LOS ANGELES — The 57th Grammy Awards, broadcast on CBS Feb. 8 from the Staples Center, featured an unprecedented 23 live musical performances, led off by AC/DC, pictured here. With so many artists performing in an RF-intensive urban location, the production team relied on Shure gear to overcome the challenge of providing flawless audio from everyone’s wireless microphones and in-ear monitors.
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LAS VEGAS – Martin Audio’s MLA training, demonstration and workshops in the U.S. begins with a two-day workshop Feb. 24-25 at the Cannery Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This workshop will provide a comprehensive understanding of MLA technology, listening experience and hands on training for the MLA Compact and MLA Mini. The training is geared for system techs, engineers, and members of the installation community who want to have a practical understanding of MLA technology.
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MADRID — FOH and Monitor engineer Hugo Pinzon used Waves MultiRack SoundGrid to run Waves plugins for the musical, La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Días. Pinzon, who has also supported Latin Grammy-winning acts and artists including Aterciopelados and Andres Cabas, noted that mixing musical theater productions is “much easier” using the plugins.
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D.A.S. Audio’s Action series of products expands with a new single 18″ subwoofer. The new low frequency unit is aimed at the mobile DJ and portable systems market, where attributes like compact size and high output are especially appreciated.
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LOS ANGELES — The 57th Annual Grammy Awards, staged at Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, showcased a wide array of musical talent, supported by an equally talented crew of backstage pros. Pictured here are (from left, top row): Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher, FOH System Engineer; Mikael Stewart, FOH Production Mixer; Maureen Droney, Producer & Engineers Wing Managing Director; Ron Reaves, FOH Music Mixer. Bottom row: Mark Linnet, M3 Offline Remix Truck Engineer-in-Charge; Eric Schilling, Co-Broadcast Music Mixer; and Glenn Lorbecki, Grammy Award Telecast Supervisor of Broadcast Audio..
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BATON ROUGE, LA — The PreSonus board of directors announced that COO Stephen Fraser (pictured at left) has become the firm’s CEO, effective February 10, 2015. The Directors also announced that Jim Odom — company founder/chief strategy officer (pictured at right), will become president.
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ST. PAUL, MN – Audio Video Electronics (AVE) recently completed an upgrade of First Baptist Church of St. Paul. AVE installed an OmniLine micro-line array system from Martin Audio to optimize coverage and intelligibility in the space.
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Altinex’s new ST100-001 ShareTime Collaboration System, which resembles a flash drive, connects through any HDMI cable to an HDMI display. Using CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) control signals, ShareTime enables users to turn the display on and select different inputs just by touching the top surface of the ShareTime adapter.
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AMSTERDAM – Audinate, creators of digital media networking solution Dante, announced that 200 manufacturers have now adopted Dante, the industry-leading Audio over IP networking solution. The company hit this milestone just 6 months after announcing their 150th manufacturer.
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MILFORD, NH – In celebration of their 35th Anniversary, rock band Toto hit the road and brought Earthworks drum and vocal microphones along for the ride for the Japan and U.S. legs of the tour last year. Pictured here is FOH engineer Ken Freeman. Freeman had experience with Earthworks microphones for measurement and studio recording before trying the microphones out live on stage.
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LARAMIE, WY — For the University of Wyoming’s 15,000-seat Arena-Auditorium, known as the “Dome of Doom,” Pro Sound & Video installed a new sound system that includes six arrays of nine L-Acoustics Kiva enclosures, six SB18i subs, seven 12XTi coaxials positioned over the arena floor and 17 LA4X amplified controllers for loudspeaker power and processing. The WJHW-designed system is part of a $12M upgrade to the facility, the home court to the NCAA Division 1 Cowboys basketball team.
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