ADELAIDE, Australia — Firehouse Productions is supporting the current world tour for the Arctic Monkeys, including a Soundcraft Vi6 digital audio console for monitor mixing. Monitor engineer Will Doyle uses the desk to run stereo ears, wedges and side fills.
Read More »HIGHLAND PARK, NJ – Industry veterans Damian Doria and Alec Stoll have formed Stages Consultants, a theatre planning and design practice. The firm opened Jan. 3 with the focus on full-service consultation on acoustics and theatre design. Stages’ principals have nearly 40 years of consulting experience and another 30 in the performing arts industry.
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WESTBURY, NY — Frank Farrell, technical director and monitor engineer for Kenny Rogers’ 30th annual Christmas & Hits Tour, which runs from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, credited Astatic’s 1700VP remote control variable pattern mics for helping to solve a perennial challenge: miking the different choirs from local colleges, churches and high schools that perform as part of the show.
Read More »STOW, OH — Audio-Technica is celebrating “50 Years of Passionate Listening” with special events, promotions and commemorative products in 2012. From its humble beginnings as a manufacturer of phonograph cartridges, A-T has emerged as a leading manufacturer of a wide range of products for the professional recording, M.I., live sound, broadcast, fixed installation and consumer audio markets. “At Audio-Technica, ‘always listening’ is much more than just a slogan,” said Phil Cajka, Audio-Technica U.S. President and CEO. “It’s how we do business.”
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Audix is adding the FP Quad drum mic pack to its Fusion series, positioned as a low-cost alternative to the DP Quad drum mic pack that Audix introduced in 2011. It includes the F6 dynamic microphone for kick drum, the F5 dynamic microphone for snare drum and two F9 condensers microphones for overhead applications.
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D.A.S. Audio’s Action Series loudspeakers include six models in active and passive configurations; 12 models in all. They include the Action M12 and powered M12A floor monitors; Action 12 and 12A loudspeakers; Action 15 and 15A loudspeakers; dual-transducer Action 215 and 215A loudspeakers; Action 18 and 18A subwoofers and dual-transducer Action 218 and 218A subwoofers.
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GUANGZHOU, China — Sound designer Richard Booker, who works with sound designer Bobby Aiken and has been involved with 21 different productions of Mamma Mia! around the world, marveled that the medium-sized musical’s audio needs, including 83 inputs and 54 outputs, are being met by a compact DiGiCo SD8 mixing console. Booker, seated, is pictured here with Taiwanese sound operator Kevin Wang.
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BOSTON — To address the need for enhanced coverage for those seated in the balcony at Emerson College’s Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston Light & Sound revisited venue, updating the older EAW components they had provided in 1999 and 2003 with newer gear, including 10 EAW NTL720 compact, self-powered 3-way line array loudspeaker modules.
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EDINBURGH, U.K. — Electrosonic upgraded some of the key audio/visual components in the Scottish Government’s Media Centre at St. Andrew’s House in Edinburgh. The Centre has the facility to run presentations, record proceedings and relay images to an adjacent room.
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