NEW YORK – A few blocks away, shivering New Years revelers were waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square. Lou Mannarino from L&M Sound and Light, meanwhile, relied upon a K-array system to make sure he didn't drop the ball for another celebration; The New Year's Eve Concert at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall featuring the New York Philharmonic.
Read More »VANCOUVER, BC – Audio-Technica microphones enabled NBC to capture audio for the 5.1 surround sound broadcast during coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 12 to 28, 2010.
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PEEKSKILL, NY – The Paramount Center for the Performing Arts, originally built as a 1,500-seat movie palace, opened in 1930 and prospered through the Great Depression and World War II, but fell on hard times during the post-war boom and was sold by Paramount in 1973.
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NEW YORK – The View, ABC Daytime's Emmy award-winning talk show featuring Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd, kicked off its current season with a new set design and revamped sound system for its studio audience.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. – Soundcraft has released its Vi1, a console that offers Vi Series sound quality, the Vistonics user interface, the Lexicon FX and the BSS EQs, but in a much smaller shell and at one-third the price. The Vi1 is just over a meter wide and includes 16 motorized channel faders with fixed and user-definable layers, 8 output/VCA faders and 2 master faders.
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WAYNE, PA – Nearly 300 years old, St. David's Episcopal Church has gained new intelligibility with a Martin Audio OmniLine array, specified by HOW design/installation specialists Spinnaker Multimedia Solutions.
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ST. LOUIS, MO – Spectra Audio Systems provided a recently-acquired Turbosound Flex Array for the electronic music-infused Winter Warpdrive, held at the Roberts Orpheum Theater.
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ALBANY, OR – Even though St. Mary's Catholic Church only required one or two mics for most of its services, the church was bedeviled with problems ranging from an unforgiving reverberant space to improper loudspeaker placement. Delta AV system engineers Steve Jellerson and Kurt Bevers addressed the problem with a Symetrix Automix Matrix 780 fixed-architecture DSP, an AMX touchscreen interface and some properly-positioned and tuned loudspeakers.
Read More »MUMBAI, India – SIA Acoustics, an acoustical design and facility planning firm with offices in New York, N.Y. and Hollywood, Calif., is opening an office in Mumbai, India to help the company serve customers in India with their acoustics, technical systems and facility design needs.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – College Hill Productions supplied live sound for the recent Big Day Out music festival, which featured performances by Lily Allen, The Mars Volta, Jet, Kasabian, The Decemberists and Fear Factory.
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BRNO, Czech Republic – Audioblue used an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for a Mass held during a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city.
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BURBANK, CA – Electrosonic named Paul Brown, a 20-year veteran working for companies such as Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies, general manager of service for Electrosonic's European office in Dartford, England. Brown also operated a consulting company that provided services to Verigy, following its spin-off from Agilent Technologies.
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