PORTLAND — Earth, Wind & Fire originally formed more than 40 years ago, in 1971. Three of the original band members, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, and Ralph Johnson, three of the original members of EWF, continue to tour the world along with 10 other performers in support of their 21st album, Now, Then, Forever, released last fall. New, custom in-ear monitors from 1964 Ears, based here, are meeting the band’s on-stage monitoring needs.
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BANGKOK, Thailand — The College of Music at the Mahidol University here has equipped its new performing arts center with audio, communication and media technology from Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup.
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GLASGOW — Scottish alt rockers Del Amitri reunited and hit the road for the first time in 12 years with lighting, sound and crew supplied by Liverpool based rental specialist Adlib.
Read More »PASADENA, CA — The 125th Rose Parade on Jan. 1 featured floral floats, marching bands, and equestrian units along a 5.5 mile route here. Once known as a quaint, horse-drawn parade, the Tournament of Roses draws 700,000 spectators and is seen by millions of television viewers across 200 countries. Rat Sound got an assist from Shure Technology for the event’s audio support.
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SAN PIERO A SIEVE, Italy — K-array named Klaus Hausherr product specialist for its concert series. Hausherr brings more than 30 years of experience to his new role, most recently serving as a sound engineer for large scale live events throughout the Italian peninsula and beyond.
Read More »JOHANNESBURG — The Gearhouse Group announced its takeover of the rental operations of Prosound, another South Africa-based provider of pro audio, lighting, AV and staging services. Prosound will continue its focus on lighting, AV and sound integration projections along with event design and sales.
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HANOVER, Germany – Oliver Voges is among the sound engineers turning to Waves plug-ins to support live shows, including major festivals, live TV events and a roster of artists including Faith No More, Deftones, Tangerine Dream, David Copperfield and Sarah Brightman. Most recently, for German rapper Casper, Voges has been using Waves MultiRack SoundGrid with Waves SoundGrid Server One to run Waves plugins on a Yamaha CL5 Digital Mixing Console.
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DETROIT — Acoustics By Design, the lead AV consultant on a project that transformed underused 12,000-seat Cobo Center here into a facility better suited to the needs of the North American International Auto Show, opted for a system that includes Danley Sound Labs SM-60F full-range loudspeakers and Danley TH-115 subwoofers.
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SELANGOR, Malaysia — Clef Productions Sdn Bhd owner Alvin Koh, a user of DiGiCo’s original D5 consoles before adopting the company’s SD Series consoles, used DiGiCo’s SD10 at FOH for a major production titled Anuar Zain’s Three Decades of, Music, Love and Passion. The concert, featuring the singer famed for also serving as a steward for Malaysian Airlines, filled 8,000-capacity Stadium Melawati on Feb. 16.
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MONTEBELLUNA, Italy – Leading Technologies, a distributor of Harman Professional products, helped the owners of an architecturally significant industrial building convert the structure from its historical use for drying tobacco to a new purpose – the site for the recently opened Mattorosso Restaurant & Live Bar. Although the building itself was not designed with acoustics in mind, Harman components help the site work as a performance venue.
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The new SBH-10 “Skinny Big Horn” represents Danley Sound Laboratories’ entry into the column speaker market. It promises to combine the aesthetic benefits of a column speaker with fidelity, superior pattern control, no spurious lobes, and no requirement for complicated signal processing.
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