BALTIMORE — The Church of the Redeemer, which dates from 1858, features soaring ceilings and ornate wood and glass. Like other 19th century structures, it can take your breath away — but it can also hinder intelligibility and musical performances for listeners in the back pews with a reverb of well over a second.
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ATLANTA — Turner Field, home to the Atlanta Braves, was updated for its most recent season with more than 400 weatherproof Danley loudspeakers. The speakers featured customized rigging and coverage patterns to fit in the old speakers’ positions.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA — Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, the country music duo called Sugarland, have been touring North America with their band, using more than three-dozen channels of Sennheiser wireless vocal microphone, personal monitor and instrument systems.
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SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe theater produces 15 plays and musicals on its three stages each year and is currently hosting Sammy, based upon the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. John Shivers and David Patridge designed the production’s sound.
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BERLIN — For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Riedel Communications delivered a comprehensive audio, video and communications distribution network for the multiple stages and video walls used at the event and the various departments.
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LONDON — Outline’s Butterfly VLA was again requested by both the BBC and London’s Roundhouse for the 2009 Electric Proms season, which featured Robbie Williams backed by a 34-piece orchestra plus his own touring band on opening night. Producer Trevor Horn was playing bass and directing the band.
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LONDON — FOH engineer Russell Fischer and monitor mixer Andrea “Vito” Carena had no qualms about using Audio-Technica’s 5000 Series wireless system for Taylor Swift’s Fearless tour for frontline and backing vocals.
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BOSTON — The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, a landmark since the Roaring Twenties, has been inducted as a member of the Historic Hotels of America. But the sound system used for its six sizable ballrooms was a source of frustration to the hotel staff.
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PHILADELPHIA — Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, recently enhanced its sound system with custom loudspeakers from EAW. Coffeen Fricke and Associates, Inc. chose the EAW gear, which was sold by Audio Associates. The Large Projects Group of the A/V integration company AVI-SPL performed the installation.
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HELSINKI, Finland — Systems contractor Pertti Krautsuk of Workland specified eight of JBL Professional’s CBT100LA column enclosures as part of the sound system for the Latokartano Sports Hall.
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BELFAST — Lisburn-based Zest Audio has recently completed the installation of a Community sound system for the demonstration facilities of Lightstep Technologies at their Belfast headquarters. Lightstep works to simulate life-threatening situations so people have a better chance of surviving if they are unfortunate enough to ever face the real thing.
Read More »OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG announced that it would be moving its Klein + Hummel branded products under the Sennheiser and Neumann brands by the end of the year, effectively phasing out the K + H brand. Volker Bartels, a spokesman for the Sennheiser executive team, made the announcement.
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