ROVINJ, Croatia – While Hannes Arch, co-architect of Harman’s AKG AV100 aviation headphones, was the winner of the Red Bull Air Race in Rovinj, Croatia, the moderator’s bench was left wanting for nothing with their own set of Harman’s AKG wireless microphones, headsets and in-ear monitoring systems.
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MAUI, Hawaii – Owner of 35-year-old musical instrument store and pro audio installation company Bounty Music on the island of Maui, Paul Weinstein and his wife Linda recently revamped the local St. Theresa Church with Harman’s Soundcraft digital console, JBL loudspeakers, Crown amplification and dbx signal processing.
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BEIJING — Music reality show Sing My Song, aired by CCTV3, installed Harman’s JBL VTX V25 line array loudspeakers for the benefit of the 300-capacity studio audience. The system includes 10 JBL VTX V25 fullsize line array loudspeakers each that are suspended and cover three sides of the stage. Beneath the stage are three groups of four JBL VTX S28 subwoofers each. The speakers are managed via JBL VTX LAC (Line Array Calculator) Software.
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PASADENA, MD — Northeast High School, based here, underwent a substantial audio system upgrade within its gymnasium, cafeteria and black box theater using components from Community Professional loudspeakers. Polysonics and HP Electronics worked on the project. Pictured here is the gym, with Community R-Series Loudspeakers.
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ST. LOUIS, MO – The Missouri Athletic Club (MAC), founded in 1903, recently upgraded its audio-visual system in the Missouri Room, its main ballroom, used for banquets and receptions. TSI-Global designed and installed a new system that includes ten Yamaha IF2208W loudspeakers that are processed using the new Yamaha CIS MTX3. TSI also installed four DCP1v4S units to control six audio sources (three wall plate inputs, two Sennheiser wireless microphones, and a DVD player).
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BEIJING – Allen & Heath’s Chinese distributor, Sanecore Group, was appointed to install a new sound system in a 400m² multi-function hall of China Petrochemical Corporation, Sinopec. Sanecore selected a GLD mixing system, comprising a GLD-80 digital mixer, with accompanying AR2412 and AR84 remote I/O expander audio racks.
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LOMIANKI, Poland – Harman Soundcraft’s Polish distributor ESS Audio has fulfilled the first of its first batch of orders for the new Soundcraft Vi3000.The first two companies to take delivery are W Sound from Szczecin, run by Mariusz Węgiełek, and Modussound of Sieraków Śląski, headed by Artur and Lukasz Kedzia. Both confirm they already have the consoles out on tour.
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LAS VEGAS – Britney Spears’ Las Vegas production at at Planet Hollywood’s 4,600-seat AXIS theater here is equipped with DiGiCo SD Series consoles at FOH (Robert “Cubby” Colby is mixing on an SD10) and monitors (Johnny Balistrere is using an SD5).
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ADELAIDE, Australia – The Australian Pink Floyd Show (TAPFS), a Pink Floyd tribute band, is touring and performing with a selection of AKG microphones. The band has sold more than four million tickets in 35 countries.
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ASTORIA, NY – The owners of the Melrose Ballroom here, an 8,000-square-foot event, concert and performance venue, worked with Boston-based Audio Spectrum on the design and installation of a new sound system centered on EAW components.
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BOSTON — The Boston Opera House, housed in a theater that first opened in 1928, is relying upon Bose RoomMatch array modules to optimize coverage and intelligibility across its vast seating zones. The venue has 2,645 seats in all — 1,303 in the balcony.
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MEXICO CITY — For the current world tour for Mexican alt/psychedelic band Zoé, monitor engineer Gustavo Zertuche is using an SSL Live console supplied by Meridian Proaudio to drive the group’s wedges and in-ear monitors. Meridian Proaudio was the first rental company in Latin America to add the new console to its rental inventory.
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