NILES, IL — Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena was host to the 2013 CMA Awards, known as “country music’s biggest night,” with a live ABC telecast and a venue packed with fans. For the sixth straight year, artists Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley co-hosted the awards, which honored both youth and experience, with a three-hour string of hit songs and unusual collaborations all using Shure’s premium condenser microphones.
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BLACKSBURG, VA – Systems integrator Daktronics recently upgraded Virginia Tech University’s Lane Stadium with new Harman’s JBL VLA Series loudspeakers along with BSS and Soundcraft gear. The stadium seats 66,233 and is home to the Virginia Tech Hokies football team. The goal of this renovation was to ensure a high output system and even coverage from seat to seat.
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NEW YORK – For the 14th annual T.J. Martell Foundation Family Day, held recently in Roseland Ballroom, Audio Production Services (APS) provided dBTechnologies DVA line arrays for a roster of artists including Jason Mraz, Ed Wheeran, Austin Mahone and Emblem 3. APS owner Simon Nathan hung L-R DVA line arrays of two T12 and three T4 enclosures per side. Four T4 boxes provided front fill; two S-30 subwoofers and two DM12 monitors handled the low end.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Providence KL, a nightclub that opened here in July 2013, installed a NEXT-proaudio sound system. Next Integration Engineering, NEXT-proaudio’s distributor in Malaysia, provided six X15, six X12, eight X8, six XH18, four XS118 and six XS12 speakers. The whole system is powered by NEXT MA series gear.
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LUTON, U.K. – Cadac named recently-formed Entertainment Technology Australia (ETA) as its distributor for Australia. Cadac’s international sales manager Ben Millson, left, is pictured here with industry veteran David Croxton, who founded ETA in July 2013. The new Australian distribution firm has offices and warehouses in Sydney and Melbourne.
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DUBAI, UAE — Joe Chidiac of Pulse Middle East designed a system for the Iris Club near Ghantoot Marina here that includes Turbosound TCX loudspeakers. The system includes 28 TCX-15 loudspeakers and 16 TCX-15B subwoofers along four four Milan M15 portable loudspeakers that can move around and be deployed as needed. The audio system is powered by 10 RACKDP-50 four-channel digital amplifiers with built-in DSP.
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LAS VEGAS — Odds are pretty good that the 2013 Parnelli Awards, set for the Mirage Las Vegas Nov. 23, will break all previous attendance records. How good? Well, for starters, the total number of reserved tickets has already exceeded the total attendance for any previous show.
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BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound named Pablo Espinosa chief loudspeaker designer, adding to his current role as vice president of research and development. As chief loudspeaker designer, Espinosa will oversee the company’s loudspeaker development strategy, from hardware and user experience design to engineering, as well as long-term conceptual planning for the full loudspeaker lineup.
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KITCHENER, Ontario, Canada — TC Group Americas named Abbey Masciarotte fegional marketing manager for the install, tour and residential markets. She will be responsible for all marketing activity in North America relating to Tannoy, Lab.gruppen and Lake – the TC Group audio brands relevant in those markets.
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NEW YORK CITY — Bucking the trend of past shows, the 135th convention of the Audio Engineering Society, held from October 17 to 20, 2013 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City, was an overwhelming success on every level. After a disappointing turnout at last year’s show — that unfortunately coincided with Hurricane Sandy, which devastated parts of the East Coast and played havoc with air travelers throughout much of the country — AES rebounded this time with its highest attendance in five years, drawing some 18,453 registrants.
Read More »MONTREAL — Francois Menard, president and shareholder of Solotech, recently announced shifts among its shareholders. Denis Lefrancois, co-president and one of the main architects of Solotech from its beginnings in 1977, has departed, along with a major Quebec-based institutional investor. In their place are three new strategic financial partners for the company: Claridge, Capital Regional et Cooperatif Desjardins and Investissement Quebec.
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LSC’s APS (Advanced Power System) power distribution unit is designed to remove the problems caused by the large in-rush and earth-leakage currents common with modern switch-mode power supplies found in audio amplifiers, intelligent lights, video-walls and LED fixtures, resulting in unwanted breaker trips.
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