BERLIN, Germany – Meyer Sound’s MM-4XP miniature loudspeakers debuted at an arts facility called MADE. Located on the ninth floor of a high-rise building in downtown Berlin, the 400 square-meter space is designed for artists to exhibit interdisciplinary projects and can be divided into five separate areas for various functions, including music performances.
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CUMBRIA, U.K. –Ward Steedsy provided the PA for the Dance Tent, one of the main performance stages for Solfest, a non-commercial music and arts festival staged annually in northwest England.
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CHESTER, PA – Supergroup YOSO, which includes Toto singer Bobby Kimball, and Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye of Yes, has been touring to support their album Elements with Community’s M-Class monitors. Paul Doty, CEO of tour providers West Coast Sound and Light, served as FOH engineer for the tour.
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LONDON – D.A.S. Audio’s Road Series of monitors have been used extensively this past summer by APR Audio, based in Wellington, U.K., to support outdoor festivals, including London’s Feis, the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury and the Hop Farm festival in Kent.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – SkyBar has generated buzz in part because of its location: on a piece of reclaimed land jutting out from the port area into the Mediterranean Sea, with a roof that opens to the sky and exposes speaker gear to the elements.
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GATESHEAD, U.K. – The Sage Gateshead, a center for musical education, performances and conferences, has installed a Midas PRO9 live performance system at its FOH position in the main auditorium.
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SYDNEY, Australia – Currently playing at the Lyric Theater, the musical Hairspray features an audio design by Michael Waters for Jands Production Services that includes the use of 26 Shure UHF-R Micro Bodypack Transmitters (UR1M) and Shure UR4D Dual Receivers.
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TURIN, Italy – The recently-opened, 41,000-seat Juventus soccer stadium has been equipped with RCF loudspeakers, provided by RCF’s commercial audio department, which was also involved with the audio design for other buildings in the sports complex.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM – David Felberg, violinist and concert master for the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, is using a Lectrosonics UM400 transmitter, an R400A receiver and a customized MI33A instrument cable to help him overcome the challenges of fitting into live mixes seamlessly.
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JERSEY, PA – Stage 2 Productions, which manages production of the annual Jersey festival, Grassroots, used Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing consoles throughout the site, including iDR10, iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks with iLive-176, iLive-T112 and iLive-R72 control surfaces. The artist lineup for the festival included Arrested Development, Easy Star All-stars, Ben Howard and Seasick Steve.
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BERKELEY, CA – Meyer Sound's MILO loudspeakers toured the U.S. with Slightly Stoopid for the band's Seedless Summer Tour. Rainbow Production Services from Hampstead, NH provided the system. The setup included 24 MILO line array loudspeakers and 18 700-HP subwoofers for front of house, with two MICA line array loudspeakers over one 700-HP per side for side fills. Six UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers were used for front-fill, six MJF-212A stage monitors and one more 700-HP subwoofer for drums.
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LONDON – PLASA 2011 got underway Sept. 11 with its perennial focus on the latest new gear. Highlights included Midas' PRO2/PRO2C, Lake's LM 44 digital audio system processor and Lab.gruppen's E Series amplifiers. Also drawing interest were Outline's GTO-DF, JoeCo's BlackBox BBR64-MADI Recorder and Allen & Heath's Waves SoundGrid interface for iLive, among many other new gear offerings. The show runs through Sept. 14.
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