SAN DIEGO — Tears for Fears, which had to reschedule its much-awaited summer tour, recently completed a string of September and October shows through the U.S., trekking from Washington State to southern California. Clearwing supplied lighting and sound for the tour, and Hayward, CA-based Hi-Tech Audio provided a Yamaha Rivage PM10 digital audio console for the FOH mix, helmed by FOH engineer Doug Kimball.
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LAS VEGAS — Celine Dion, five-time Grammy award winner and one of the biggest-selling solo artists of all time, has resumed her residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with her longtime FOH engineer and tour manager Denis Savage and systems engineer Frankie Desjardins. They chose an SSL L500 live console for FOH mixing duties.
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LAS VEGAS — The first of two big shows featuring the Rolling Stones at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena has been canceled, according to a statement on the band’s website. The show was to be staged the same night as the final debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the campus of UNLV three miles away.
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LAS VEGAS — Parnelli Week is here! The forecast for Siena Golf Course on Thursday, Oct. 20 is beautiful – low 80s and sunny. On-site registration is 7 a.m. and the shotgun start is at 8 a.m. sharp. The perfect weather continues for the Parnelli Awards gala at the Rio Hotel and Casino on Saturday, Oct. 22. Last minute tickets can be ordered online through Oct. 20. After that, if any tickets are still available, they can be ordered at the FOH/PLSN LDI booth, #623.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Waves Audio, a provider of digital signal processing solutions, is now shipping the Greg Wells ToneCentric plugin, part of the Greg Wells Signature Series. Created in collaboration with multiple Grammy-nominated producer, musician and mixing engineer Greg Wells (Adele, OneRepublic, Katy Perry, Twenty One Pilots), who has songs on over 85 million units sold, Greg Wells ToneCentric is a musical harmonic enhancer based on Wells’ favorite pieces of analog gear. It is designed to add rich analog tone to individual tracks or entire mixes, in the studio or live, with an extremely easy-to-use single-knob interface.
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EMINENCE, KY – Eminence has expanded their custom design capabilities to include modifying stock models for end users. Depending on parts availability, Eminence can create alternate impedance versions of existing stock models, and can even revive an older discontinued model. Eminence is now also offering a guitar speaker break-in service, once only available to in-demand session and touring guitar players.
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LOS ANGELES – American Mobile is redefining remote music production for live broadcast with Focusrite’s RedNet as the signal-transport backbone for their remote systems deployed this year to Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and Austin City Limits music festivals. American Mobile is currently adding an additional 64 channels of RedNet MPR8 mic preamps to the audio truck, expanding capability to at least 96 channels to keep up with the growing number of channel counts at complex shows.
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NEW YORK – Vandal – a combination restaurant, bar and lounge – needed an audio system that sounded amazing at lower volumes for dinner service, but also have more powerful acoustics for music performances later in the evening. Plus, the owners wanted a low profile speaker that disappeared into the environment. K-array was chosen.
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Martin Audio has announced a significant upgrade to Display, the software brain of the MLA Series. To take into account the input EQ changes required, Display 2.2 is being released in tandem with VU-NET 2.0 control and monitoring software. The Display 2.2 upgrade is automatically sent to existing MLA owners, while VU-NET 2.0 can be downloaded from Martin Audio’s software webpage.
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MONTREAL – LS Media has become the exclusive Canadian distributor for Avid’s live sound solutions, and it now provides training certification on Avid products. The two-day certification, targeted to sound technicians, sound engineers and Avid live sound resellers, is a practical workshop that provides hands-on training in all aspects of installing, configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting and supporting the Avid VENUE | S6L system.
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NASHVILLE—CTS Audio provided Shure wireless microphones and in-ear monitor systems for the 47th annual Dove Awards, which honored top artists in Christian music. All Shure wireless mics were networked together, along with 20 channels of PSM 1000 in-ear monitors through Shure’s Wireless Workbench software.
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