Video of the Week: FOH Magazine, Jan. 2014
Majic Productions Adds Allen & Heath Mixers to Inventory
BROOKFIELD, WI — Majic Productions has expanded its rental inventory with Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 and GLD-80 digital mixers. The company is led by Mike Jurken, president and CEO, who got his start running his own DJ business 14 years ago, when he was only 12 years old. Pictured here with the new mixers are, from left, Logan Byrne, Majic’s lead sound tech, and Brad Butterfield.
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Ashly Processing, Amplification, and Control At Rochester, NY’s Historic Sibley Building
ROCHESTER, NY – The “new” Sibley Building in downtown Rochester, New York rose out of the ashes of the original Sibley Building, which served as the city’s first department store and burned down in 1906. It has remained an architectural fixture ever since and was admitted to National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The lower levels serve as retail space and help to anchor Rochester’s current downtown revitalization. Its public areas recently benefited from a sound system overhaul that centered on processing, amplification, and control provided by commercial audio manufacturer Ashly Audio of nearby Webster, New York.
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Sennheiser to Demo Laser Drum Mic at NAMM
ANAHEIM, CA — Sennheiser is exhibiting a concept microphone developed by its San Francisco-based Technology and Innovation Lab at its booth at Winter NAMM (Hall A, Booth 6577) that uses visuals (laser vibrometers) instead of audio (acoustic waves) to trigger the gates for each drum.
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Outline Hires Andrea Ippolito and Anastasia Klinushkina
FLERO, Brescia, Italy – Outline announced that it has hired telecom engineer Andrea Ippolito (pictured here) and named Anastasia Klinushkina as business developer supporting the sales office. Ippolito has already worked for several months on the iMode project, under the guidance of engineer Daniele Pagani. Klinushkina, whose native language is Russian, is also fluent in English, Italian and German.
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Sound Image Provides E218 Subs, Other Adamson Gear for John Legend Tour
PORT PERRY, Ontario – For John Legend’s Made to Love tour, Sound Image provided an Adamson Energia E15 PA system. The typical setup includes L-R hangs of 12 enclosures per side with front fill support provided by four SpekTrix enclosures. Sound Image, based in Nashville and Escondido, CA, is also providing eight Adamson Energia E218 subwoofers.
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Oslo’s Ingensteds Upgrades with VUE a-Class
OSLO – Ingensteds, a multi-purpose venue that opened here last summer after a major renovation that included a new sound reinforcement system from Trondheim and Oslo-based Avon, now hosts events that range from classical music performances to disco parties and weddings. The new sound system pairs VUE Audiotechnik’s a-15 and a-8 two way systems with dual, soffit-mounted as-215 subwoofers.
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Austin, TX Church Using Allen & Heath Consoles
AUSTIN, TX — Unity Church of the Hills is now using an Allen & Heath iLive T112 with an IDR 64 at FOH to drive a new Turbosound TCS 1061 line array powered by Ashly NE 2400 amplifiers and a series of Shure ULX-D wireless microphones. Jeff Sarich, the church’s sound engineer, worked with Doug Windle at Ace Audio, Hutto, TX, who designed the system.
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Roland All-In-One VR-3EX AV Mixer
The Roland VR-3EX from Roland Systems Group is the company’s latest all-in-one AV mixer for live production, web streaming and recording. The unit includes an audio mixer, video mixer, touchscreen monitor and USB port for streaming and recording.
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Meyer Sound LYON Linear Line Array
Meyer Sound has announced the self-powered LYON™ linear sound reinforcement system, the newest addition to the LEO family of linear loudspeaker systems. Incorporating the technology of the LEO family in a lighter, more compact package, the LYON loudspeaker system extends the advantages of highly linear self-powered systems to a broader range of venues and applications. LYON will debut at the Feb., 2014 ISE trade show in Amsterdam. Shown here (L-to-R) is the LYON development team: Pablo Espinosa, chief loudspeaker designer & VP of R&D; John Meyer; and product manager Luke Jenks.
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CAD Audio 1600 Series UHF Wireless System
CAD Audio’s StagePass 1600 Series UHF wireless system is designed to provide 100-channel frequency agile UHF operation for maximum operating range along with CAD ScanLink technology to precisely scan, select and link to the optimum channel in any RF environment.
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U.K. Holiday Tour Mixed at Monitors with A&H QU-16
GLASGOW — For a Christmas run of arena shows featuring artists such as Union J, Pixie Lott, The Saturdays, Rizzle Kicks, Naughty Boy, Rudimental, McFly, John Newman and Robbie Williams, monitor engineer Ben Booker used Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 digital rackmount mixer.
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