BERLIN — The Berlin Waldbühne, one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe, has strict sightline rules. For a recent performance of the German Symphony Orchestra’s concert of famous Disney film melodies, it was not possible to use loudspeaker arrays above the stage that were tall enough to cover the entire venue’s capacity of 20,000. To solve this issue, L-Acoustics’ L-ISA live system was deployed.
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MONTREAL — Sound system provider Solotech supplied Yamaha Digital Audio Consoles for the 17 stages during the 37th Montreal Jazz Festival (MJF), which ran from June 29 to July 9. Twelve of the stages featuring them at both FOH and monitors. MJF is held at the Place des Festivals in downtown Montreal with close to 50 concerts daily. More music can be found in local bars, boats, and other miscellaneous venues. Concertgoers could travel from event-to-event, as all ‘outdoor’ concerts were free of charge. Performers included Brian Wilson, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Christian McBride, Chick Corea and Joe Jackson, to name a few.
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LOS ANGELES – When internationally acclaimed virtuoso acoustic/electric cellist, recording artist and composer Tina Guo needs to amplify her acoustic cello, she relies on the d:vote 4099C Instrument Microphone for Cello from DPA Microphones.
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NINGBO, CHINA— The Third Ningbo Fête de la Musiqué took place at the Ningbo Cultural Plaza June 18-19. This was VUE’s first public festival in China. For this event, VUE provided both the PA system and technical support, debuting VUE’s large format al-12 Scalable Line Array loudspeaker system.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Philly Pops, one of the largest standalone pops orchestras in the U.S., needed a miniature mic solution to amplify the string ensemble of the Philly Pops’ 65-piece ensemble. Houser Audio, the Pops’ official audio provider, picked Point Source Audio’s Series8 CO-8WL omnidirectional lavalier mics for the task.
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BELFAST – The Kingspan Stadium, home of Ulster Rugby, has completed a major upgrade of its stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The construction of three covered stands are designed to match the existing premium stand, with a newly specified RCF PAVA (Public Address and Voice Alarm) distributed sound broadcast system, linked to a fire alarm, to create a communications infrastructure that complies with BS5839 Part 8 standards.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Professional full-service event production provider CKA recently supplied an Adamson E-Series sound reinforcement system to support the Kohar Symphony Orchestra and Choir. The orchestra and choir performed traditional Armenian music at the Forum de Beirut to a sold-out crowd. “The Forum has a high reverberation time which translates into pretty bad acoustics,” explains Chadi Akiki, owner of CKA. “The directionality of the Adamson PA was a tremendous help. The end result was quite exceptional.”
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MIAMI – Sound engineers Eddie “El Brujo” Caipo and Brad Divens are now relying on a range of DPA Microphones for Enrique Iglesias’ current tour, after testing them out with a demo package offered from the company. Caipo handles mixing monitors and Divens serves as FOH engineer.
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LAS VEGAS – 3G Productions chose Martin Audio MLA for the star-studded Cosmic Meadow Stage during the three-day celebration of lights, colors, dance, costumes and music at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. With leading DJs such as Zedd, Martin Solveig, Paul Van Dyk, Knife Party, Swanky Tunes, Chris Lake, Flux Pavilion and more, Cosmic Meadow demanded a world-class sound system that could cover the crowd consistently with full frequency audio at the highest decibel levels.
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Audio-Technica’s ATUC-50 Digital Wired Discussion System is designed for intuitive operation and plug-and-play functionality. A choice of two gooseneck lengths is available: the ATUC-M43H 17″ (430 mm) and ATUC-M58H 23″ (580 mm) microphones. Using standard Cat5 (and above) cables, a complete system can support up to three ATUC-50CU control units and 150 ATUC-50DU discussion units, controlled from any web browser with no need for additional software installation.
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Waves Audio’s Waves Infected Mushroom Pusher plugin gives users enormous possibilities for boosting frequencies, enhancing sounds and mastering full tracks for any genre or style. Pusher is also low-latency, so users can freely implement it in the studio or live on stage.
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Sommer Cable has introduced its latest innovation: a new hybrid cable for use at live events, in broadcasting trucks, and for dome camera systems. Sommer’s new Transit MC 1031 sends or receives HD video picture together with power and network signals.
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