CLEVELAND, OH – The second staging of the teen musical, 13, at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory, proved lucky for both the teens involved in the show and the gear-makers involved in the production, who used the three-week run as a hands-on open house opportunity for engineers from community theatres, schools and houses of worship in the area.
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BOSTON – Comics Come Home, an annual comedy benefit show that has been staged for 16 years, was presented at the Agannis Arena on Nov. 13, 2010. Rainbow Productions Services / New England Audio Tech of Atkinson, N.H. provided an all-Meyer Sound system for the fund-raising event, which benefits the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care.
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MADRID – Named "Best Live Act" at the 2010 European Music Awards earlier this month, Linkin Park's band members invited the crew, including FOH & Monitor engineers "Pooch" Van Druten and "Tater" McCarthy, up on stage. Along with Van Druten and McCarthy, the band has been touring with gear from Adamson and plug-ins from Waves.
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LONDON – When Broadway's Fela! moved to London's National Theatre on the South Bank recently, Tony Award-winning sound designer Robert Kaplowitz took advantage of the auditorium's vastly different form to rework his original soundscape, with a Studer Vista 5 digital console for control.
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MORRISON, CO – Ryan Knutson, co-founder of Brown Note Productions, Inc., can claim the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre as his local venue – and recently capped off his sixth year supporting Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9) as FOH engineer with a final show for the band's most recent tour at the iconic outdoor venue.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA – Providing the greater Los Angeles area with a unique twist on the late night movie, Hollywood Outdoor Movies (HOM) relies on JBL VRX loudspeakers to entertain thousands by displaying feature films on a giant portable outdoor movie screen.
Read More »TOKYO – Adamson named Matsuda Trading Corporation (MTC Japan) its exclusive distributor in Japan. MTC also represents Lab.gruppen, Turbosound and Tannoy, and currently lists Adamson as their pro speaker brand.
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Heil Sound's PR 31 BW came about after Bob Workman, who mixes FOH for the Charlie Daniels Band, called Bob Heil and asked if it would be okay for him to cut the chassis of his PR 30 in half.
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Clear-Com Eclipse Version 5.2 uses Eclipse Configuration Software (ECS) with a simplified graphical user interface designed to ease configuration and management and result in faster and more efficient communications workflow.
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Lab.gruppen's PLM 20000Q is the new flagship of the PLM Series of Powered Loudspeaker Managements systems. The new PLM 20000Q seamlessly integrates two full-featured modules of Lake Processing with four channels of power amplification, each rated at 5000 watts output. Along with powerful output capacity, the four-channel amplifier is housed in a 2U chassis weighing 37 lbs.
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MONTERREY, Mexico – For the Latin American leg of Spanish pop star David Bisbal's tour in support of Sin Mar Atras, monitor engineer Alberto Liras, who has used DiGiCo D5s and an SD8 on previous tours, decided to switch to a DiGiCo SD9 console, supplied by DiGiCo's Spanish distributor Meyer Sound España.
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VALENCIA, CA – ATK Audiotek recently instituted a new system design approach revolving around a single type of power amplifier to drive all types and brands of speakers, and purchased 450 Powersoft DIGAM K10 AESOP-equipped amplifiers to drive its inventory of JBL VerTec speaker systems along with other brands of speakers.
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