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dB Technologies Launches New ES503 Entertainment System

dB Technologies ES503

dB Technologies Launches New ES503 Entertainment System

ES503 is the first born of brand new Entertainment System series, specifically created by Italian manufacturer dB Technologies in order to pack its long time active speaker expertise into a multifunctional, portable, space-saving, user-friendly yet powerful system. A complete three-element system which adapts to several uses (and thousands of different users), thanks to a built-in digital mixer, a OLED display user interface and a Bluetooth audio receiver.

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George Petersen FOH Magazine editor

Jobs, Jobs (and More) Jobs!

If you haven’t figured it out by now, the sound industry is just getting past school graduations, which mark the official start of the busy summer season. As anybody who works at a local soundco can testify, handling two weeks of back-to-back college and high school graduations can make for some crazy times. In a busy scholastic market, like the San Francisco Bay Area where I live, there are at least a dozen or more colleges and a multitude of high schools that all seem to schedule their commencement exercises the same week. Trying to juggle coverage and setups of all that can equate to a logistical nightmare.

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Dennis Sheehan accepted the Parnelli Award for Lifetime Achievement on Oct. 24, 2008.

In Memoriam: Dennis Sheehan, 1946-2015

Dennis Sheehan, longtime tour manager for U2 and 2008 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement award winner, died May 27. He was 68. Sheehan had been in Los Angeles with U2 for a series of shows in the early stages of their 2015 “Innocence + Experience” Tour. U2 had opened the first of five shows at the Forum the night before.

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Neil Diamond (c) Steve Jennings

Neil Diamond World Tour

“Neil has a way of getting the audience with him one way or another! He’s amazing at that.”

So declares sound designer/FOH engineer Stanley Miller, who would certainly know of such things. In what has to be some kind of record, Miller has embarked on yet another world tour for an astounding 47th year. Honored with a Parnelli Audio Innovator Award in 2009, and recently brought onto the Parnelli Board of Advisors, this is a guy with stamina. He’s the same age as Diamond (74), but as he has throughout his entire career, he continues to embrace and even push the cutting edge of new technology.

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