SAN FRANCISCO — The May 8 auction of Grateful Dead memorabilia, including pioneering audio gear collected by Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff, the band’s longtime road manager, brought in more than $1.1 million for the estate.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Since releasing their debut album Costello Music last autumn, the Glasgow band The Fratellis have been promoting it with live dates. Helping them on their way has been Turbosound, whose NuQ loudspeakers have played a major part in the band’s recent UK tour.
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COSTA MESA, CA — The QSC Wideline-8 is a compact, high output line array speaker system. It measures less than 20 inches (508 mm) wide and nine inches (229 mm) high. Each tri-amplified WideLine-8 element uses a pair of neodymium magnet, eight-inch low-frequency drivers.
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BERLIN, GERMANY — The musical Daddy Cool kicked off its European tour with a 10-week run in Berlin, which opened on April 26 in the show's 2000-seat big top tent in central Berlin. Richard Brooker designed the sound, supported by associate sound designer Tom Marshall, with the original system for the London production adapted to the requirements of the tour.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Executives from InfoComm International and NXTcomm plan to co-locate their tradeshows and conferences, InfoComm and NXTcomm, in 2008 with the intention of co-locating future events. The events will be held in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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BURNSVILLE, MN — The Electro-Voice ZXA5 powered two-way loudspeaker includes a 500-watt DVX3150 15-inch transducer. Handling the HF is the ND2, a two-inch voice coil compression driver based on a neodymium motor structure. The ND2’s phasing plug and titanium diaphragm are meant to provide better HF performance, while the integral heatsink provides cooling for high power output.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Salt Lake City’s LDS Conference Center has taken a recent installation of an L-ACOUSTICS dV-DOSC loudspeaker system. First opened in the spring of 2000, the 1.4 million-square-foot Conference Center is home to the semi-annual LDS General Conference, which packs in a full house and is broadcast worldwide out to 12 million people. Each Sunday the Center hosts a performance by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir — a weekly rite now in its 77th year.
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LISBON, PORTUGAL — The Hard Rock Café in Lisbon is located in the center of the city. The interior design is similar to that of others in the chain, with collector’s items of rock history hanging on the walls, such as autographed guitars, gold and platinum albums and stage clothing, but while most Hard Rock Cafés have their sound and lighting equipment installed by an American company, the Lisbon affiliate decided to have the Portuguese HK Audio distributor ALRICA Lda install its sound system.
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NEW YORK — San Francisco-based sound artist Bill Fontana has completed a sound sculpture entitled Panoramic Echoes in New York City’s Madison Square Park. The sonic art project uses four Meyer Sound SB-1 parabolic long-throw sound beams to project sounds into the park from distant buildings in multiple directions.
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FOH TV's coverage of the Rockboat Cruise. We give you a little face time with Andy Levine of Sixthman, for some backstage talk that didn't… Read More »Rockboat Cruise Interview – Andy Levine
Read More »WASHINGTON, DC — Harman International Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HAR), parent company to the Harman Professional Group whose brands include JBL, Lexicon, BSS, AKG, dbx, Soundcraft and Crown, announced April 26 that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (GSCP) in a transaction valued at approximately $8 billion. The transaction was unanimously approved by the Harman board of directors.
Read More »WASHINGTON — Harman International Industries, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &… Read More »Harman International to be Acquired by KKR, GS Capital Partners
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