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Saint Asonia Tours with CADLive Mics

From left, Corey, Rich, Adam and Mike.

Saint Asonia Tours with CADLive Mics

TORONTO – FOH Engineer Jeff Gilmer has been using a variety of CADLive and other CAD Audio microphones on tour with Canadian supergroup Saint Asonia. Consisting of Adam Gontier (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Mike Mushok (lead guitar), Corey Lowery (bass) and Rich Beddoe (drums), Saint Asonia formed in Toronto in 2014 and released their debut RCA album Saint Ansonia in 2015. Since then, they’ve released several singles and have toured as headliners throughout Canada. Corey, Rich, Adam and Mike are pictured here, L-R.

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President Obama met with Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel at Harting's booth during MICA in Hannover, Germany in late April.

President Obama and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel Visit Harting’s Booth at Hannover Trade Fair

HANNOVER, Germany – It might be unusual for the head of a world power to pay a visit to any company’s trade show booth. But Harting Technology Group noted that both U.S. president Barack Obama and Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit, at the same time, to the company’s booth during the opening of MICA (Modular Industry Computing Architecture), the world’s largest industrial trade show, which took place April 25-29 at the Hannover Messe exhibition center.

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Raven PMG provided the new D.A.S. system.

Republic NOLA Equipped with D.A.S. Audio System

NEW ORLEANS — Republic NOLA caters to a diverse, interesting, and eclectic audience who enjoy music, cocktails, and entertainment of all kinds. As part of a recent renovation, the venue made use of D.A.S. Audio’s Aero Series 2, Action, Artec and Vantec loudspeaker components.

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rançois Lay, Head of the Business Solutions division, HK Audio

HK Audio Launches Business Solutions Division

ST. WENDEL, Germany — HK Audio has formed a new Business Solutions division, promising highly efficient and acoustically outstanding packages worldwide for installation projects that require special custom solutions. rançois Lay, Head of the Business Solutions division, is pictured here.

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Maple School’s Gymnasium with Community Loudspeakers

Oklahoma K-8 Gymnasium Installs V Series and I Series Components

CALUMET, OK — Located near Oklahoma City, Maple Schools is a K-8 elementary school serving 155 students. Its new “Clyde Gene Miller Gymnasium,” completed in 2014, is a state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility for Maple Eagles sports, band and choir performances, assemblies, graduations and other events. In 2015, Video Reality of Oklahoma City installed a new audio system using Community Professional V Series and I Series components in an exploded cluster configuration.

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The card is designed for low latency and network redundancy

Focusrite RedNet PCIeR Card for Dante Networks

Focusrite announces the release of RedNet PCIeR for Dante networks, part of the expanding RedNet range of Dante-compatible interface products offering network redundancy for maximum reliability and to meet redundancy specification requirements. Functionally similar to the existing RedNet PCIe, RedNet PCIeR card adds dual RJ45 Ethernet ports, allowing two networks to be connected to the card, which can switch between them automatically according to network availability.

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WorxAudio PDA-1000R Power Amplifier

WorxAudio PDA-1000R Power Amplifier

WorxAudio Technologies’ PDA-1000R power amplifier features integrated DSP and Dante audio networking technology. Designed as a rackmountable system, the PDA-1000R fits within loudspeaker enclosures or equipment racks. A key feature is an 800 ms alignment delay adjustable in 0.1 ms increments so operators can align delay systems, center fills, and more.

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Whirlwind Audio PW-1 Personal Wedge

Whirlwind Audio PW-1 Personal Wedge

Get the perfect hardwired IEM mix with the Whirlwind Personal Wedge. This high-powered stereo headphone driver, designed for use with onstage in-ear monitoring systems will drive all brands of earbuds and headphones from 16 to 600 ohms. The rugged beltpack unit features left and right balanced, line-level XLR inputs; a protective brickwall peak limiter with adjustable threshold, a stereo/mono switch that can sum the left/right XLR inputs to both ears and an additional 3.5mm stereo input. Drive power is 300mW into 30 ohms; response is 20 Hz to 20k Hz (+/-1.7 dB).

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Stage Tec Fibre Optic Boards for NEXUS

Stage Tec Fibre Optic Boards for NEXUS

Digital console and audio networks expert Stage Tec launched an intelligent fibre-optic board for its NEXUS audio networks and mixing console connectivity. As a special feature, the new generation of NEXUS fibre-optic interfaces, or XFOC for short, acts not only as an I/O transfer medium, but also provides integrated routing functionality. Four independent ports are each capable of transporting 512 inputs and outputs via fibre optic to the NEXUS Base Device, Stage Tec’s standard audio router. In total, this creates a management and routing capacity of more than 2 000 signals per fibre-optic board.

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Tannoy layoffs announced

Music Group Announces Tannoy Layoffs, Possible Closure of Scotland Plant

COATBRIDGE, Scotland — Music Group, the corporate parent for brands such as Midas, Klark Teknik, Lab.gruppen, Lake, Tannoy, Turbosound, TC Electronic, TC Helicon and Behringer, has announced it plans to lay off approximately 70 staff positions at its manufacturing and office facility in Coatbridge, Scotland. The company is about to enter into a process of collective consultation with all affected employees, but in the event that the redundancies are confirmed following consultation, the Coatbridge facility would cease operations completely. In this event, the Tannoy loudspeaker production would be transferred to Music Group’s new three-million square-foot manufacturing plant in Zhongshan, China, with its research & development and marketing activities being relocated to its facility in Manchester, U.K.

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