WOODINVILLE, WA – Loud Technologies Inc. has appointed Thom Stalcup as vice president of operations. He will be based at the Woodinville, WA headquarters. Stalcup comes to Loud with 30 years of experience in operations, engineering and program management, including deep expertise in new product introduction and supply chain management.
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HANNOVER, GERMANY – Coda Audio, a designer and manufacturer of speaker systems, has appointed Luke Jenks as managing director of Coda Audio US. Jenks, who has more than 20 years of industry experience, is tasked with establishing a new Coda Audio headquarters in the US and building a team that can work with top level firms, designers and installers.
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GLENDALE, CA––Brad Stephens has joined Martin Audio in the newly-created position of Southeast regional sales manager. Most recently, Stephens served as a Cisco Systems senior product manager.
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BETHLEHEM, NZ – Showtechnix, a disributor for EM Acoustics, recently made their first two Halo-C sales in New Zealand. The first was at the Capitaine Bougainville theatre. But then, the sound production and hire specialists Bounce NZ, who were brought in as advisors for the theatre, liked the gear so much, they invested in Halo-C for their own rental inventory.
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AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam’s legendary music venue Paradiso has chosen SSL Live consoles for both its FOH and monitor positions. Paradiso began its life in 1968 as the ‘Cosmic Relaxation Center Paradiso,’ after an abandoned church was squatted in 1967 by hippies intending to turn it into a music venue. Since then it has become an icon of popular culture.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – James “Pugsley” McDermott, FOH engineer for country star Dierks Bentley and system engineer for VER, chose to outfit Bentley’s show with a Meyer Sound Leo and Lyon system. He spoke about the sound on tour at Bentley’s recent show on his “Somewhere On a Beach Tour” at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.
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MCKENZIE, TN – The growth at Bethel University’s football games has lead students to bring their own chairs, setting them up in the hilly, grassy areas outside of where the sound reinforcement system covered. Failing to resolve it with a music store equipment purchase, Bethel brought in Lowrance Sound Company, which brought in an Ashly system to solve the fans’ sound issues.
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Focusrite has launched the Clarett OctoPre, a new eight-channel mic pre/A-D/D-A designed to allow the rapid addition of eight mic/line inputs and line outputs with the company’s Clarett range of audio interfaces, or other interfaces that include ADAT optical I/O. The Clarett OctoPre will be shipping in November.
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HAMPTON BEACH, NH – Bernie’s Beach Bar was expanding its performance space, and as an outdoor venue in the Northeast, it looked to a new sound system that not only could cover the multiple listening areas, but also be taken in and out due to the unpredictable weather. RPM Dynamics installed VUE’s Acoustic linearity based sound system.
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ALPHARETTA, GA – The Verizon Amphitheater in Alpharetta, GA recently hosted Live Nation’s “I Love The ’90s” concert for more than 11,000 fans. Atlanta-based AEE Productions provided a EAW KF line array system to reinforce the sold-out show.
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LAGUNA HILLS, CA — Reinforcing its commitment to create highly customized insurance policies that meet the needs of the live and special event production industry, Take1 Insurance has introduced its Take1 Combined Crisis Cover, the industry’s first comprehensive, affordably priced insurance protection policy that provides immediate coverage of up to $1 million annually in the event of, or threat of, malicious acts including terrorism and that caused by an active assailant who interrupts or cancels a planned live event.
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CARY, NC – Four back-to-back Danley OS-90 weatherized loudspeakers are covering four separate baseball diamonds in Cary, NC. The equipment choice was easy, as the town of Cary already had a history of successful Danley installations. The Cary Theater and the Cary Arts Center Theater both have permanent Danley systems, and the town’s mobile events system also consists of Danley boxes.
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