NEW YORK — TimbreTech Audio Services designed and integrated Harman gear into the sound system at Santos Party House, supporting the club’s DJ and live performances. Jim Toth designed a live system around a Soundcraft Vi6 console at FOH can be locked off and run remotely via a laptop in the DJ Booth when one of a host of top DJs is performing in the house.
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MONTREAL — After more than 15 years off the road, singer-songwriter-poet Leonard Cohen and his nine-piece band, led by bassist Roscoe Beck, are touring the world. Solotech is providing support for the tour, using a Meyer Sound system featuring MILO and MICA line array loudspeakers.
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Allen & Heath recently launched a new compact digital mixing system. Called the iLive-T Series, the system offers many of the features of iLive in a compact, lower-cost package. The T Series comprises the fixed I/O iDR-32 and iDR-48 MixRacks and iLive-T80 and iLive-T112 Surface options with remote CAT5 connection. Each rack can be used with either control surface, and all models will be compatible with the existing iLive units.
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WorxAudio Technologies, a leading manufacturer of loudspeaker systems for the pro touring and install markets is now shipping its TrueLine Series TL215S-P bass loudspeaker system. The systems features a compact form factor that is designed for both touring sound and fixed installations.
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Rational Acoustics LLC’s Noise Stick, an acoustic test and and measurement product, does one thing: generate pink noise. It requires no batteries and no configuration. It does not even have a power switch. Users simply plug it into a phantom-powered microphone input, and it will generate pink noise. Unplug it, and it stops.
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LONDON — Insync Productions generated 3,491,000 watts of sound for the wide range of shows on which they were responsible for AV production, much of it pumped out through Martin Audio sound reinforcement systems.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — For the Kanye West “Glow in the Dark” tour — which also featured performances by Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna, N.E.R.D, and Nas — Stage Audio Productions relied on AKG wireless technologies including the WMS 4000 wireless system and the IVM 4 in ear monitoring system. The year-long tour visited 40 cities on six continents.
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KUNGSBACKA, Sweden — Lab.gruppen has announced its acquisition of the Lake trademarks and the exclusive rights for use of Dolby® Lake® Processor (DLP) technology for both Touring and Permanent Sound Reinforcement markets, from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Pictured here, from left: Carl Rohdell, Håkan Gustafsson, Tomas Lilja, Emil Tirén and Klas Dalbjörn.
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FOXBOROUGH, MA —NFL’s New England Patriots’ Hall at Patriot Place, adjacent to Gillette Stadium, has an array of interactive and immersive multimedia exhibits and an AV system engineered, installed and supplied by Electrosonic. The installation in the 36,000-square-foot facility, which includes sensor-triggered audio tracks, was project-managed by Gary Barnes. “The results were incredible,” he said
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TORONTO — Score Media Inc. recently went live with a new multi-million dollar studio for their sports network, available in 6.4 million homes. The technical operations staff selected Lectrosonics wireless systems for their programs, which include Court Surfing (NBA highlights) and The Score Tonight sports news program. The gear was purchased through Trew Audio, and the Toronto office of Applied Electronics handled installation of the equipment.
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LONDON — Twickenham Stadium, England’s National Rugby Team stadium, recently raising its seating capacity from 75,000 to 82,000 and updated its audio system as well using D.A.S. sound systems. Sysco performed the upgrade, led by Hugo Roche. Roland Hemming, an audio consultant and job project manager who also works for D.A.S., was also involved with the project. Hemming also works for D.A.S. Audio’s distributor for the U.K., Sennheiser UK.
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MILWAUKEE — Supporting their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic, Metallica is hitting arenas across the U.S. and Canada in an in-the-round production that includes Apogee X-Series converters for both A/D and D/A conversion. Thunder Audio of Taylor, Mich. chose an all-digital drive system setup with eight Apogee converters for 64 channels of I/O.
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