VIENNA, Va. — Feld Entertainment, Inc. has announced the completion of its acquisition of Live Nation Motor Sports, Inc., a division of Live Nation, Inc. As a result of the acquisition, Live Nation Motor Sports will be immediately renamed Feld Entertainment Motor Sports.
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AKG’s D7 is a dynamic microphone that is designed to deliver clear sound for lead and backing vocals for live sound applications. The D7 features an improved capsule design that contains a humbucking coil and a high-pass filter along with a sleek redesigned look.
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I got the call on Wednesday that I would be leaving for England on Monday, having been invited by the folks at Midas to be present for their latest and greatest product unveiling. I knew Midas would not spend the time and money necessary to gather journalists from all over the U.S. and Europe if they didn’t have something big to show off. I figured that they had created a new digital mixer or stage box, but Midas was keeping their new baby a secret.
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — JBL VerTec line array loudspeakers were deployed by ATK Audiotek for the Republican National Convention that took place at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. from Sept. 1-4. The convention, which featured major speeches by party leaders and luminaries including President George W. Bush, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Major Gen. Rick Goddard of the U.S. Air Force (ret) and U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, among others, culminated with a major speech by Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
Read More »NASHVILLE — Allen & Heath and Turbosound have announced a three-day open house event at Soundcheck rehearsal facility in Nashville, Sept. 22–24, 2008. Featuring two iLive Digital Consoles at FOH and monitor positions and flown Flex Arrays, Studio A will be set up to simulate a real-world, large-format live mixing environment. Allen & Heath and Turbosound representatives will be onsite to give hands-on digital console mixing demos.
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BUENA PARK, Calif. — Eight years after Linkin Park released their first CD, the band has embarked again on the Projekt Revolution Tour. This time around, monitor engineer Kevin “Tater” McCarthy has taken along the new Yamaha DSP5D Expander for use in conjunction with a PM5D monitor console.
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LONDON — Norwegian band Secret Garden finished off this year’s tour with a special concert including a symphony orchestra. This wasthe first show with the new Soundcraft Vi Series V3.0 software in use. The last concert of the tour was a special outdoor show incorporating a 27-piece symphony orchestra in the band’s hometown of Kristiansand, Norway. With the orchestra and nine musicians/singers on stage, the need for more than 64 channels was obvious.
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GLENVIEW, Ill. — Known to most Midwest concert promoters as “the NEXO guys,” Gand Concert Sound of Glenview, Ill. has completed the first half of the year with record utilization of their expansive NEXO speaker inventory. Gand supplied over 140 NEXO GEO T Boxes in June alone for such artists as Dickey Betts (also using a Yamaha M7CL console), Jo Dee Messina, Pat Benatar, Merle Haggard, Charlie Daniels, 38 Special, Shooter Jennings, Blue Truth, Gavin DeGraw, Frankie Valli, REO Speedwagon, Sawyer Brown, Wayne Newton, Trisha Yearwood, Loretta Lynn, Kenny Rogers, Muddy Waters Blues Fest and Herbie Hancock.
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LONDON — Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart’s Phantom of the Opera, one of the West End’s most successful productions, celebrated 21 years at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. The occasion was marked with the installation of a Meyer Sound system featuring the new UPQ-1P wide coverage loudspeaker.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — In a move to foster closer, more communicative commercial relationships with its channel partners in Asia, Latin America and Canada, Harman Professional has announced the opening of new field sales offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Kuala Lumpur Field Sales Office will be led by David McKinney, who is promoted to senior director of Sales, Asia, Harman Professional. The San Juan Field Office will serve Latin America and Canada and will be led by Jaime Albors, who is promoted to senior director of Sales, Intercontinental, Harman Professional. Both offices will soon add new hires in field sales and technical support.
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DALY CITY, Calif. — Every time Kevin Moore puts out an album, he gains a new wave of fans. The urbane bluesman — better known as Keb’ Mo’ — has gone from playing obscure clubs in south central L.A. to filling halls across several continents. His current tour in support of his new album, Suitcase, has him bouncing between Europe and North America, alternating between headlining and sharing the stage with the likes of Taj Mahal and Robert Cray. At the FOH and monitor helms are two Digidesign VENUE live sound systems.
Read More »MIAMI — D.A.S. Audio has announced the addition of five new firms representing the company’s products in the United States. The rep firms include Anew Communications Technology, Inc., Dick Bellew Sales, The Healy Group, Bob White Associates and Pacific Coast Audio. Anew Communications Technology, Incorporated is a well-known firm that focuses its efforts on the Western United States. Spearheaded by CEO and President Nelson Brugh, Anew Communications Technology will represent DAS Audio in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
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