TORONTO – Duran Duran's longtime FOH engineer, Snake Newton, supported the band's recent North American tour with Adamson's Project Energia. The six-week tour was a build up for Duran Duran's All You Need is Now album due for release in early 2012. Energia beta partner, Eighth Day Sound out of Cleveland, provided PA and the crew for all of the North American dates.
Read More »SAN DIEGO – AES' 44th International Conference on Audio Networking is set for Nov. 18-20 at the University of California, San Diego, in the Atkinson Building, home of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2). Audinate, creator of Dante, is a co-sponsor for the event.
Read More »OLD LYME, CT – Sennheiser announced that several of its Sennheiser Sound Academy programs now qualify for InfoComm Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) renewal units (RU). Those with InfoComm CTS certification (including CTS, CTS-D and CTS-I) are required to earn RU credits periodically in order to keep their certification current.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA – Blue Microphones named Brian Biggott chief technology officer. Biggott, who joined Blue in 2008 in association with Transom Capital Group's acquisition of the company, has led Blue's research and development team through 17 product launches, from concept development to production, over the past three years. As CTO, Biggott will continue to lead Blue's product development for consumer and professional markets.
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LONDON – An American football game might not be a rarity in October. But this one, pitting the Chicago Bears against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, took place at London's Wembley Stadium. By the time the Bears beat the Bucs, 24-18, some 77,000 fans had also had the chance to listen to pregame shows by the Goo Goo Dolls, Noah Stewart and Katherine Jenkins. Britannia Row Productions provided an extensive Outline loudspeaker system for the event.
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SAN DIEGO – Sound Image recently completed a sound system upgrade at the 2,967-seat San Diego Civic Theatre that included JBL loudspeakers, Crown amplifiers and BSS processors. WRL Sound Consultants provided the audio system design.
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PLOIESTI, Romania – FBS Lines, RCF's distributor in Romania, provided audio gear for Ilie Oana Stadium, a soccer stadium here. The installation included 24 RCF P6215 and 28 RCF P4228 speakers to cover the tribune sections of the stadium. The speakers are powered by six RCF DPS 3000 amplifiers and controlled by two RCF DX 4008 digital loudspeaker management units and other RCF gear.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany – Organizers for Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to his native Germany relied upon Riedel Communications and its products for secure communications for the five main events linked to the papal visit. Riedel gear also played a key role distributing audio and video signals for both the broadcast networks and for the on-site video walls.
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PENSACOLA, FL – David Ebbert of Walthall & Associates designed the sound system for the National Flight Academy's (NFA) National Naval Aviation Museum. Set to launch in early 2012, the museum will be relying heavily upon Ashly Audio amplifiers for sound effects and paging.
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BOTHELL, WA – Music Group named Vishal Joshi customer support manager for India. Joshi will manage the region's key accounts and customers and provide local promotional support for the Behringer and Bugera brands.
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MONTEREY, CA – McCune Audio/Video/Lighting, which has been handling the audio services for the Monterey Jazz Fest since the 1960s, purchased their first DiGiCo, an SD10, and used it at this year's 54th annual festival. The SD10 handled FOH duties at the Dizzy's Den stage, which featured interview segments during the day and evening musical performances from John Pizzarelli, Donny McCaslin, Wil Blades and Hiromi, among others.
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BUENA PARK, CA – Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. announces the development of the MY8-LAKE processing card for Yamaha digital products. The new card, to be distributed worldwide by Yamaha, adds new Lake Technology to PM5D, PM5D-RH, M7CL, LS9, DM2000, DM1000, 02R96, and 01V96 digital consoles, as well as DSP5D Expander, DME24N/64N processors, and TXn power amplifiers.
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