BOSTON — Parsons Audio recently added two Yamaha CL5 digital consoles to the Berklee Performance Center, located within the renovated Fenway Theater here. The facility serves as the primary performance space for the Berklee College of Music.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Fall, the Federal Communications Commission announced plans for an incentive auction of the 608 to 698 MHz UHF spectrum — the previous UHF TV channels 36 through 51. Many of these frequencies in this 600 MHz band are used by professional audio users, whether for wireless mics, IEM’s, intercoms and IFB talent cueing systems. Ironically, some of these affected systems migrated to those frequencies after the FCC’s previous “reallocation” of TV channels 52 to 69 (the so-called “700 MHz band” from 698 to 806 MHz) in 2008, which were made illegal for pro wireless applications after June 12, 2010. But a recent change at the FCC may spell some good news for pro wireless users.
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA — Mission Lutheran Church, based here, is using a Riedel RockNet 100 digital audio network solution to support its new contemporary worship service and Praise Team. The system, supplied and installed by Delicate Electronics as part of a sanctuary remodel, links the main worship center inputs from the stage to a Yamaha LS9 console.
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ANAHEIM, California – At Winter NAMM 2014, JBL Professional announced the latest addition to its legendary EON portable loudspeakers with the new EON600 Series. A complete departure from traditional approaches to affordable, self-contained and portable P.A. systems, the EON600 Series was purposely designed and built from the ground up using JBL’s advanced waveguide technology and proprietary transducers. The EON600 Series brings the extraordinary quality of high-end studio monitors to a highly flexible, easy-to-use P.A. system.
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FORT WAYNE, IN — For Fellowship Missionary Church’s multi-purpose sanctuary, Indianapolis-based Circle City Audio provided Adamson Systems’ Metrix line arrays. The L-R setup includes 10 Metrix enclosures per side — two Metrix Subs at the top, six Metrix and two Metrix W enclosures at the bottom. Two T21 subwoofers are beneath the stage for additional low end reinforcement.
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PASADENA, CA — The audio signals for NBC’s The Voice-themed float and five others with wireless audio in the 125th Rose Parade were mixed on a DiGiCo SD10 digital console supplied by Rat Sound Systems. The parade’s 45 floats, 15 equestrian units and numerous marching bands were seen by close to 700,000 along the parade route and millions more via an international broadcast.
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ANAHEIM, CA — At the 29th Annual TEC Awards during Winter NAMM on Jan. 24, Jeff Salmon of the Les Paul Foundation (pictured left) presented Todd Rundgren (right) with the Les Paul Award. The award, presented at the Anaheim Hilton, honors achievement in pro audio technology and production.
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HAMPTON, IA — Mark Carey, president/owner of Spencer, IA-based Carey’s Electronics provided Bose RoomMatch loudspeakers and a PowerMatch amplifier to meet the need for intelligibility at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church here. The new gear provides a “nice, tight band of sound for the congregation,” he noted.
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ROME — Andrea Taglia, live sound engineer for Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, owns a selection of DPA Microphones and credits them for sonic transparency. He often sources additional units when he is on tour with Bocelli through DPA’s Italian distributor, M. Casale Bauer. A recent case in point (pictured here): the use of DPA d:screet 4061 Miniature Microphones as close proximity mics for strings.
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NASHVILLE — KEM’s What Christmas Means Tour featured original compositions and holiday classics performed by KEM along with Patti LaBelle and also Ron and Ernie Isley. The tour, with Dec. 2013 stops in Washington DC, Norfolk VA, Durham NC, Detroit MI, Louisville KY and Nashville TN, also featured comedy from Anthony Anderson. Thunder Audio supplied RCF gear.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Planetshakers City Church at the Dallas Brooks Centre in downtown Melbourne, known for its contemporary praise and worship music along with the evangelical spoken word of its pastors, is using d&b audiotechnik V-Series gear.
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