DPA Microphones Announces Three Company Promotions

BOZEMAN, MONTANA – Doug Brekke of Black Box Design recently teamed up with Bridgewater Acoustics to design and install a new Bose Professional Room Match sound system for Montana State University in The Brick Breeden Fieldhouse.  Since the sound system upgrade the 7250 seat Fieldhouse, has become host to a far wider range of events, including the occasional rodeo, concerts and trade expos.

BOSTON — Berklee College of Music is using Point Source Audios’ Series8 cardioid headset microphones for their musical productions. The Point Source headset mics debuted at the school late last year. They are expected to be used for hundreds of student-run productions each year (including the recent production pictured here). Alejo Planchart, production manager in concert operations for Berklee, praised the headset mics for low coloration and high gain-before-feedback. “The sound is much more natural after feedback corrections,” Planchart noted.

LOS ANGELES – Audio-Technica provided a number of microphones for the GRAMMY Awards telecast, which took place this year live at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday, February 15, 2016.

PHILADELPHIA – Currently in the midst of a five-month tour that will span the United States, EDM artist Brillz is bringing his unique brand of hip-hop/EDM on his Twonk Di Nation Tour featuring an all-star lineup, with rising festival trap artist Party Favor appearing on all dates and a rotating cast of support artists that includes Jackal, DOTCOM, Ghastly, LAXX, Kayzo, Party Thieves, Willy Joy, Y2K, Aryay, Dr. Fresch, and Infuze. The tour is carrying a VUE Audiotechnik monitor rig for the DJs consisting of eight VUE al-4s and four al-8SB subwoofers.  The system was supplied by Zeo Brothers Productions for use in the DJ Booth at all venues to help eliminate sound delay for the artists.

1,000 Users now on-board! This week the Current RMS Team are celebrating hitting the 1,000-user mark with close to 700 rental businesses worldwide now relying on the system to manage all their rental processes. Launched just 15 months ago, Current has experienced rapid growth, illustrating the need for Audio Visual, Lighting and Sound rental businesses to be able to work on the move, raise quotes on the fly, check availability of inventory and generate invoices from any device and location.

SANTA CLARA, CA — ATK Audiotek was credited with another memorable Super Bowl Halftime Show with an assist from gear made by JBL/Harman, Powersoft and Sennheiser, among others. Pat Baltzell, pictured here during set up and rehearsals, served as sound designer and FOH mixer for the show, which featured performances by Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, and reached 111.9 million viewers. The audio production involved 18 mobile speaker carts, each equipped with JBL VT4889 line array elements, JBL VT4880A subwoofers and Powersoft K10 amplifiers.