INDIO, CA — More than 200,000 fans attended the back-to-back Coachella Music and Arts and Stagecoach Country Music Festivals. Standout performances at the two multi-stage events included two and a half hours with Paul McCartney and sets by Leonard Cohen, Brad Paisley, Kid Rock and more than 150 other artists.
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SACRAMENTO, CA — The Vietnamese Martyr’s Catholic Church (VMCC) has installed a Renkus-Heinz Iconyx digitally steerable audio system for its 900-seat sanctuary, with a CFX121 system covering the Great Hall that’s used as an overflow area for larger meetings and performances.
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FLORENCE, SC — With a full-fledged praise band at the heart of its expanding music program, Gospel Temple Worship Center, led by senior pastors Timothy and Becky Howell, called upon Templeton Sound Systems, Orangeburg, S.C., for the audio system at its new facility with a system featuring line arrays, subwoofers and stage monitors from WorxAudio Technologies.
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Heil Sound has introduced the PR 20 UT (Utility), a low-cost version of the PR 20. Specifications and performance characteristics are identical to the PR 20: wide frequency range, the ability to handle +140 dB SPL, -35 dB of rear rejection and natural articulation. The difference is a stripped down packaging scheme, putting the UT in the price range of any musician, recordist or sound company. The PR 20 UT microphone is suitable for live vocal and instrument applications. MSRP: $115.
Read More »Carey Stewart Kress, 58, died at home April 15, 2009 after a hard-fought battle with pancreatic cancer. After enjoying a performance career in the 1970s and 1980s as a musician/lead singer for the rock band, Face Dancer, Kress developed an extensive Mid-Atlantic territory as a manufacturers rep. He worked in the professional audio industry for more than two decades and served as a rep for Sigmet Corp. for 10 years.
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MARIETTA, GA — The 450-seat sanctuary at East West Church underwent a renovation recently, with an overhaul to everything from the audio system to the carpet underfoot, and the church brought in Scott Oliver with Nashville-based Pro Audio Solutions in their mission to achieve the “bigness” in sound quality and fidelity they were looking for in a sound system.
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BOCA RATON, FL — ACME Sound Partners and Syntonic Design Group provided the DiGiCo D5 for FOH input/outputs and Concert Systems Production Group showcased its new SD8 for onstage monitors for Florida Festival of the Arts’ 10-day celebration of classical music, jazz and literature. The event featured a performance by violinist Itzhak Perlman, 50 years after his U.S. debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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ATLANTA — Saint Philip A.M.E. Church in Atlanta, aided by design/installation firm, Communications & Entertainment Inc., has installed an Allen & Heath iLive-176 system at FOH of the 2,500 seat main Sanctuary and an iLive-80 system in the Broadcast room.
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BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound has announced that the company will release high-resolution measurement data for its loudspeakers in the GLL (Generic Loudspeaker Library) format, enabling users of EASE design and simulation software to model the interaction of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker systems with the acoustics of rooms.
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RackTools 3.5, the free layout and specification software package that includes all products from Middle Atlantic, has been updated to save users time. The changes include new shapes for user-defined components and additional drawing export flexibility.
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The DMI-8, an eight-channel version of the digital microphone interface, is now available from Neumann, which is designed to simplify setup for studio or live PA systems. The eight-channel version also offers AES 42 to EBU conversion, the ability to synchronize the mics without a sample rate converter, automatic word clock or AES 11 synchronization, an ability to handle sample rates from 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz and control and storage of the settings via Mac or PC. (The DMI-8 is pictured here with a Mac.)
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Danley Sound Labs’ SH-64 is designed as a standalone system for applications requiring high-SPL and low distortion. Danley said the SH-64 incorporates nine drivers in a single horn enclosure. Comprising four 15-inch woofers, four 4-inch mid-frequency drivers and a single 1.4-inch high frequency driver in a new enclosure, Danley touts the SH-64’s fidelity, low-frequency pattern control and magnitude/phase response.
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