HK Audio has updated its PREMIUM PR:O range of modular speakers with five new active full range cabinets featuring DSP-powered preamps and class-D power amps. Called PREMIUM PR:O D, the speakers are also offered at a competitive price. They were featured at the recent Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany.
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NOTTINGHAM, U.K. — ONE, the album created by musical collective BE based on the soundtrack featured for the UK Pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015, pairs orchestral music with the sound of honey bees. For a live performance staged at the Nottingham Arts Theatre Feb. 18-19, Wolfgang Buttress, Hoare Lea and Squint Opera collaborated with 12 musicians and 40,000 bees, heard via a remote hive. The audio setup included TiMax from Out Board.
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LAS VEGAS — DPA Microphones is showcasing its new linear version of the d:facto Handheld Microphone range at NAB 2016 (Booth C3336). The new d:facto Linear Vocal Microphone will be joined by DPA’s GM1600 Gooseneck, a new mount for the company’s d:screet Omnidirectional Miniature Microphones. DPA’s new MMC4018VL capsule for their d:facto handheld microphone is pictured here.
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No matter what side of political spectrum you fall into, you must admit that this year’s presidential contest has at least has been entertaining and has taken a few unexpected turns. On the bright side, every time some candidate utters a single syllable, there’s a mic there to pick it up, and probably a system set up by some sound company to make those gems of wisdom even louder. Hey, it’s a campaign cost — spread the wealth.
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Since 1983, guitarist Dave Mustaine and gang have continued to keep thrash metal relevant, and here they are again out in support of their latest album, Dystopia. Bradley Johnson of KRF Audio, based in Newport, WA, is once again at the DiGiCo D5 on FOH with Dave Rupsch again handling monitor duties on a DiGiCo SD8. As these engineers were fans of the band when they were teens, it is a great gig for both — professionally and personally. “They are playing new songs from their new album, which, incidentally, is quite good,” Johnson says. “Also there are two new players in the band — Kiko Loureiro on guitar and Chris Adler on drums. They are both scary good!”
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SAN DIEGO — In 2016, Carvin Audio is celebrating 70 years. The company was founded as the L.C. Kiesel Company by Lowell Kiesel in 1946 in his Los Angeles, California garage.
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