NASHVILLE – For George Strait’s two year, multi-city farewell tour, The Cowboy Rides Away, FOH engineer George Olson, pictured here, is saying howdy to R-101, R-121, and R-122 ribbon microphones from Royer Labs. The microphones capture the sound of several key instruments while helping to Olson’s nightly EQ chores to a minimum. Dallas-based Onstage Systems is providing the gear.
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LONDON — LMC Audio Systems Ltd. and production company DB Audio recently provided a pair of Midas PRO6 digital mixing consoles for the Electric Ballroom venue here, the site for the first in a series of non-publicized performances by Prince (the artist, not Harry and William). The console was chosen for sound quality, but its flexibility also proved advantageous – it easily accommodated a request by Prince’s sound engineer to have all monitors, in-ears and FOH controlled by a single console at FOH.
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DENVER, CO — To record organist Michael Hey’s Feb. 14 performance on the restored Platt Rogers pipe organ at St. John’s Cathedral here, the church’s music administrator, Alberto Gutierrez, turned to recording engineer Mike Pappas, who used a variety of Neumann digital microphones positioned throughout the venue to capture the recital in 88.2kHz resolution/24-bit digital audio.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Tasked with transforming an existing auditorium at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) into a space better suited for live music and dance, Pershing Technologies senior systems engineer Eric Echols relied upon L-Acoustics gear. The system, installed by Diversified Systems of Kenilworth, NJ, included six KIVA with two KILO LF extension loudspeakers for each side.
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Eighteen Sound has announced the release of the 18iD extended low frequency neodymium transducer. The new subwoofer is designed to optimize power transfer when operated with Class D and similar (iPal compatible) amplifiers. The 18iD was shown at the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Wireless audio manufacturer RF Venue has released the RF Optix RF to fiber optic conversion system, which promises to serve as a powerful new tool for mainstream wireless microphone users and also expand the possibilities of antenna distribution and wireless audio design.
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NEW YORK – As landmark soul food restaurant Sylvia’s has grown over the past five decades, its sound system grew in size – but not in quality. Taylor Sound of Long Island, New York recently gave Sylvia’s a sophisticated, yet easy to use commercial-grade sound system centered on a Symetrix SymNet Radius 12×8 Dante networked audio DSP.
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TORONTO — Lawo North America Corp. has moved its headquarters offices to a new facility in Toronto. The new address is: Lawo North America Corp., 2041 McCowan Road Unit 1, Toronto, Ontario M1S 3Y6 Canada; 416.292.0078 (phone); 416.292.0402 (fax). The company also has separate East and West Coast sales and support operations in the U.S. Pictured here, from left, are Sandra Gama (Accountant), Christian Schniering (Product Support Manager – VSM), Herbert Lemcke (President) and Doug Smith (Engineering Manager).
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VANCOUVER, BC – This year, for the first time, the National Hockey League (NHL) programmed four regular season games into outdoor venues in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, scheduling the 2014 NHL Stadium Series between the previously established NHL Winter Classic and NHL Heritage Classic series of outdoor games. Tasked with mixing the live musical entertainment at the games in all three NHL series for broadcast on the NBC networks, Ron Reaves called on production provider Clair Nashville to supply a DiGiCo SD10 digital audio mixing console with two SD-Racks. Reaves is pictured here at left with Jason Spence in the NHL Heritage Classic mix room in Vancouver.
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LAS VEGAS — Waves Audio’s WavesLive Master Class workshop series continues with an upcoming free event set for Sunday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cirque du Soleil’s Resident Shows Division, 1151 Grier Drive, Suite C, in Las Vegas, NV 89119. The event will feature a workshop with live mixing engineers Ken “Pooch” Van Druten (Linkin Park, Alter Bridge), Peter Keppler (Katy Perry, David Byrne, St. Vincent) and Jim Ebdon (Maroon 5, Aerosmith).
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LOS ANGELES – Korn drummer Ray Luzier (pictured here) had been using an Aviom personal mixer on tour for the past couple of years. In 2013, when the band set out on tour after the release of their new album, The Paradigm Shift, keyboardist Zac Baird also started bringing an Aviom personal mixer along for the band’s gigs. Although a recent festival gig in Mexico was canceled, Luzier and Baird will be using the gear as the band’s 2014 tour continues.
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