SHANGHAI – Sennheiser Group and the Shanghai Concert Hall have agreed to terms that officially renames the Shanghai Concert Hall, “Sennheiser Shanghai Concert Hall.” The company also introduces its new record label, Sennheiser Media. Famed Chinese musical prodigy, A-Bu is the label’s first signing, and Sennheiser is pleased to launch A Bu’s first album at this event.
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ORLANDO – After touring with a major soft drink company and working with Central Florida theme parks, DJ Charles Miles became inspired to create a self-contained mobile entertainment experience by building a complete system on wheels. The gear of choice – RCF loudspeakers for the PA and Pioneer gear for the DJ gear onboard. Why? “The stuff just doesn’t fail,” said Miles. “They are the only speakers that never shut down when it gets hot. We do a lot of outdoor events on the beaches and in the parks, and it gets hot in Florida. We’ve never had one ever go into thermal load.”
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LONDON – Britannia Row’s latest DiGiCo SD7 console purchase went directly to use on the recent BRIT Awards. “For the first time on the BRITS I specified DiGiCo SD7 consoles for use on front of house and monitors,” said Derrick Zieba, audio designer and live sound supervisor for the show. “I had used this console for the first time on the Classic BRITS last year and was amazed by the audio quality, transparency, flexibility and reliability of this board.”
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers has opened a new indoor test facility at its factory here. Designed by Charlie Hughes of Excelsior Audio and operated by Senior Measurement Technician, Hadi Sumoro, the new test facility enables loudspeaker measurements with unprecedented accuracy and precision.
Read More »LONDON — An investigation has determined that wooden ceiling frames held up by cloth and plaster ceiling ties since 1901 gave way in the Dec. 19, 2013 partial ceiling collapse at London’s historic Apollo Theatre, according to news reports.
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WIGAN, U.K. – The Midas PRO1 Digital Mixing Console is the board of choice for Russ Miller and the Tudor House, a popular hotel, pub and performance venue based here. Tudor House has extremely demanding requirements of their sound system. Speaking to his choice of mixing console, Miller offers, “I love the immediacy of the sound of the Midas PRO Series, and the PRO1′s compact footprint fits the limited space in the sound booth.”
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Lectrosonics has added three new products in the company’s L Series ‘Large Bandwidth’ line of wireless microphones. The new L Series units all share a wide tuning range of three standard Lectrosonics blocks, or 67.5 to 76.8 MHz, depending on the specific frequency band, and employ Lectrosonics’ patented Digital Hybrid Wireless technology for compandor-free audio along with compatibility modes for interoperability with older analog systems. The new L Series product group consists of the LMb and LT beltpack transmitters, and the LR miniature receiver.
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GUANGZHOU, CHINA – To help Chinese manufacturing firm Donlim celebrate 25 years with a concert attended by close to 10,000 people, audio distributor DMX provided an Adamson Energía system. The setup included L-R line arrays of six E15 and four E12 enclosures. A total of 12 T21 subwoofers provided low end reinforcement – six stacked on the left and right of the stage. “The system performed extremely well,” said Adamson Systems’ David Dohrmann. “We were covering an area of 120 x 80 meters and it sounded great in every seat.”
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BEAVERTON, OR – Biamp Systems, a provider of networked media systems based here, named Paul Waadevig as its new Unified Communications Product Manager. Bringing more than 10 years of conferencing, collaboration, and telecommunication service experience to Biamp, Waadevig will oversee the strategy, development, and promotion of the company’s conferencing products.
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RED HOOK, NY – Solid State Logic is continuing to build its U.S. dealer network to support its new Live console with the appointment of Firehouse Productions, based here. A 2014 TEC Award winner for its support of Peter Gabriel’s Back to Front tour, Firehouse provides sound reinforcement and complete sound systems for every aspect of live production. Pictured here is Firehouse Productions owner/president Bryan Olson with the console.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Frankfurt’s 2014 Prolight+Sound exhibition drew 897 exhibitors from 42 countries from March 12-15. Combined with Musikmesse, there were a total of 2,242 exhibitors, with 110,000 visitors from 142 countries attending. New product launches tend run in cycles, and right now, live sound consoles are hot, hot, hot. Along with an ample assortment of new sound reinforcement consoles (for any budget), there were plenty of upgrades and updates for existing models.
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AUSTIN, TX – An annual onslaught of bands during the the South By South West Music Festival, Good Danny’s recording studio plays host to 40 bands in 5 days. Managing so many musicians in such a short span of time has its share of headaches, but one thing the staff at Danny’s doesn’t have to concern themselves with is the microphones and headphones that are their brand of choice – beyerdynamic. This year beyer brought in 20 pairs of the new Custom Studio headphones for the Day Trotter series at Danny’s.
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