DENVER — Bassnectar filled the stadium that is home to the Colorado Rapids soccer team in the Denver suburb of Commerce City with its EDM beat on July 30. Brown Note Productions supported the concert with a d&b audiotechnik sound system for some 24,000 attendees.
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PORTLAND, OR – Ear Trumpet Labs is a small family business which handcrafts each microphone in a workshop in Portland, OR. When it celebrates its fifth anniversary this fall, its year will include high sales growth, placements with a slate of top artists and a new product launch.
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Eastern Acoustic Works announces its EAWmosaic iOS app for the iPad. The free app lets users predict, control and monitor an entire EAW Radius system from an iPad from anywhere in the venue. Further, a single cable can also provide multichannel audio from any Dante-enabled source (i.e., a FOH mixing console such as the Mackie DL32R). End users can create system design proposals, complete with acoustical predictions, in minutes while standing in the design space.
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SOUTH GREENSBORO, NC — The Church On 68 recently replaced their sound system because of its uneven coverage. Selah Media Productions designed and deployed the new system, drawing from the catalog of WorxAudio Technologies to bring new energy to its services.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The Event Safety Alliance announces two upcoming training classes for live event professionals. One is in Las Vegas on Thursday, Oct. 20, one day before the LDI 2016 tradeshow opens, while the other is on Monday, Nov. 28, one day prior to the Event Safety Summit in Lititz, PA.
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NEW YORK – The ESTA Board of Directors has honored two groups of volunteers with the Volunteer of the Year Award: the Technical Standards Program’s Stage Lifts Working Group and the ETCP Subject Matter Experts for the Portable Power Distribution Technician Certificate.
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LANCASTER, CA — Audio Visual Live has been stocking up on its inventory of VUE Audiotechnik gear. The company, known for its support of HBO Boxing and other high-profile events, recently took delivery of VUE’s al-12 Large Format Line Array System. Pictured here, from left, are Ken Berger CEO, VUE Audiotechnik and Dennis Layton, president of Audio Visual Live Inc. The photo was taken at InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas.
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Blue Microphones’ enCORE 100 and enCORE 200 are now available in new all-black finishes and include additional mic grille styles to customize the look of the mics to your application.
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IVINS, UT – The Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Utah’s Padre Canyon has moved from its old dV-DOSC system to a new Kara rig. While the dV-DOSC sonically covered the venue’s seating area and kept sonic energy off the rock walls, the Kara system has improved on that, according to Deward Timothy, Poll Sound’s owner and president.
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MANAUS, BRAZIL – Rental company Gabisom turned to a K-array system to solve some sound reinforcement challenges for the Amazonia Live opening show in the Amazon rainforest. Event organizers created a floating stage in the form of a leaf in the middle of the river, and production was forced to transport all equipment by air and water.
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AMSTERDAM – Italy-based RAI and Berlin-based manufacturer Stage Tec have signed a framework agreement for 18 Aurus Platinum mixing consoles and Nexus for a total of 3.5 million Euros for three years. Stage Tec and PR.IN.CO, the Italian distributor, announced the deal at IBC in Amsterdam.
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NEW YORK — Masque Sound is providing a custom audio equipment package for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Paramour’ now running on Broadway. The biggest challenge faced – and solved – by the designers was the acoustics of the Lyric Theatre itself. The theatre has been beautifully renovated but had some acoustical hindrances. Masque Sound solved it with a custom PA system of KV2 Audio speakers, along with other gear.
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