LONDON – Ellie Goulding is touring the European festival circuit with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 compact Control Surface managing monitors. Monitor engineer Steve Pattison uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check and move around the venue during the show.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Electrosound handled all the sound production for the main stage and sound distribution for the TV-4 OB truck during the June wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden with longtime partner Daniel Westling.
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NEWBURY, U.K. – Graham Blake, monitor engineer for Simply Red's worldwide farewell tour, is using the Midas XL8 live performance system. The tour provided Blake, who had completed the training with Midas' brand development manager Richard Ferriday some eight months earlier, with an opportunity to use the XL8 on the road for the first time.
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MANHATTAN, KS – First Assembly of God Church recently renovated their sanctuary with design and installation services provided by MSM Systems (Lawrence, KS). The church makeover included complete audio, video, lighting and acoustic systems.
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ZWAAG, The Netherlands – Alcons Audio announced that its Architect Colour Option (ACO) loudspeaker systems can be ordered in more than 180 different RAL colours, the standard European architectural color matching system.
Read More »NEW YORK – Rob "Wacko" Hunter, who has served as Branford Marsalis' recording and live sound engineer since the mid 1990s, has been using a variety of Earthworks microphones for the artist's live and recorded performances.
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NEW YORK – It may not be as creepy or as kooky as a pet giant squid named Beatrice, but the Broadway musical adaptation of The Addams Family, which opened this year at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, includes a DiGiCo SD7T console, part of the audio system and sound design from Acme Sound Partners.
Read More »CONCHO, OK – High winds are being blamed for ripping down a tent, injuring six crew members and causing extensive damage to gear on the afternoon prior to a July 6 show featuring Peter Frampton and Yes. None of the injuries were life-threatening, but two crew members were hospitalized, one with a broken leg.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – The three-day Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival drew more than 100,000 to the Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran (JIE) to hear a variety of performances including jazz, soul, hip-hop, rock, Latino and world fusion music. Sumber Ria Sound included EAW KF Series line arrays for the sound system.
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INDIANOLA, IA – The skies were cloudy and the weather was chilly, but that didn't keep 25,000 metal fans from converging on Indianola's National Balloon Classic Field for this year's metal-infused Lazerfest. Sure Sound supported the event with Renkus-Heinz gear.
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WILMINGTON, DE – Naamans Creek Audio/Video updated the sound system at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church with Community Professional's Entasys three-way full range column array loudspeakers.
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PAPHOS, Cyprus – After many years of serving the busy festival season on Cyprus, Riccos Sound and Light has made the move to go digital. The company opted for an Digidesign Profile mix rack system, guided by the supplier of the console, SSE Audio Group's Alex Penn.
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