POTTERS BAR, U.K. – Soundcraft has released its Vi1, a console that offers Vi Series sound quality, the Vistonics user interface, the Lexicon FX and the BSS EQs, but in a much smaller shell and at one-third the price. The Vi1 is just over a meter wide and includes 16 motorized channel faders with fixed and user-definable layers, 8 output/VCA faders and 2 master faders.
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WAYNE, PA – Nearly 300 years old, St. David's Episcopal Church has gained new intelligibility with a Martin Audio OmniLine array, specified by HOW design/installation specialists Spinnaker Multimedia Solutions.
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ST. LOUIS, MO – Spectra Audio Systems provided a recently-acquired Turbosound Flex Array for the electronic music-infused Winter Warpdrive, held at the Roberts Orpheum Theater.
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ALBANY, OR – Even though St. Mary's Catholic Church only required one or two mics for most of its services, the church was bedeviled with problems ranging from an unforgiving reverberant space to improper loudspeaker placement. Delta AV system engineers Steve Jellerson and Kurt Bevers addressed the problem with a Symetrix Automix Matrix 780 fixed-architecture DSP, an AMX touchscreen interface and some properly-positioned and tuned loudspeakers.
Read More »MUMBAI, India – SIA Acoustics, an acoustical design and facility planning firm with offices in New York, N.Y. and Hollywood, Calif., is opening an office in Mumbai, India to help the company serve customers in India with their acoustics, technical systems and facility design needs.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – College Hill Productions supplied live sound for the recent Big Day Out music festival, which featured performances by Lily Allen, The Mars Volta, Jet, Kasabian, The Decemberists and Fear Factory.
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BRNO, Czech Republic – Audioblue used an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system for a Mass held during a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city.
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BURBANK, CA – Electrosonic named Paul Brown, a 20-year veteran working for companies such as Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies, general manager of service for Electrosonic's European office in Dartford, England. Brown also operated a consulting company that provided services to Verigy, following its spin-off from Agilent Technologies.
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DENVER – Pathways Church's Temple Event Center couldn't budget for a total sound system upgrade, but Summit Integrated Systems was able to achieve a significantly improvement in output, fidelity and imaging via Danley SH-96 loudspeakers and T-115 subwoofers.
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EAW's Large-Format Dual-18-Inch-Loaded Subwoofer has been designed to meet the needs of sound reinforcement companies and contractors looking for a non-flown version of EAW's SB1002 subwoofer. The successor to EAW's SB1000, the new SB1001 is essentially an SB1002 Large Format Flyable Subwoofer without the rigging hardware.
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MILFORD, NH – Pianist/arranger/conductor Randy Waldman is finding that the Earthworks PM40 PianoMic System lets him spend more time arranging, producing, recording and live performances and less time worrying about how the piano is miked.
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AMSTERDAM – The Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show reported 28,489 attendees at the 2010 trade show, a 14 percent gain from 2009. For DiGiCo, the show ended with three more of SD8 mixing consoles added to the inventories of Dutch rental companies.
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