BURBANK, CA — Royer Labs ribbon microphones, widely used in recording studios, are stepping out on the road as well. A case in point is their use by Maroon 5 for their most recent tour through North and South America, South Africa and Dubai, UAE, where the band and FOH engineer Jim Ebdon used Royer’s R-121 Live ribbon microphones.
Read More »CLEVELAND, MS — Peavey Electronics has endowed a major musical-equipment grant totaling $60,000 to support curricula at the Delta Music Institute, a center for interdisciplinary studies in the music and entertainment industries at Delta State University.
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SPRINGDALE, AR — The Northwest Arkansas Naturals baseball team may have been the relocated Texas League/Double-A affiliate for the Kansas City Royals, but officials wanted to give their new home team a major-league welcome with a new ballpark that opened in 2008.
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ADAIR, OK —Dry Gulch USA, a year-round Western-themed attraction owned by Church on the Move of Tulsa, isn’t always as dry as its name suggests. So Stephen Arruda, the attraction’s AV coordinator, made sure that the new Technomad Berlin and Vernal loudspeakers used outdoors for PA announcements and musical performances would be able to stand up to more than a few drops of rain.
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MASON, Ohio — The weekly services at Christ’s Church have distinctly different styles — traditional, contemporary and blended. The church’s 1,300-seat sanctuary was recently renovated with a new sound system to handle the contemporary and blended services, and a smaller chapel was built to handle the traditional service.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts has recently upgraded the audio system used for nine of its performance spaces with Soundcraft and Studer digital mixing consoles.
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CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY — Ransdell Chapel at Campbellsville University, an 800-seat chapel complex on campus serving the 2,500 students, had a sound system that “was a poor design from the beginning,” according to Doug Price, the university’s audio and visual services coordinator.
Read More »LUTON, U.K. — With its coffers refreshed by a recent investment by China-based Soundking Group Company Ltd., Cadac Holdings Ltd. is getting ready to unveil a range of new products at Prolight + Sound 2009, which takes place in Frankfurt, Germany from April 1-4.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR — Whirlwind has added Audinate’s Dante networking technology to its PXP (Protocol eXchange Platform) line of products. The PXP, Whirlwind’s first Dante-enabled product, allows users to convert digital audio signals on Dante networks to and from other networking formats. There is no loss of audio quality because no D/A or A/D conversions are required. Dante-based PXPs are available now from Whirlwind.
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Shure has expanded its SM line of microphones with the SM27, which replaces the KSM27, and the SM137, which replaces the KSM109. The SM27 is a large-diaphragm, side-address cardioid condenser microphone with a one-inch Mylar diaphragm for transient response, low frequency reproduction and a low self-noise — just 9.5 dB SPL. The SM137 is a cardioid probe microphone for instrument recording applications.
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MIAMI —This year’s Orange Bowl football game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Cincinnati Bearcats was cranked up a notch by the halftime show featuring the Doobie Brothers, who performed before 75,000 in the stadium and millions more viewing the televised event at home.
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CHICAGO — Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation, Inc. founder and president Michael Santucci, Au.D., has been named to the board of trustees of the American Academy of Audiology Foundation (AAAF).
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