MANCHESTER, UK — Liverpool’s new East Village Arts Club has been equipped with an array of Turbosound loudspeakers as part of a £1.5m refurbishment. MAMA & Company — which also runs venues such as the Jazz Cafe in London and The Ritz in Manchester along with the Global Gathering, Lovebox, and Wilderness festivals — worked with Dimension Audio on the venue’s three defined spaces, which each required individual approaches.
Read More »RAMONA, CA — Salerno Winery, located in the historic Ramona Valley American Viticultural Area, is a boutique winery that opened in 1998 by former opera singer Herman Salerno and his wife Rose. Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) and The Stopper Group recently provided a multi-zone distributed audio system that includes 18 JBL Control 25 speakers, a QSC power amp, QSC powered speakers, a Mackie mixer, and Radio Design Labs preamps and switchers, as well as all mounting hardware, brackets, connectors and cables.
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RISSKOV, Denmark – TC Electronic, based here, named Danmon Asia its new distributor in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. Pictured here is Ole Jensen, VP of International Sales, Broadcast & Production at TC Group, who commented on the development.
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NEW ORLEANS – The 19th Essence Music Festival, held here July 4-7, drew big crowds with headliners including Beyoncé, Maxwell, New Edition, Keyshia Cole, LL Cool J and Jill Scott. For the main stage in the Superdome, VER Tour Sound (VER) provided a JBL VTX line array system powered by Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers to overcome the challenge posed by the venue’s 125 million feet of cubic space.
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CALABASAS, CA – Line 6, Inc. recently introduced the new POD HD Pro X guitar multi-effects processor and studio interface, replacing the POD HD Pro. Like another recent introduction, the POD HD500X, Line 6’s POD HD Pro X features more DSP processing power than before, giving musicians greater flexibility for creating complex signal paths and unique, intricate tones.
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VALENCIA, Spain — Nicolas Billot, marketing manager at Equipson, based here, died Sept. 24 in a traffic accident as he was heading home after a day at work, according to Juan Jose Vila, vice president of product & marketing at Equipson. Billot was 30 years old. “It’s a huge loss,” Vila said, of his friend and colleague, “who had a full life ahead to live. This has been a full shock for all of us, and we are very dismayed for this unexpected misfortune.”
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WHITINSVILLE, MA — EAW named Rusty Waite, a 20-year audio industry veteran, as the company’s vice president of sales. He will be based at the company’s headquarters here.
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CHESTER, PA — Community Professional Loudspeakers named Steve Johnson CEO. Johnson has more than 25 years of engineering, marketing and management experience in the pro audio and communications industries. Prior to Community, Johnson held executive positions at Bosch, Harman and Shure.
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LONDON — Turbosound’s Flashline Mini compact line array and large scale Flashline line array system will be set up for hands-on demos at 3 Mills Studios in London on Oct. 6 and 7, 2013. Attendance is by invitation only, however, so those interested are encouraged to RSVP at their earliest convenience.
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MIAMI – With more than 40 years in the industry and an extensive background in sound reinforcement solutions, D.A.S. Audio continues to hit milestones. In July the company announced that it had manufactured the 10,000th unit of its Aero 12A powered line array systems. The unit, painted gold, appears here with D.A.S. Audio staff members.
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HOT SPRINGS, AR — Each year, more than 200 international musicians collaborate to put on more than 20 concerts for an audience of 10,000 at the Hot Springs Music Festival. This year’s festival, held from June 2-15, included the use of a variety of microphones from Shure including the KSM32, KSM44, KSM313, Beta 181, Beta 27 and VP82, among others.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – The Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, traditionally held the weekend before the live Primetime Emmys telecast, are dedicated to key technical disciplines and behind-the-scenes crafts. Lectrosonics wireless gear played a key role.
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