TRONDHEIM, Norway —The Olavshallen concert hall has been equipped with a Midas XL8 digital mixing console, supplied by Midas’ Norwegian distributor AVAB CAC. The XL8 will be used to host a range of musical events at the 1,250-capacity venue.
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NIAGARA, NY — Westbury National Show Systems recently installed a full surround sound system using JBL’s VP series loudspeakers for Niagara’s Fury, a new immersive attraction at the Table Rock complex at Niagara Falls. Fury is the cornerstone of renovations at Table Rock, a Niagara Falls destination for shopping, dining and entertainment.
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WAVERLY, OH — JSL Productions, which recently provided live sound reinforcement for the Christian rock band Fireflight’s recent Hope tour, used their Aero Series 2 sound system from D.A.S. Audio.
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NEW DELHI, India — As many as 50,000 students from across Southeast Asia flooded into the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus for the seven-day Pulse festival featuring rock bands Sonu Nigam, Euphoria, and Motherjane.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Musicorps, a program based at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, uses music as therapy for wounded American soldiers. Provided by the nonprofit organization Renovation In Music Education (RIME), Musicorps encourages injured veterans to work on goal-oriented projects many hours a day.
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BERKELEY, CA — Matthew “Smitty” Smith, the programming director and venue development consultant for The Starry Plough Pub and Nightclub, credits the venue’s new Meyer Sound CQ-1 loudspeaker system for helping draw talent and fans.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — Lucinda Williams’ monitor engineer Seth Kendall specified a Neumann KMS 105 for the artist's vocals, which, when paired with a Sennheiser ew 300 IEM G2 wireless personal monitor system, lets him deliver monitor mixes that, in his words, “absolutely sparkle.”
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DUBLIN — Allen & Heath’s Irish distributor, Rea Sound, has reported the recent sale of eight iLive-T series digital mixing systems to customers in Ireland, including various combinations of iDR-32 and iDR-48 MixRacks with iLive-T80 and iLive-T112 Control Surfaces.
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LAS VEGAS — Meeting Services, Inc. technical director Ken Freeman credited a combination of “great sound, reliable performance, and easy array configurability” for the company’s selection of VerTec line arrays at the AARP’s Vegas@50+ convention held recently at the Sands Expo Convention Center.
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EVANSTON, IL — John Legend recently performed for an audience of 5,500 at the Welsh-Ryan Arena on the campus of Northwestern University. Gand Concert Sound provided audio for the event, produced by A&O Productions. SCS Productions provided lighting and staging.
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LEICESTER, MA — Compared to the age of its campus, which dates back to 1784, Becker College/Leicester’s gym is a youngster — it’s only been around for about 37 years. Even so, its 37-year-old sound system was overdue for an upgrade. The new system installed by Wavelengths Pro Audio included an Ashly ne24.24M matrix processor with Ashly remote control units.
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LONDON — The Star Wars saga is looming large via Star Wars: In Concert, where a live symphony orchestra and chorus performs John Williams’ film score beneath HD projections from the six Star Wars films on a 60-by-30-foot screen. FOH mixer Steve Colby is using Studer’s Vista 5 SR digital live mixing console for the tour.
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