LUBBOCK, TX — “High levels of intelligibility” isn’t the first phrase that comes to mind when you envision a gymnasium full of middle-schoolers. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what the Laura Bush Middle School (LBMS) has achieved with the installation of Tannoy’s high-performance VQ Series and V-Series loudspeakers in their gymnasium in August 2011.
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ORLANDO — Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) supported the wireless needs of the 2012 NBA All-Star Game, held at the Amway Center here recently, providing frequency coordination duties for wireless mics and communications gear. PWS provided its new Domed Helical Antenna along with all player mics. The company also provided frequency coordination for the NBA’s Jam session and other events surrounding the game.
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ORLANDO — Panamax/Furman has named AVIO (Troy, MI), DSI Entertainment Systems (Lake Balboa, CA) and Premier Custom Audio & Video (Carmel, IN) as its 2011 Home Entertainment Source (HES) Dealer of the Year Award winners. Pictured here are, from left, Paul LeMay, regional sales manager, Panamax/Furman; Brent Wiseman, partner, DSI Entertainment Systems; and Jimmy Paschke, director of CI sales, Panamax/Furman. The awards were presented on Feb. 28 at the annual HES Summit here..
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ORLANDO — Green Hill Church, a Korean-language Presbyterian house of worship in Orlando, has upgraded its sanctuary sound reinforcement system with the installation of an L-Acoustics KIVA system. Laservision World of Los Angeles performed the system design and installation.
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LONDON — The 2012 Brit Awards, held for the second year running at the O2 Arena, got sound support from Britannia Row, which supplied a Midas PRO6 at FOH and also a PRO6 and PRO2 on monitors. Britannia Row’s Josh Lloyd (pictured here left) served as FOH engineer for the production, working with Brits live sound supervisor Derrick Zieba (right).
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AMSTERDAM — Martin Audio’s Dutch distributor, TM Audio have equipped major concert venues in the Amsterdam area with the company’s sound gear. A recent case in point is at Duycker, an Amsterdam rock venue and cultural center, where TM Audio provided a Martin Audio W8LCi compact line array system. Other examples in recent years include Paradiso and Melkweg nightclubs.
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ANN ARBOR, MI — “The Big House,” aka Michigan Stadium, got even bigger in 2011 when the University of Michigan completed an expansion and upgrade that included a large complement of equipment from Meyer Sound.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Unwasted Weekend, the name of a teen-focused anti-drug campaign supported by MTV, refers to the benefits of steering clear of substance abuse. But Matthew Israel, the location sound mixer on the project, also didn’t want to waste any time on re-takes. Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics helped Israel make the best use of available time.
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Allen & Heath’s ZED60-10FX Mixer, to be featured at Frankfurt this year, starts with the company’s popular ZED-10FX, a compact, portable mixer well-suited for solo artists and small bands, and adds 60mm faders. Two of the four mono channels have high impedance jack inputs that can take a normal line level or a low level input from a guitar pickup, so guitars can be plugged straight into the mixer without the need for DI boxes.
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NASHVILLE and ATLANTA — Harman’s Soundcraft will continue its “Mixing With Professionals” seminar series in March with stops in Nashville (March 7) and Atlanta (March 21). Both seminars feature Kenneth H. Williams, FOH engineer and production manager for Erykah Badu, who has also worked with Estelle, Raheem DeVaughn, Corbin Bleu, LL Cool J, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer and the Goo Goo Dolls, among others.
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TEMPE, AZ – Michael ‘Woody’ Woods has been promoted to President of the Entertainment Division at Precise Corporate Staging, where he will lead the account services, operations and business development departments. Woods has a background as a musician, musical engineer and producer.
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WHITINSVILLE, MA — EAW named Steve Davis EAW Service Manager. Having worked as an EAW employee then a contract vendor through his own company, Performance Audio of New England (PANE), Davis is now in his 25th year as EAW’s primary service resource.
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