MONTREAL – Singer/songwriter Norah Jones is supporting her fourth studio album, The Fall, with a tour and performances on late night TV. The album, produced by Jacquire King, is a rock ‘n' roll departure from Jones' earlier work. But Jones' voice has not changed, and FOH engineer Brett Dicus continues to rely on Neumann gear for vocals and a backline of Sennheiser wired mics and wireless PMs.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – The 2010 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, held at the Alamodome, was the 10th annual East vs. West football match-up. Televised live on NBC, the game featured the top 90 high school football players in the U.S. Clearwing Productions supported the event with audio gear including a Yamaha PM5D-RH digital audio console.
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LAS VEGAS – The recession may have turned some of the high rollers on the Strip into bargain hunters, but not all of the big-spending visions from the mid-2000s got scrapped. CityCenter – a $4 billion project at its June 2006 ground-breaking and almost an $11 billion project at its December 2009 grand opening – stands as the largest privately-funded development in the U.S. The project also required a major investment in audio gear.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – HAS Productions has hired Dave Tennant as director of operations. Tennant started as a monitor engineer in the early 1990s and has worked big gigs including stints as technical director for the U.S. Army Entertainment Division, where he toured entertainment programs for the troops all over the world. He also served as technical director for all four properties owned by Cannery Casino Resorts before moving to HAS.
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Waves Audio is now shipping Vocal Rider, the first of Waves' series of new Mixing tools. Vocal Rider can be used by mixers and recording engineers to automatically ride the levels of vocal tracks, raising and lowering vocal volume.
Read More »KUNGSBACKA, Sweden – The TC Group has announced a restructuring that has resulted in the formation of a new organization known as TC Group International which will operate out of Aarhus in Denmark and Coatbridge, Scotland.
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EGG HARBOR CITY, NJ – Concert Quality Sound named Barry Friedman sales, rental and special projects manager. Friedman comes to CQS from the corporate event sector, where he was a project manager, coordinating audio services for company meetings and events. Prior to that, Friedman was an audio production manager for a regional sound company in the local area.
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HANOI, Vietnam – Fantasies Show Light, the Outline distributor for Vietnam, is also a rental company and provided gear for a New Year's concert at My Dinh National Stadium. The gear list an Outline vertical line array with of 32 Butterfly CDH 483 Hi-Packs with 16 SubTech 218 units.
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PITTSBURGH, PA – Duquesne University's renovated Union Ballroom has been equipped with two AX366 Arrayable Install loudspeakers from EAW, chosen by Hollowood Music and Sound for their ability to overcome the challenge of the room's split-ceiling design.
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Allen & Heath has added two new models to the iLive digital mixing series, the iDR-16 3U MixRack and iLive-R72 rack-mountable Control Surface. Together, they provide a space saving, lightweight digital live mixing system, bringing the same power, sonic performance and flexibility of the larger touring iLive systems to a significantly lower price point.
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BUENA PARK, CA – Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. (YCAS) recently held two product seminars for audio consultants and an AV Summit for rental houses and end users highlighting small- to mid-scale audio solutions.
Read More »LONDON – Only a lunatic would put a new loudspeaker system out on a tour with a rock opera like Quadrophenia, right? But for sound designer Jason Barnes, there was method to the madness for the production based on the album by the Who. For starters, he based his decision to go with the AXYS ScopeG2 as the FOH PA on a direct comparison between several sound systems.
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