BATON ROUGE, LA – Larry Lucas, director of audio engineering for Anthony James Partners (Richmond, VA) designed an upgrade for the sound system within Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium here. The new point source system, installed by Baker Audio of Norcross, GA, includes eighteen Jericho Horns and six “Rock Monster” subwoofers.
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Introduced at Winter NAMM 2014, the new CADLive D80, D82 and D84 microphones are designed to deliver maximum performance, value and ease of use for miking guitar cabinets and percussion instruments.
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MIAMI — Shure Inc., based in Niles, IL, opened an office in Miami recently. Led by José A. Rivas, managing director, Latin America, the new location is dedicated to sales, marketing, and business development in Latin America. The office is located at downtown Miami’s Wells Fargo building.
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EDISON, NJ — New England based production house, AudionX, has chosen the Italian made RCF HDL20-A for their new line array inventory.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Game Seven Grill is a barbecue restaurant located in the Gila River Casinos Plaza at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. Before opening in March of 2013, Game Seven Grill underwent a major renovation including new seating, championship décor and a new sound and video system featuring Community CP6 pendant loudspeakers for the interior and R.25-94T loudspeakers for the Grill’s outdoor plaza seating.
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CHICAGO, IL – For location sound professionals, few things are more catastrophic than equipment failures. Such occurrences not only hinder production, it puts the equipment operators in the extremely uncomfortable position of being responsible for the delays—and this can cost someone their job. Knowing “you’re only as good as your last successful project,” the location sound crew behind the scenes of “Oprah’s Next Chapter”—the primetime television show on The Oprah Winfrey Network—relies on Digital Hybrid Wireless Technology from Rio Rancho NM-based Lectrosonics.
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REGGIO EMILIA, Italy — One year after joining Eighteen Sound (18Sound) as the manager of R&D, Steve Hutt (pictured here, right) noted the progress the company has made in its focus on manufacturing, quality and production excellence. A significant milestone took place last June, when 18Sound moved to a new facility with enough space for production, sales, R&D and administration.
Read More »ASHLAND, MA — In a new supply agreement, RF Venue remote antennas, RF distribution equipment, and other accessory products for wireless microphones, IEMs, and intercoms are now available through Professional Wireless Systems, a Masque Sound company.
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VIENNA, Austria — The Vienna Volksoper, a 1,261-seat opera venue that stages close to 300 performances a year, first opened in 1898 but now features a 21st-century mixing console with a touch-enabled user interface — the new POLARIS touch console from Audio Video Mediensysteme, a member of the Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup.
Read More »COLUMBUS, OH — A load-out accident following the Jan. 16 Luke Bryan concert at Ohio State University’s Schottenstein Center sent four crew members to the hospital with minor injuries. Reports noted a chain of events involving a forklift, video gear and stage structure elements, with both crew and gear falling in the partial structural collapse.
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EINSIEDELN, Switzerland — For last summer’s production of Welttheater, a once-every-seven-years tradition, Tom Strebel of Basel’s audiopool used the TiMax2 SoundHub audio localization matrix system from Out Board to make the audio experience as comfortable as possible for an audience confronted with some odd visuals, including live performers suspended in the air.
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BOISE, ID — For 14,500-capacity Bronco Stadium at Boise State University, Production Services International worked with Daktronics to enhance the audio system with Jericho Horn loudspeakers, BC subwoofers and OS-80 weatherproof loudspeakers from Danley Sound Labs.
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