POMONA, CA — CSI MultiMedia (Campbell-Shaw, Inc.) of Woodland Hills, CA, designed and integrated the new Q-Sys system now in use at the new $28 million Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center, an 85,000-square-foot addition to the Fairplex Exposition Complex here. The QSC integrated system platform has been designed to network AV resources for the expanded center’s existing and future hotel and conference halls.
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MAINZ, Germany — Many years ago German musician Maurice Kzionska found his love for music expanding into love for good sound. So he migrated to sound engineering—firstly in a small club nearly two decades ago but more recently as an in-demand freelance and house engineer at Theatre of Rüsselsheim, near Mainz. To support his increasing workload he has invested in a new Harman Soundcraft Vi1 digital console, supplied by Cologne-based Toneheads, after being introduced to them by Jörg ter Veer of Harman’s German distributor Audio Pro Heilbronn.
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Now shipping, Smaart v.7.4 acoustics software adds many powerful GUI and measurement capability enhancements, and features, including a complete overhaul of the Impulse Response Mode and integration of the measurement/analysis capabilities from Smaart Acoustic Tools. It also adds improved versions of its intelligibility and acoustic response capabilities, tweaks such as timed or infinite peak holds, Dual Spectrographs (for simultaneously viewing two plots), Multi-Device Transfer Function measurements, user-defined views/zooms and Enhanced Trace dB offset.
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ANN ARBOR, MI — Hearing Health Science, Inc., a privately-funded company developing Soundbites hearing health supplements, announced real-world studies with musicians to measure and confirm the effectiveness of the patented, FDA-approved micronutrient in mint form. Sensaphonics founder Michael Santucci is overseeing testing and documentation of the clinical trials via his Musicians Hearing Clinic at Sensaphonics, Inc. in Chicago.
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CHESSINGTON, U.K. — DiGiCo announced that pro audio veteran Simon Blackwood is joining the company to fill a new and, so far at least, somewhat unspecified position within the company. Blackwood moves to DiGiCo from his previous post as managing director for Turbosound, which was recently acquired by Behringer corporate parent Music Group.
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CALGARY — Sound Art general manager Dan Frerichs took responsibility for coordinating wireless frequencies at the TransAlta Grandstand Show during the 10-day Calgary Stampede. He used four channels of Axient and 16 channels of Shure UHF-R wireless to guard against dropouts for performances by country music star Paul Brandt and perennial Stampede cast members The Young Canadians.
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SANTA ANA, CA — Flag Systems, based here, provided audio support for music genres ranging from smooth jazz to bass-heavy hip-hop at the Jazz Fest West and HARD Summer outdoor festivals with JBL V25 line arrays and S28 subwoofers.
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TORREVIEJA, Spain — Orecam provided an RCF TT+ sound system for the 20th Night of the Habaneras on Cura Beach here recently. Close to 5,000 people came to see seven local groups perform at the event, which served as a prologue to the 58th Certamen Internacional de Habaneras y Polifonia.
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LAGUNA BEACH, CA — Micworks, Inc. supplied L-Acoustics KARA, SB18 and LA8 gear for the annual Pageant of the Masters summer festival at 2,700-seat Irvine Bowl here. This year’s production, Genius, focused on visionaries including Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci.
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NEWBURGH, NY — To accommodate a broad variety of events in the newly renovated atrium at Mount Saint Mary College, based here, Audio-Video Corporation of Albany installed a new sound system featuring Harman’s JBL CBT Series column loudspeakers and JBL Control Contractor ceiling speakers.
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HITACHINAKA, Japan — MSI Japan, which has supported the Rockin’ On magazine-sponsored Rock in Japan music festival since it was launched 12 years ago, provided a Martin Audio MLA system for the largest of the six stages at this year’s event.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Altincizme recently provided an extensive HARMAN audio system featuring JBL VerTec line arrays and a Soundcraft Vi6 front-of-house console for the One Love Festival in Istanbul, Turkey, produced by Pozitif Productions. The One Love Festival took place at the famous Santralistanbul venue and celebrated its 11th consecutive year with performances by internationally renowned artists including Kaiser Chiefs, Pulp, Damien Rice and Kimbra.
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