COLTON, OR — Neutrik USA donated several of its A Series combo receptacles and its NYS-SPP-L1 patch panel to Colton High School, helping the school stage events in its adjacent auditorium and gymnasium.
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ATLANTA — Coweta County administrators in suburban Atlanta are using three Technomad Turnkey PA systems for the county’s Fairgrounds and Conference Center, including two recently-installed 70-volt Turnkey systems for 6,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space within the conference center.
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SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The Maritim Sharm El Sheikh International Congress Center, located at this Red Sea resort, has a 2,000-capacity main conference hall that was recently equipped with a Renkus-Heinz ICONYX Digitally Steerable Array loudspeaker system. The project was carried out by Cairo-based TECO (Telecommunications Engineering Consultant Office).
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AMMAN, Jordan — Events AVP, distributor of Outline gear in Jordan, supported the needs of a mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at Amman International Stadium, which drew 50,000 worshippers and was accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra and 200-voice choir using Butterfly vertical line arrays.
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TUCSON, AZ — Every year, a local radio station sponsors the KFMADAY festival at Tucson Electric Park, spring training site for the Arizona Diamondbacks. This year, over 15,000 came to hear KoRn and other metal bands including Hollywood Undead, Escape the Fate, Amberlin, Red and others. Soundwave Audio provided Martin Audio and other gear.
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DAYTONA BEACH, FL — For over 40 years, the Daytona Beach International Festival (DBIF) has welcomed the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), and for this year’s LSO Pops Concert, “A Celebration of Speed,” Syntonic Design Group provided a DiGiCo D5 for FOH.
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LOS ANGELES — Buckcherry guitarist Stevie D. and his guitar technician Dean Mitchell are using on a wireless setup from Lectrosonics for their current U.S. and European tour in support of their latest album, Black Butterfly.
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WAUNAKEE, WI — The 7th Annual Full Compass Golf Event benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County brought some 120 golfers to The Meadows of Sixmile Creek, raising $8,850.
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ROME — Italian audio system provider Madema SpA deployed a multi-array VerTec DP Series powered line array system at the Primo Maggio. The free annual event, coinciding with Italy’s Labor Day, is held in Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in front of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, a church that dates back to 313 A.D.
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LONDON —Paolo Nutini’s two-week U.K. tour was supported by a dual Midas PRO6 system provided by Britannia Row. Nutini’s FOH engineer Graham “Hutch” Hutchinson and monitor engineer Tom Howat, who was also mixing support band The Panics, used the PRO6s with additional supports appearing on the tour.
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ORLANDO —DiGiCo announced plans to feature recent additions to its digital console line at the 2009 InfoComm show, including the CS-D5, SD7 and SD8 consoles, which use DiGiCo’s Stealth Processing engine.
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ALACHUA, FL — In a bid to address DTV/White Spaces problems, Sabine is now shipping its SWM6000 Smart Spectrum™ Wireless Microphone Systems, which the company calls “immune to a whole host of problems associated with the recent dramatic shrinkage of available UHF frequencies.”
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