GLENVIEW, IL — Gand Concert Sound (GCS), based here, added an 18-box GEO S12 system to their rental inventory. “Yamaha brought in a road rig for a demo at the Viper Alley rock club in Lincolnshire, and not only did they like the system, our own crew was knocked out,” said GCS president Gary Gand. The new Gand NEXO system includes 16 GEO S1210 cabinets, two GEO S1230s, six NEXO NX4x4 amplifiers and four RS18 subwoofers.
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NEW YORK — Eastern Stage Productions (ESP) equipped Gotham Hall, a 1922-vintage landmark building that was converted into a high-end ballroom in 2002, with a Soundcraft Vi1 digital console. ESP engineer Tim Wright credited the console for its compact footprint and full functionality.
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LEATHERHEAD, U.K. — Community Professional Loudspeakers has applied for EN54-24 Certification for its large-scale loudspeaker systems. The company’s gear is also now being tested at Intertek’s recently-opened Life Safety & Security testing facility here. The testing helps ensure that Community Pro gear will help large venues meet intelligible voice evacuation and mass notification requirements.
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OMAHA, NE — Rande Ferguson, FOH engineer for Mannheim Steamroller in the colder months, supported the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival’s 25th season earlier last year. The outdoor summer performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet, each of which drew some 2,000 people to the University of Nebraska’s Omaha campus, were heard clearly via Grund Audio Design’s Gala Series GA-4041NGS loudspeaker system and DP-26C processing.
Read More »AUSTIN, TX — More than 50 companies will be at the Renaissance Austin showing their latest wares this Wednesday (10am-6pm) and Thursday (10am-4pm), Feb. 22-23, 2012. More than 900 industry members have registered for the event.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands – TM Audio provided Museum Speelklok with the combination of audio quality and unobtrusive aethetics that it had been seeking with a IC Live system from Renkus-Heinz. The system, installed into the museum’s central performance space, which had formerly served as the nave for a church, includes four 8-channel ICL-R digitally steerable columns, mounted in one double stack per side, atop matching IC215 2×15″ self powered subwoofers.
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BOONVILLE, CA — Sacramento Production Services (SMS), which has been supporting the three-day Sierra Nevada World Music Festival here for 16 years, was the first to use Lab.gruppen’s PLM 20000Q amplifiers. SMS’ Keith Wackford and Dwaine Wise noted that, along with great sound, the amps helped sharply reduce the number of racks that SMS needed to use to support the event.
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JOLIET, IL — The entertainment and dining pavilion at Hollywood Casino Joliet, which includes the Hollywood Stadium stage, pictured here, was destroyed by a fire in March 2009. It has since been restored with an audio assist from a new K-array system including two KK200 arrays mounted to poles on either side of the stage, four KL108ma subwoofers mounted inside the stage and four KF12 self-powered monitors.
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RISSKOV, Denmark — With his first major label release, Behold, Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer is now breaking through as an international artist. Victory Tour Production helped bring the artist’s guitar-based ballads to a wider audience, providing DiGiCo SD11 consoles and Neumann digital microphones for Langer’s recent end-of-year European tour.
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CHICAGO — Sensaphonics reports that guitarist Adrian Belew has added Sensaphonics’ 3D Active Ambient IEM System, which uses an earphone-mounted binaural microphone system to capture stage sound and add it to the monitor mix, to his arsenal of gear.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus announced that its TechTalk webcasting program is attracting a growing number of viewers. Every week, PreSonus’ tech-heads get in front of the cameras to cover some of the most requested issues in pro audio and recording. The sessions include guest visits from musicians, engineers and producers, and viewers can ask questions via live chat and get a shot at winning a prize.
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