KIRKLAND, WA — With a congregation of about 7,000 worshippers spread over six locations, City Church opted to connect its main Kirkland campus with its other locations via satellite, enabling live broadcasts. Designer Justin Friesen created a networked audio solution based around Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing consoles supplied by Lift AV in Renton, WA, and GC Pro in Seattle.
Read More »MUNICH — Promising the first fully-synchronous CAT5 media streaming system for streaming uninterrupted media in real time, Optocore has introduced SANE (Synchronous Audio Network plus Ethernet), a new digital audio networking protocol.
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NEW BEDFORD, MA — Some of the costumes and set elements for the two-week run of The Producers at the New Bedford Festival Theatre this summer may have been the same as those used for the Tony-award-winning Broadway production starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, but the sound was definitely new, with Jason Choquette using DiGiCo’s SD8 console as a key part of the production’s sound system design.
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FLORENCE, Italy — Powersoft named Thomas Mittelmann Business evelopment Manager. Mittelman’s experience includes nearly eight years with Lab.gruppen.
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READING, U.K. and LEEDS, U.K. — Adlib Audio’s festival season continued at Reading and Leeds, where the company once again supplied full audio production, including over 90 JBL VerTec 4889 elements, and crew for the Radio 1/NME stage at the 2009 events. Identical systems were supplied to both Reading and Leeds sites.
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LONDON. — 5 Star Cases Ltd. helped celebrate the making of the 500th SD8 digital console by donating the flightcase to DiGiCo for a special occasion honoring the memory of two sound engineers, John Roden and Jim Douglas.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Directors has announced that Dennis DeYoung will be hosting the Parnelli Awards Nov. 20 in Orlando. DeYoung wrote and performed “Come Sail Away,” “Babe," "Lady" and many other hits for Styx, and he also played a key role in the band’s themed albums and theatrical and visually groundbreaking shows.
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A new swivel bracket extends the flexibility of Alcons LR7 micro pro-ribbon line-array system. With its new swivel yoke, up to five LR7 cabinets in stand-configuration and up to seven LR7 cabinets in flown configuration can be stand- or truss-mounted with the new BRK5LR7 unit.
Read More »LONDON — Klark Teknik has signed agreements with AuviTran and ZP Engineering to make SuperMAC and HyperMAC technology available to the audio industry without having to pay royalties on an ongoing basis.
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CARDIFF, U.K. — Part of Wales’ University of Glamorgan, the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries’ division of Music and Sound is using EAW JFL Series units to educate music and technology students on live sound reproduction and professional audio equipment application. A.C. Entertainment Technologies supplied the system. The gear includes four EAW JFL210 Compact Line Array Modules and four EAW JFL118 Subwoofers.
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NOTRE DAME, IN — Engineers from Bartlett Microphones recently ran a live comparison between their TM-125 stage-floor microphone and the PCC-160, a mic they designed several years ago for Crown. The setting for the shootout was the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Known for its sound, lighting, video, and rigging, Solotech will open the doors of its new Las Vegas office with an open house event on Sept. 25, 2009. The event is set for 5 to 9 p.m. at the expanded location: Solotech US, Inc.; 7465 Dean Martin Drive, Suite108; Las Vegas, NV 89139; Phone: 702.614.8882; Fax: 702.614.8883.
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