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CTS Takes Yamaha Rivage PM10 Up Front and Center with Wallflowers

Jon Schwarz at CTS Audio’s Rivage PM10.

CTS Takes Yamaha Rivage PM10 Up Front and Center with Wallflowers

BRENTWOOD, TN — CTS Audio of Brentwood, TN, has taken delivery of its first Yamaha Rivage PM10, adding to an already ample assortment of Yamaha digital consoles. CTS Chief Engineer, Jon Schwarz (pictured here) shared his recent experience using the flagship console at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville while mixing FOH for  the Wallflowers. He credited the console for its Rupert Neve Designs transformers, onboard EQs and its ability to offer users two stereo busses.

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Outline at Circus Maximus.

Outline Arrays Fielded For Rome’s Circus Maximus Event

ROME – Circus Maximus, a stadium dating back to 7 B.C., was known for chariot races, simulated battles with infantry, cavalry and elephants, which once drew an enormous number of spectators in ancient Rome. Today the challenges are a different sort. At 680 yards long, the challenge was ensuring perfect intelligibility for speakers covering delicate topics during “Family Day,” one of the many large rallies throughout Italy for and against the proposed law regarding same-sex civil unions and adoptions. Cipiesse, a contractor from Rezzato,  took up the audio gauntlet.

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FRONT of HOUSE editor George Petersen

The Arena Experience

You may have noticed a basketball arena on the cover of this month’s issue — specifically San Antonio’s AT&T Center, which now features a 72-box L-Acoustics Kudo system, as part of its recent $110-million revamp. That is one of the new sports facility installations we’ve spotlighted, beginning on page 36 (you can link to the story here). And there’s a good reason to have that as a focus this month.

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The Arcs tour photo by Steve Jennings

The Arcs Keep Their New Music Old School

It’s essentially a band of producers,” says FOH engineer Neal Jensen of The Arcs. “All five of them are really experienced beyond just being great musicians, and it’s a powerful formula. They are pulling a lot from old-school R&B and blues, taking a step back for the roots of it all, particularly Dan, who is really having fun playing the songs that got him interested in music in the first place.” In this case, Dan is Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, and while The Arcs is officially a “side project,” it’s certainly taking on a life of its own on its current tour. Besides a performance at Coachella, they are hitting the theaters and mid-sized venues performing songs of their first album, Yours, Dreamily, which has original songs from each of the band’s five members.

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Sports Facility Projects

When it comes to acoustics, designers and AV pros often complain about theaters, music venues and house of worship spaces, but if truth be told, sports facilities offer an enormous challenge to delivering clean intelligible audio to the fans. And with good reason, as venues such as basketball arenas, stadiums and hockey rinks just weren’t designed with wide bandwidth, high-SPL audio in mind.

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Shane Filan just wrapped a 20-date U.K. tour

Shane Filan’s ‘Right Here’ Tour

Long known for his vocals with Irish boy band Westlife, Shane Filan continued after the band’s breakup in 2012 with a successful solo career. The singer/songwriter’s first post-Westlife release was the 2013 You and Me CD on Capitol Records, and he followed up that album with his Right Here CD that debuted in late September of 2015.

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