INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA), which had conducted an investigation into possible workplace violations associated with the collapse of the main stage at the Indiana State Fair on Aug. 13, 2011, issued a report and levied more than $80,000 in fines against the staging company, the stagehand’s union and the state fair commission.
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LONDON — The reopened 800-capacity Islington Assembly Hall in London has selected an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system, including iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks with two iLive-T112 Control Surfaces, to manage both FOH and monitors.
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UNION, NJ – Union High School recently upgraded the 20-year old sound system at its football field, which also hosts track and field meets and commencement ceremonies, with One Systems direct weather loudspeakers. Scott Hibbard Audio Design & Engineering of Florham Park, NJ performed the design and installation of the 212CIM and 208CIM systems for the school.
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LISBON, Portugal — Meyer Sound has announced Miguel Lourtie as the new European Technical Services Manager. In his new position, Lourtie will supervise the company’s technical support team in Europe and assume primary responsibility for sales support and design services in the region.
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ANAHEIM, CA — At Winter NAMM 2012, Harman’s Lexicon announced the availability of the individual plug-ins from its PCM Native Effects and PCM Native Reverb Bundles. A total of 14 plugins are available including Pitch Shift, MultiVoice Pitch, Chorus, Resonant Chords, Random Delay, Dual Delay, Stringbox, Vintage Plate, Plate, Hall, Room, Random Hall, Concert Hall and Chamber.
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The PowerHOUSE Doghouse portable power distribution box from Lex Products has a compact, sturdy, portable and stackable design especially well-suited for use in convention centers for trade show displays, portable lights, audio equipment and light tools. The design allows for multiple boxes to be strung along one power feed to provide convenient 20 Amp duplex power.
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COPENHAGEN — The Danish arm of KPMG, a worldwide accounting and consulting firm, makes a bold statement through its new 33,000-square-meter headquarters building in Copenhagen designed by architects 3XN. As part of the building architecture characterized by three interlocking polygons, KPMG’s auditorium features a virtually invisible system of Meyer Sound MM-4XP miniature self-powered loudspeakers to ensure intelligibility for company presentations.
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Roland Systems Group announced a new firmware update for their S-4000 Series digital snake systems that lets the S-4000H 8×32 digital snake head support samples rates of 48 and 44.1 kHz, in addition to 96kHz. This enables the unit to be used in V-Mixing System configurations, and as an analog breakout box.
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WROCLAW, Poland — ESS Audio is working on sound systems at a number of different soccer stadiums in Poland, including the PGE Arena in Gdansk and, more recently, the 42,000-capacity Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw. Much of the audio gear was manufactured by Harman.
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ANAHEIM, CA – Michael Bell of Bell Event Services provided audio support for the “Wanna Play?” stage at the 2012 Winter NAMM show. The stage featured Community loudspeakers and subwoofers, powered by Ashly’s KLR-4000 amplifiers. The stage takes its name from NAMM’s “Wanna Play?” campaign, which encourages people of all ages and backgrounds to take up a musical instrument and perform. Last year, the “Wanna Play?” stage used a similar Ashly/Community configuration.
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AMSTERDAM — AKG introduced a new version of its WMS470 wireless system with revised operating frequencies for the European market at ISE 2012. WMS470 Band 10 operates on frequencies between 823 and 832 MHz known as the “duplex gap.” This frequency range lies between the areas that will be used for upcoming high-speed Internet service for mobile devices. As such, the new version of WMS470 is geared for interference-free operation well into the future.
Read More »DUBAI, UAE — Rational Acoustics LLC named NMK Electronics distributor for all Rational Acoustics and Smaart-branded products for the Middle East. NMK’s territory encompasses the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon.
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