Harman’s Soundcraft announced Version 2.0 of its ViSi Remote iPad app for Soundcraft Vi, Si Compact, Si Performer and Si Expression consoles. Version 2.0 lets users of Si Compact, Performer and Expression consoles adjust channel strip settings per channel including settings such as Gate, Compressor and EQ along with Pan, LR/Mono routing and phase invert switches. This functionality will be added to Vi consoles in a future update.
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NASHVILLE, TN – One Systems, Inc., was awarded patents by the United States Patent Trademark Office for its new horn and driver design, “Equivalent Throat Technology” and “Inside/Only Voice Coil” design. Both patents are the result of designs by Mike O’Neill, One Systems chief engineer.
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LAS VEGAS — The Event Safety Alliance announced that Version 1.0 of its Event Safety Guide, nearly two years in the making, will be introduced at LDI here in late November. Copies of the guide will be available for review and comment at the Event Safety Alliance booth #2363.
Read More »PARIS — A major pyro blast injured crew members prior to doors for the staging of a musical about the French revolution, 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille, at Palais des Sports de Paris. The show’s technical director, Marcus Toledano, 41, had a heart attack and later died.
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ERLANGER, KY – TV One, based here, named Oscar Hsu APAC director of sales. Hsu, who has 20 years of AV experience, will be based in the company’s Taiwan office and oversee sales operations in the Asia/Pacific region.
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LAS VEGAS – 3G Productions designed and installed an audio system for the hip-hop dance crew Jabbawockeez’ new show, Prism, featured at a new 850-seat theater at the Luxor Hotel and Casino here. 3G specified a d&b audioteknik system for the space that includes 12 Q-Subs, 6 V12s a side and eight E8s for the 5.1 surround.
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AUSTIN, TX – For the Austin City Limits Music Festival, held for the first time on two consecutive weekends Oct. 4-6 and 11-13, Thunder Audio provided a Harman JBL VTX line array system powered by Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers. The system included 36 VTX V25 flown 18 per side with eight V25 cabinets per side for the outside hang. For the low end, Thunder Audio provided 48 VTX S28 subwoofers in two hangs of 12 each on either side of the stage, with 24 ground-stacked S28 subs across the front of the stage. The system was powered by 86 Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers networked and controlled with JBL HiQnet Performance Manager.
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LAS VEGAS — When the first-ever Life Is Beautiful music, art and food festival, took over 15 square blocks of downtown Las Vegas on Oct. 26th and 27th, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) was on location providing frequency coordination for the more than 80 musical acts, performers and media outlets throughout the two-day celebration.
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ROSENBERG, TX – For 12,000-seat Guy K. Traylor Stadium here, home to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District High School football team, Stafford, TX-based Firetron provided a new system that includes JBL CBT Series column loudspeakers from Harman. The setup includes four JBL CBT 200LA-1 column loudspeakers on each long side of the stadium, with four behind the home team stands and four behind the visiting team stands. The system is powered with Crown IT6000 amplifiers with BSS BLU-100 processing.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – High Definition Audio Visual Ltd (HDAV), based here, recently added two Allen & Heath digital consoles, a Qu-16 rack mount mixer and the new GLD-112 with accompanying AR2412 and AR84 for additional stage and FOH I/O racks to its rental inventory.
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FLERO, Brescia, Italy – Outline has dedicated a new website to its iMode platform for audio system control, noting that modern loudspeaker systems require more sophisticated layers of control than those of the past.
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MADISON, WI – The Overture Center for the Arts complex here includes seven performance facilities and four art galleries. The complex’s Capitol Theater venue, which dates back to 1928, is teh complex’s oldest (and second-largest) performance space. Although the venue underwent a major renovation eight years ago that cut the historic vaudeville house’s capacity in half, to approximately 1,100 seats, the Capitol’s sound reinforcement system hadn’t been updated for nearly two decades. The Capitol now has a new system that centers on L-Acoustics gear.
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