AUSTIN, TX – Austin’s Circuit of the Americas (COTA), the 3.427-mile Formula One racing track that drew 117,429 spectators to watch the U.S. Grand Prix last November, worked with AV consulting firm Acoustic Dimensions and Ford AV to evaluate, design and install a system that included Community’s R-Series loudspeakers.
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CHICAGO, IL – This summer The Jungle Book has swung into Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, enchanting audience members with its song and dance routines set against the backdrop of the Indian jungle. To give this new stage musical’s sound an authentic feel, sound designer Ray Nardelli turned to Masque Sound for a custom audio gear package.
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MUMBAI, India – Harman India recently announced that it has signed vocalist and performer Sunitha Sarathy as an AKG endorsee. Based in southern India, Sarathy is noted for her prowess performing Indian contemporary music, western classical music and other western styles and in church choirs as a gospel singer.
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DUBUQUE, IA – The University of Dubuque, with an enrollment of 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students, recently finished construction on its new Performing Arts and Campus Center. The backstage paging system includes a single Symetrix SymNet Solus 8 open architecture, fixed I/O DSP paired with four Symetrix ARC-2e wall panel remotes.
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LONDON – Singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ellie Goulding has switched to a DPA d:facto Vocal Microphone after trying it for the first time at the Chime for Change concert, which took place in London in June. Currently touring in the U.S. to promote her second album, Halcyon, Goulding is now using a wireless version of the microphone for all of her concerts.
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MILWAUKEE, WI – Summerfest, held here June 25-29, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest music festival for the past 15 consecutive years. Clearwing Productions supported the 46th annual event with more than 340 L-Acoustics loudspeaker enclosures.
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SAN DIEGO – As die-hard comic fans flooded the San Diego Convention Center, Comic-Con 2013 hosted more than 100,000 visitors as well as hundreds of celebrity guests discussing their latest movie roles and ideas surrounding the comic universe. During numerous panels, stars such as Peter Dinklage, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford addressed questions from the audience through Harman’s AKG D5 microphones.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Over a four-day span, Premier Production & Sound (PSS) Services worked with more than 127 bands in Baton Rouge and New Orleans at various music festivals and events, including the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, LSU’s “Groovin’ on the Grounds” and the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans. For the live sound reinforcement of each event, PSS provided Harman’s Crown amplifiers, JBL loudspeakers and Soundcraft mixing consoles.
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WEST LONDON, U.K. — Entec, based here, continued its 20 year working relationship with British band Blur, supplying sound equipment for the band’s 30-plus performances in 2013. The shows have included dates across Asia, Europe, South America, as well as a headline slot at Coachella; the photo is of the band performing in Hyde Park after the London 2012 Olympics.
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The Varsity Theatre, which is celebrating a 100-year history as a venue for live entertainment here, recently upgraded and expanded with a new in-house sound system from Electro-Voice. The main workhorse of the system is the Electro-Voice XLD281 dual 8-inch line array element, a 3-way system in a compact enclosure. The XLD281s are hung in two lines of six each. The system also includes a half-dozen QRx 218S compact dual 18-inch subwoofers for low-end support.
Read More »MENDRISIO, Switzerland — Schertler, a manufacturer of contact microphones and compact acoustic amplification systems based here, announced new distributor appointments in Czech Republic/Slovakia, Greece, Israel and Taiwan.
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LOS ANGELES — Since it opened here in 2011, the Icon Ultra Lounge has emerged as a nightlife hotspot, with guests reveling to DJs supported by rented sound gear within the 8,000 square-foot lounge and also on a similarly sized rooftop.
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