Video of the Week: November Issue Preview
Focusrite RedNet Helps 3G Productions Keep Electric Daisy Carnival’s Main Stage Connected
LAS VEGAS – At the 2015 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas this year, EleRedNet D16 AES was the critical interface for the output of 96-kHz audio via Dante networking to AES3-compatible amplifiers for the sound system on the stage that hosted Tiesto, Calvin Harris, Armin Van Buuren, Avicii, Kaskade, Afrojack and other leading EDM artists.
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QSC Debuts New Website with Enhanced Features, Navigation and Content Structure
COSTA MESA, CA – QSC says its recently upgraded website is designed to make it easier for customers navigate and find QSC products and solutions along with other resources and support information.
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South Korea’s National Gugak Center Upgrades Meyer Sound System with M’elodie
SEOUL — The National Gugak Center has added M’elodie line array loudspeakers to upgrade the decade-old Meyer Sound system in its 800-seat Yeak-Dang Theatre. Renowned for its role in preserving and promoting ancient Korean musical traditions, the Center continues to count on the durability and reliability of its UPM-1P, CQ-1, and CQ-2 loudspeakers, which were reconfigured for the upgraded system. The new system includes left and right arrays of 12 M’elodie loudspeakers each and four 600-HP subwoofers.
Wisconsin Ice Arena Gets Audio Edge with Powersoft System
STEVENS POINT, WI – For Willett Ice Arena, Soundworks Systems provided a nine-zone array system powered by Powersoft Ottocanali and Duecanali amplifiers.
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SES Installs Visually Discreet L-Acoustics System at The Cove Church
MOORESVILLE, NC – For an audio upgrade at The Cove Church, Special Event Services (SES) installed L-Acoustics Kara(i) line arrays with SB18i subs behind each main array hang and four SB28 subs on the ground. The new system was chosen as a telegenic alternative to the center cluster of a point source system installed when the building opened in 2008.
Read More »Show Report: Live [Audio] from New York – AES 2015
NEW YORK — Let’s be blunt. In past years, the conventions of the Audio Engineering Society have strayed away from the live community. In fact, at the 2012 convention, only one manufacturer of sound reinforcement speakers exhibited product on the show floor — and that was a small, 10 x 10-foot booth featuring ceiling speakers, which hardly reflected the growth and vitality that the live audio community has experienced over the past decade. Cognizant of that fact, this time around the AES put a full court press, reaching out to the sound reinforcement community, repeating the popular Live Audio Expo with seminars available free to all attendees, and encouraging more live sound companies to the exhibit floor.
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Yamaha Rivage PM10 ‘Shakedown’ Continues
BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha says the Yamaha Rivage PM10 Digital Audio Console, first previewed in the U.S. at InfoComm in June, has been making the rounds prior to its official launch. The consoles were put to use by crews at Willow Creek Church in Chicago and Grace Chapel near Nashville, and a number of sound companies will be offering demos of the consoles in early December.
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Brazilian Gospel Music Festival Relies on Allen & Heath dLive Mixing System
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Allen & Heath’s new dLive mixing system managed FOH, monitors and broadcast for a 30,000 capacity festival held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pictured here is the dLive at FOH.
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Ashly Names Frequency Sales as its Rep for Chicago, Northern Illinois, Southeast Wisconsin
WEBSTER, NY — Ashly Audio named Frequency Sales as its manufacturers rep in greater Chicago, greater Milwaukee, and the surrounding regions of northern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin. Pictured here is Gene Williams, president of Frequency Sales.
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Crossroads.TV Church Installs VUE Audiotechnik Gear
LANCASTER, OH — When Crossroads.TV Church moved to a new facility — the former home of a multiplex movie theater — Dave Lowery and Matt Price from Sound Inspiration LLC (Columbus, OH) designed and deployed a system that makes use of VUE Audiotechnik’s al-4 Subcompact Line Array System.
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‘Godspeed: A Rock Opera’ Heard via DPA Microphones
HOLLYWOOD, CA — To support extreme sound levels and tones in a production of Godspeed: A Rock Opera at the El Portal Theatre in Hollywood, Sammy Oriti opted for DPA Microphones’ d:fine 88 Directional Headset Microphones.
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