WILSONVILLE, OR – Chris Doss has joined Audix as vice president of sales and marketing. Doss will oversee the sales and marketing department with direct responsibility for the development and implementation of sales, branding, messaging and market/product development efforts for domestic and international markets.
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CHAPEL HILL, NC – Avant Systems Integration of Raleigh, NC, upgraded the sound systems in the Chapel Hill Public Library meeting rooms using Ashly Audio processing and amplification. The rooms are used for town hall meetings, police and fire department trainings, and other events led by citizens and associations.
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ORLANDO – Orlando’s Blue Man Group upgraded its sound system at its CityWalk location to an L-Acoustics Kara system from Clearwing Productions. Says Blue Man Group Sound Supervisor Marcus Ross, “What this system design accomplishes is to get total coverage of the room and allow movement of the sound from front to back and side to side. It’s a full surround sound system and you get incredible localization of the sound throughout the show.”
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MONTEBELLO, CA – Joe Stopka has joined Tascam as director of business development. Based in Chicago, Stopka brings extensive expertise to his new position, based on many years of working with brands including Sony Professional, MIPRO, Electro-Voice, Eventide and others.
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AUSTIN, TX – A bad, aging sound system kept patrons from enjoying the music in the main bar, preferring the limited service on the rooftop deck of downtown Austin’s HandleBar. Owner Brett Vance fixed that with a complete audio overhaul from BassBoss, which also marked its 30th major installation in the Live Music Capital of the World.
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BEIJING – An Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Adaptive Performance system reinforced the Music Power Rock China 30 tour. The venue for the tour launch was a challenging place, says FOH engineer Jim Ebdon. So the seating area dimensions for the Beijing Workers Stadium were plugged into EAW’s Resolution software, which determined the ideal three-dimensional wavefront for the desired area. From there the software communicated with the Anya modules to provide precise coverage.
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DETROIT — Eighth Day Sound is providing sound reinforcement for Beyonce’s Formation tour, which trekked from south Florida in late April to Detroit in mid-June before heading overseas for the rest of the summer. (It returns to North America for more shows in September and October.) The massive 56-truck truck tour is traveling with three DiGiCo SD7 audio consoles, keeping a potential cabling nightmare manageable with a strategic setup of fiber loops and DiGiCo SD-Racks.
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NEW YORK CITY – Arts Brookfield uses a Martin Audio MLA Compact system to reinforce an eclectic mix of concerts, festivals, symphonies and other artistic events in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan. Mark Torchia, technical director for Arts Brookfield, says, “The Winter Garden is challenging because it’s a huge, reverberant glass dome that traps all of the sounds within it including ambient noise from the retail outlets. We chose MLA because of the control offered by the system that lets us put the sound where it needs to be and avoid areas where we don’t want it.”
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BOTHELL, WA — Riedel Communications is the latest of the world’s leading media technology companies to join the AIMS alliance. AIMS’ efforts are focused on promoting the adoption, standardization, development and refinement of open protocols for media over IP, with an initial emphasis on VSF TR-03 and TR-04, SMPTE 2022-6 and AES67.
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The QA22 headworn mic rounds out Que Audio’s Performance Series with this dual-ear headset model. The mic has the same widely accepted European designed micro condenser capsule as Que Audio’s popular single-ear DA12. Key features include total flexibility in headband and boom arm adjustment for accommodating a wide variety of head sizes and jaw lines. The QA22 incorporates pivoting ear cushions for easy mic boom arm placement on either side of the face. The mic can be positioned flat for storage, saving space during transport. Connector options include Shure, Sennheiser, A-T, AKG, Mipro, Revolabs, EV, Lectrosonics, Sony and a 48V phantom-powered connector for hardwired XLR applications.
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SCHAGHTICOKE, NY—Audio Images Sound & Lighting recently deployed JBL by Harman’s VTX Series speakers, powered by Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers, to deliver powerful live sound for 15,000 fans at the inaugural Rock’n Derby music festival in upstate New York. Said David Holland of Audio Images, “The FOH engineers were extremely excited about using the VTX arrays, and we received lots of compliments on the clarity of the sound.”
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