PAPUA, New Guinea – The Sir John Guise Outdoor and Indoor Stadiums and the Taurama Aquatic Centre and Indoor Sports Complex in Papua New Guinea, underwent complete renovations for the Pacific Games held last year. The sports complex features a total of 20 One Systems CFA-2 loudspeakers. Jansen Limited, One System’s New Zealand distributor, consulted on and commissioned the new sound reinforcement systems.
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CHARLESTON, SC – NBC News and YouTube co-hosted the fourth Democratic debate, and the first one for the New Year, on Jan. 17, 2016. Sunday night’s Democratic Presidential Debate took place in Charleston, SC’s Galliard Performance Hall from 9-11 p.m. LMG provided 150 L-Acoustics 5XT speakers along with video gear for the event.
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PENRYN, U.K. – Allen & Heath has recently expanded the Product Management team based in its UK headquarters with the appointment of Scott Mason as Pro Digital Sector Specialist (pictured here, with A&H’s new dLive mixing system) and Ian Thomas as Install Sector Specialist (pictured below).
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VIENNA, Austria – One of Vienna’s finest concert houses, the Konzerthaus, recently upgraded the public address system serving its Great Hall and Mozart Hall, selecting Meyer Sound speakers and Allen & Heath’s iDR installation matrix mixers. Installed by ATEC Pro, the new system is designed specifically for voice reinforcement. The iDR DSP systems comprise an iDR-4 matrix mixer for the Great Hall, and an iDR-8 for the Mozart Hall, with a PL10 8-channel rotary panel for remote control, and a PL-8 logic box installed in the Mozart Hall for interfacing to external systems.
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MIAMI – Celebrating big-name graffiti artists, the Basel House and Bushwick Collective Block Party is an annual four-day arts and entertainment fair. At the latest block party — which ran during Miami Art Week at the Mana Urban Arts Museum in Miami, former site of the historic RC Cola Plant — street artists created live paintings on canvas, brick walls and cars, while music was provided by live bands and DJs. VUE Audiotechnik loudspeakers were specified to provide sound reinforcement for the event’s performances. LPS Production working in conjunction with Kor Media and Lighting provided the full production setup, from staging to audio and video.
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TORONTO — Front of house engineers Connor Sharpe and Joel Livesey built their custom playback rig for a gig at the Juno Awards and it’s still going strong, having seen them through several NHL, NFL and CFL broadcasts and the closing ceremonies of last year’s Pan Am Games in Toronto.
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At NAMM, Telefunken Elektroakustik will unveil two new microphone drum packs. The DC7 has seven mics: M82 (kick), M80-SHB (snare), three M81-SH (toms) and two M60 FET condensers for overheads. The DC7 ships in a heavy-duty hard shell HC87 flight case and includes drum mic mounts (M782, M784 and M785) and 5-meter SGMC-5R XLR cables with a right angle female connectors for each mic in the set. The DC6 drum pack is similar, but has two (rather than three) M81-SH tom mics. For more info, see them at NAMM, booths #6829 in Hall A or #1878 in Hall E or go to the website below.
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B&C is now shipping the new 1.4” exit DE990TN and DE1090TN compact format high frequency drivers. Originally previewed at the ProLight & Sound show in Frankfurt, Germany during the spring of 2015, these new drivers are now in full production.
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COSTA MESA, CA — QSC, LLC named Gene Joly, an audio industry veteran, vice president of its QSC Professional Division. Joly comes to QSC from Guitar Center, where he has served for 12 years in a variety of senior level positions. In all, Joly has close to 40 years experience in the pro audio and MI industries.
Read More »CHARLOTTE, NC — Neutrik USA announced an exclusive arrangement with Hawthorne, NY-based BTX as its distribution partner for Neutrik’s new XIRIUM PRO product line. XIRIUM PRO promises studio quality, full bandwidth, zero-compression wireless audio (analog, digital or networked) over long distances with extremely low latency.
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SWEDEN – Swedish PA company, Parashoot, has completed a European tour with Norwegian singer songwriter, Ane Brun, using Allen & Heath’s new dLive system to manage FOH and Monitors.Parashoot’s recently purchased dLive system, comprising the flagship S7000 Control Surface and DM64 MixRack, was immediately deployed on the tour, mixing both FOH and monitors on the same console.
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