COOKEVILLE, TN and EL PASO, TX — Separate tour bus crashes injured band members for Hinder and The Ghost Inside Nov. 18 and 19. The Nov. 19 crash near El Paso was the more serious of the two, killing The Ghost Inside’s tour bus driver, Gregory Hoke, 31, along with the driver of an 18-wheeler after a head-on collision.
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ALLEROED, Denmark — DPA Microphones has updated the website at dpamicrophones.com, promising to make it easier for site visitors to find the microphones they are looking for.
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COSTA MESA, CA – 3G Productions of Las Vegas and LA provided a Martin Audio MLA system for the main stage to handle a wide variety of music at the L Festival, held at the Orange County Fair and Event Center Oct. 24-25, 2015.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The Cirkus Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, has become the first venue to install Allen & Heath’s new dLive digital mixing system. Pictured here is Cirkus Arena sound engineer Anders Nyberg with the new dLive at FOH.
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NASHVILLE — The 49th Country Music Association Awards, staged Nov. 4 at the Bridgestone Arena, got audio support from Music Mix Mobile (M3), ATK Audiotek and by Shure PSM1000 wireless PM systems and UHF-R Wireless Mics. Award-winning Shure endorsers at the event included Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line and Little Big Town (pictured here).
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TIPP CITY, OH — Ginghamsburg Church, a United Methodist congregation, opted for a major overhaul of its AV system. The church turned to Columbus-based Live Technologies. The church’s technical and sound engineer, Chris Benge, worked with Live Technologies’ Dave Mead on the upgrade, which included Bose RoomMatch loudspeakers and PowerMatch amplifiers.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Wohler Technologies promoted Michael Kelly to president and CEO, effective immediately. Kelly joined the company in January 2007 and most recently served as the executive vice president of finance and planning. The company also announced an update of its strategic shift to IP and software-centric designs on Nov. 17.
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SYDNEY — As Australian telecommunications and media giant Telstra shows the latest customer-oriented technologies at the Telstra Experience Centre (TEC) in Sydney, the TEC production team depends on Riedel Communications to help ensure a smooth production for both live presentations and event broadcasts.
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NEW YORK — Michael Ahern, 67, one of the pioneers of the live event industry who handled production for artists from The Rolling Stones to Michael Jackson to the Pope, died Nov. 19. He is pictured here at the 2014 Parnelli Awards, where he joined Steve Thomas to present Benny Collins with that year’s top honor.
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GLEN FALLS, NY — An Adamson sound reinforcement system was the PA of choice for heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP) during this past summer’s U.S. tour. This is the second year that they have opted for the Adamson PA provided by Escondido, CA-based Sound Image. Pictured here, from left, are Tony Silipigno, audio tech; Bill Price, systems tech; Bruce Reiter, FOH engineer; Paul Weber, monitors and Tarik Kahn, audio tech.
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NEW YORK — The Broadway suspense thriller, Misery, featuring Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, is using audio components used by sound designer Darron L West and associate sound designer Charles Coes. West and Coes turned to Masque Sound for a system that includes d&b audiotechnik E12s and E12-Ds, Meyer Sound 600HPs and a dual redundant QLab 3 rig into a Yamaha CL1 console via Dante.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Icelandic band Mezzoforte has been touring with DPA microphones – in particular, DPA’s d:dicate 2011C Twin Diaphragm Cardioid Microphones as overheads and d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones for the live brass and drum set-ups, according to sound engineer Joost Bullens.
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