ST. LOUIS, MO — When The Muny kicked off its 2012 musical theater season, Masque Sound, a leading theatrical sound reinforcement, installation and design company, was backstage, providing audio equipment and services for the St. Louis institution.
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TURKU, Finland — Allen & Heath’s Finnish distributor, Noretron Audio Ltd., has finalized a deal with Viking Line Abp to install iLive digital mixing systems and MixWizard analog rackmount mixers in the company’s new M/S Viking Grace cruise ship.
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LONDON — Steve Watson used for his recently-purchased DiGiCo SD11i to meet the challenges of mixing a 14-night run of performances of SUM at the Linbury Studio Theatre venue within the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden here recently. The opera is based upon David Eagleman’s book, Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — Starlite Productions provided the Boogie Nights dance club at the Tropicana Casino and Resort here with an audio system featuring the new JBL Marquis Dance Club Series loudspeakers from Harman.
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LAS VEGAS — The best of the live entertainment industry are coming to Las Vegas for the Parnelli Awards this October, and before the awards, they’ll be on the links playing in the PLSN/FOH Parnelli Celebrity Classic golf tournament on Thursday, October 18 at the Arroyo Golf Club in Las Vegas. And speaking of the awards, the cut-off for nominations — including the extended deadline for Indispensable Technology (“IT”) award nominations — is this Friday, Aug. 31 — at NOON (PST).
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SAN FRANCISCO — For three days in August, an estimated 100,000 fans converged at the sold-out Outside Lands festival here. With must-sees including Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Metallica, and Foo Fighters, this year’s lineup at the Lands End main stage was supported by Meyer Sound’s new LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system.
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KINROSS-SHIRE, Scotland — EFX Audio provided two Midas XL8s and a PRO2C at FOH, and one PRO6 and one PRO9 at monitors, for the Radio 1 / NME Stage at this year’s muddy T in the Park festival, staged here.
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TOKYO — L-Acoustics’ Japanese distributor, Bestec Audio, has supplied a KARA/KUDO WST line source system to Orchard Hall in Tokyo’s Bunkamura complex. Located in the Shibuya district, the large cultural facility was the first of its kind in Japan and consists of a concert hall, theatre, museum, cinema, cafés and art shops.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — CTS Audio recently deployed more than 50 of Harman’s Crown I-Tech HD Series and XTi Series amplifiers to power a JBL VerTec line array system for the Covenant High in Christ (CHIC) youth conference earlier this summer. The five-day event, staged at the University of Tennessee’s 25,000-seat Thompson-Boling Arena, featured numerous inspirational speakers and musical performers.
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Peavey PVX Series loudspeakers are the culmination of decades of R&D and experience building portable, all-in-one audio solutions. The PVX Series promises a combination of performance and reliability with modern design for audio pros and musicians of all levels.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus held a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 22 for its new headquarters and research facility at 19151 Highland Road here, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and other VIP guests in attendance. The new 44,000-square-foot building will cost approximately $8.3 million, including land and development.
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