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Vienna Concert Hall Gets Upgrade with Meyer Sound Speakers, Allen & Heath Control System

Konzerthaus - Great Hall

Vienna Concert Hall Gets Upgrade with Meyer Sound Speakers, Allen & Heath Control System

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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Basel House Set Up

Basel House and Bushwick Collective Block Party Rock Miami with VUE Loudspeaker System

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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Connor Sharpe and Joel Livesey built a custom playback rig

FOH Engineers Create Custom Playback Solution

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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Telefunken Drum Mics

New Drum Mic Packs from Telefunken

 

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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Gene Joly

Gene Joly Named VP of QSC’s Professional Division

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.

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Sound Engineer Oscar Söderlund

Ane Brun Completes Tour With dLive

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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Sensaphonics 3D-U

Sensaphonics debuts universal-fit Active Ambient earphones

New 3D-U brings patented Active Ambient technology to a wider audience. Sensaphonics, the technology leader in personal monitoring and hearing wellness, is expanding its 3D AARO line with the introduction of the 3D-U ambient earphones, at NAMM 2016 in Anaheim. The new model offers the full functionality of the 3D AARO system in a universal-fit design, bringing Sensaphonics’ patented Active Ambient technology to a wider audience at a more affordable price.

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