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Countryman Microphone Integral To Performances of Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton

Slide guitarist vocalist Bill ‘Sauce Boss’ Wharton’s

Countryman Microphone Integral To Performances of Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Slide guitarist / vocalist Bill ‘Sauce Boss’ Wharton’s musical act is unlike any other. The inventor of ‘gastronomical boogie woogie’, Wharton performs an engaging mix of his own swampy Florida blues while cooking a big pot of gumbo and serving it to the audience. Between the musical performance and the cooking, Wharton’s headset microphone is an integral part to keeping it all moving and, for this, he relies on his ISOMAX headset mic from Menlo Park, CA-based Countryman Associates.

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Bag End Introduces Its New CD-12 Time-Align Speaker

LAKE BARRINGTON, IL – Bag End Loudspeakers has introduced the CD-12 Time-Align as part of its Venus series, which Bag End describes as the smallest and lightest yet most powerful speakers available. The first in the new series –– the CD-15 –– wowed sound engineers when it was used at a performance stage at the NAMM Show earlier this year.

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Shure Axient Wireless Management Network Selected For The 47th Montreux Jazz Festival

NILES, IL — This year’s Montreux Jazz Festival, which took place July 5 through July 20, hosted a galaxy of famous artists from around the globe, including Green Day, ZZ Top, The Hives, Prince, and Sting. As in years past, Shure was an official Technical Partner of the festival and responsible for all microphones, in-ear monitoring, and wireless microphone systems for the 16 different stages and locations. For the main stage in the Auditorium Stravinski, the Axient Wireless Management Network was the system of choice, delivering flawless, interference-free performance.

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Sennheiser And House Of Blues Renew Agreement

OLD LYME, CT – Audio specialist Sennheiser and the House of Blues, the iconic chain of high-quality performance venues, announced that they have renewed their alliance. Sennheiser will continue to support the House of Blues with premium microphones and wireless solutions at each of its 13 locations across the United States.

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Michal Ostoja-Ostaszewski

Classical Meets Modern With Mackie Mixer

WARSAW, Poland – Michal Ostoja-Ostaszewski, who works often with the Warsaw Philharmonic, is an FOH engineer. While “FOH mixer” is not a position typically associated with a classical orchestra, Ostoja-Ostaszewski is far from your typical live sound engineer. A classically trained master musician and technology-savvy engineer and producer, Ostoja-Ostaszewski brings a modern technological perspective to Warsaw’s concert hall. As he explains, the Mackie DL1608 digital live sound mixer has proven to be the ideal mixing console for this demanding and exacting job.

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Wind Gust Topples Stage Canopy in NC, No One Hurt

SHELBY, NC — MercyMe band members and crew were performing a sound check at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday Aug. 10 for a concert associated with the American Legion World Series when the event’s organizers noticed a wind shift and grew concerned about its intensity. Less than a minute after they evacuated the stage, a wind gust toppled the structure. The concert, also featuring Aaron Shust and The Afters, was canceled.

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MonoCAT from Sommer Cable

Sommer Cable’s fully reworked and unified MonoCAT cable range includes various hybrid cables that all contain network lines complemented by signal or power supply elements. This allows connecting digital sound, light or video control desks using only one cable and, as the case may be, with only one plug-in procedure, well suited to conference center installations and OB van applications.

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Farber Sound Powers ND State Fair with Crown VRACK Amplifiers

MINOT, ND — Great. Big. Fun. That’s how the North Dakota State Fair bills itself, and this July it lived up to its name with rides, rodeos and concerts by Tim McGraw, Journey, Scotty McCreery, Toby Keith, Brantley Gilbert and other acts. Featuring a grandstand that holds up to 16,000 people, Minneapolis, Minnesota audio production company Farber Sound has handled sound reinforcement at the North Dakota State Fair for the past five years, and this year decided to step up their game with a system based around Harman’s Crown VRACK amplifier systems.

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Waves Audio MultiRack Version 9.5

Waves Audio’s MultiRack Version 9.5 updates MultiRack with a new graphic interface along with the ability to record to two computers simultaneously. Version 9.5 also features 1000 snapshot support for DiGiCo consoles and the ability to run most Waves Signature Series plugins on MultiRack Native or SoundGrid systems.

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