BERKELEY, CA — After winning the 2013 Grammy Song of the Year and Best New Artist awards, indie pop band fun’s “Most Nights” tour has been packing music venues across 34 North American cities throughout the summer. Montreal-based Solotech provided the tour with a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Arena recently hosted Rock for Oklahoma, a benefit concert for Oklahoma tornado victims that featured Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips, Jackson Browne and Built to Spill. Concert audio was provided by Oklahoma City live sound rental contractor Miller Pro Audio. Owner Danny Miller and his crew, FOH Engineer Nick Walsh, Systems Engineer Aaron Oliver, and Systems Tech Kip Montgomery provided the PA with a system comprised of JBL loudspeakers and Crown amplifiers. Proceeds from the event benefited the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund.
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SEATTLE, WA — Living Colour, touring in support of the 25th anniversary of their debut release, Vivid, is on the road with Behringer’s X32 console at both FOH and monitors
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OLD LYME, CT – Launched at last year’s IBC, Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 wireless system has been adopted by a wide array of production companies for an even wider array of live, theatrical and broadcast mixing needs, including Eurovision 2013, pictured here.
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RCF offers three new subwoofers: the S8015-II, S8018-II e S8028-II, all touted for designs promising improved sound and power for audio installations.
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – The recently-completed Juárez Vive stadium here features an architectural design that suggest that the stadium is rising into the air. Stadium officials turned to Clarity Incorporated for the sound design, which included Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers with support from Ashly amplifiers and Symetrix processing.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The West Coast premiere of the musical, 1776, is now playing at the American Conservatory Theater’s (A.C.T.)’s Geary Theater here through Oct. 6, 2013. The production, by Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati, features a sound design by Kevin Kennedy. To complement the existing in-house audio equipment, Masque Sound provided a custom speaker package including Meyer UPM-1Ps and XTA speaker management processors and a monitor package of Aviom A-16II mixers and Aviom A-16D Pro Distribution systems. The system also includes Sennheiser wireless and cabled Shure and Neumann mics along with Radial DI’s.
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SINGAPORE — The Star Performing Arts Centre here has installed a Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom system throughout its 5,000-seat auditorium. The system also supports the facility’s various function halls along with its broadcast production center.
Read More »QUINCY, WA — The 20,000-capacity Gorge Amphitheatre here, managed by Live Nation, was forced to cancel the show set for Sept. 28 featuring Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson due to “severe, unseasonable weather,” venue management noted on a Facebook posting, adding that it was the first weather-related cancellation at the venue in 27 years.
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Rock Hard Road Cases’ Evolution Series Tilting Mixer Case is designed to work as a stand for the audio mixing console that it protects in transit. It complies with ATA specifications and also promises to reduce your need for space, time and a chiropractor. There are models available for the Avid SC 48, Avid Profile Surface, Allen & Heath iLive T112, Yamaha CL3 and CL5, Yamaha M7-CL 32 and 48 Channel Mixer and Case.
Read More »WASHINGTON, DC and NEW YORK — Guerilla Union, organizer of the Rock the Bells 2013 Festival Series, announced that the events planned for Washington DC (RFK Stadium Festival Grounds, Sept. 28-29) and the New York metro area (Meadowlands Race Track, Oct. 4-5) were canceled “due to a lack of ticket sales,” according to an announcement on the organizer’s website, rockthebells.net.
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OXFORD, U.K. — Solid State Logic announced that its SSL Live console, which made a surprise preview at Prolight + Sound in April 2013, is now shipping. Britannia Row ordered the first three SSL Live consoles; they will help support Peter Gabriel’s European ‘Back to Front’ tour. Another two consoles have been shipped to SGroup in France for the Amel Bent tour. Pictured here, SSL’s headquarters staff celebrates the milestone.
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