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Azusa Pacific University Improves Signal Routing With Riedel

Azusa control room.

Azusa Pacific University Improves Signal Routing With Riedel

AZUSA, CA — Azusa Pacific University (APU) has extended its deployment of Riedel Communications gear with the purchase of four new MediorNet MicroN 80G media distribution network devices that enable the university to link sites across its Azusa, CA, campus in a decentralized routing matrix. Complementing APU’s existing MediorNet Modular real-time media network, Artist digital matrix intercom, and RockNet digital audio network systems, the MicroN devices support uniquely flexible, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage signal processing, routing and distribution.

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We Are FSTVL. Photo: Paul Underhill.

Capital Sound Supports Three Main Stages at We Are FSTVL with Martin Audio Systems

UPMINSTER, U.K. — Known for delivering high-octane sound for international EDM events, Capital Sound returned to the We Are FSTVL site at Damyns Hall Aerodrome in Upminster, deploying Martin Audio MLA system on the three main stages. The production company last worked with promoter Reece Miller on the two-day event back in 2014, and with production values ramping up, they were recalled this year by festival production director, Simon Barrington, with whom they collaborated on Above & Beyond shows and last year’s Wild Life Festival.

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A Cornish College dance class.

Cornish College Reaches for Mackie

SEATTLE – After working with various PAs for years, each with some level of compromise, tap dance professor Tim Hickey found an ideal solution that worked on all counts for Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts: Mackie’s portable Reach Professional PA. Hickey has two tap classes with 16 students each. “Tap dancing can get pretty loud,” he notes, “so we need a more powerful system than the ballet, jazz and modern dance classes do. The Reach has 720W of amplification, and even with 16 tap students in a room with a wooden floor and walls lined with mirrors, it cuts through loud and clear.”

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Kalle Hvidt Nielsen will lead the company from Sept. 1, 2016

DPA Microphones Names Kalle Hvidt Nielsen CEO, Effective Sept. 1, 2016

ALLEROED, Denmark – DPA Microphones named Kalle Hvidt Nielsen as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1, 2016. At that time, Nielsen will succeed interim CEO Thorsten Reuber, who has managed the company since Jan. 25, 2016. Nielsen brings more than 15 years of experience in directing technology-focused Danish companies. He comes to DPA Microphones from Topsil Semiconductor Materials A/S, where he has held the CEO position since 2011.

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Wigwam Acoustics supplied a new Meyer Sound Leo family system at the main stage of the Isle of Wight Festival.

Wigwam’s Meyer Sound System Delivers at Isle of Wight

ISLE OF WIGHT, UK – Wigwam Acoustics supplied a new Meyer Sound Leo family system at the main stage of the Isle of Wight Festival. The new system effortlessly powered performances by headliners such as The Who, Faithless, Stereophonics, and Queen + Adam Lambert. The system’s linear characteristics coupled with precise directional control kept the festival grounds rocking while significantly reducing bleed into nearby residential areas.

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Lindsay Smith, monitor engineer; Sebastian Poux, FOH engineer; Jake-Gukowsky, stage tech, all of Delicate; Joshua Cruz, systems tech VUE.

VUE Audiotechnik Debuts al-12 and HS-221 Sub Combo at Bottlerock

NAPA, CA – Bay Area-based Delicate Productions provided full production including staging, lighting, video and audio on all five stages of this year’s Bottlerock. For the Miner Family Winery Stage, Delicate deployed the new VUE Audiotechnik al-12 system for its inaugural run with FOH engineer Sebastien Poux. Over at the Jam Cellars’ stage, the VIP skyboxes were outfitted with VUE Sound via Dante. William “Snoopy” Fuquay of WFA Audio was in charge of the h-8 with Dante setup and ran the sound with Delicate Productions’ networking guru Jacob Choplin.

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