matched grilles and yokes and with improved weather-resistance.
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NEW YORK — Scharff Weisberg Inc. (SWI) provided Overland Entertainment Co. with audio support for the second Veuve Cliquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governors Island, which saw Prince Harry, on his first official visit to the U.S., leading his team to victory. The event raised funds for the American Friends of Sentebale, a charity Prince Harry co-founded in 2006.
Read More »The Digigram Aqonda remotely-controllable EtherSound stagebox can transform up to 16 analog audio signals into as many EtherSound channels and inject them into an EtherSound network. Building on Digigram’s EtherSound bridges, ES8-mic, ES8-in and ES8-out, Aqonda combines the functionality of all these devices in a single 2U rackmount unit and incorporates additional network and control capabilities.
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