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Harman Gear Dominates Massive CityCenter Audio Investment

Harman Gear Dominates Massive CityCenter Audio Investment

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.

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HAS Productions Names Dave Tennant Director of Operations

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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CQS Names Friedman Sales, Rental and Special Projects Manager

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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Allen & Heath iLive-R72

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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Quadrophenia Tours U.K. with AXYS G2

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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UNF Theater Equipped with D.A.S. Audio Gear

Richard Stanford with D.A.S. gear

JACKSONVILLE, FL – The University of North Florida's Andrew A. Robinson Theatre, which hosts lectures, presentations, small theater, film showings and music performances, needed a multipurpose sound system, and UNF Fine Arts Center technology director Richard Stanford found one with a new Variant setup from D.A.S. Audio.

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