Electro-Voice LAPS V2.2A
Electro-Voice released LAPS V2.2A; this new version of LAPS, the Electro-Voice line array modeling and design program, is available for free download from the EV Web site.
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Brooks & Dunn Tour with AKG Wireless Gear
NASHVILLE, TN — Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn are currently on tour promoting their tenth album, Cowboy Town, and their monitor engineer, Kurt Springer, is using an AKG wireless system with over 30 AKG products.
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City Church Spreads The Word with Allen & Heath iLive
KIRKLAND, WA — With a congregation of about 7,000 worshippers spread over six locations, City Church opted to connect its main Kirkland campus with its other locations via satellite, enabling live broadcasts. Designer Justin Friesen created a networked audio solution based around Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing consoles supplied by Lift AV in Renton, WA, and GC Pro in Seattle.
Read More »New SANE Protocol for Large-Scale Networks Launched by Optocore
MUNICH — Promising the first fully-synchronous CAT5 media streaming system for streaming uninterrupted media in real time, Optocore has introduced SANE (Synchronous Audio Network plus Ethernet), a new digital audio networking protocol.
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Springtime for Digital in Theater? DiGiCo’s SD8 Meets “The Producers”
Jason Choquette used an SD8 for the two-week summer production.
NEW BEDFORD, MA — Some of the costumes and set elements for the two-week run of The Producers at the New Bedford Festival Theatre this summer may have been the same as those used for the Tony-award-winning Broadway production starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, but the sound was definitely new, with Jason Choquette using DiGiCo’s SD8 console as a key part of the production’s sound system design.
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Powersoft Names Mittelmann Business Development Manager
From left, Luca Giorgi, Claudio Lastrucci, Thomas Mittelmann and Carlo Lastrucci
FLORENCE, Italy — Powersoft named Thomas Mittelmann Business evelopment Manager. Mittelman’s experience includes nearly eight years with Lab.gruppen.
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Adlib Audio Supports Reading and Leeds Festivals
Florence and the Machine
READING, U.K. and LEEDS, U.K. — Adlib Audio’s festival season continued at Reading and Leeds, where the company once again supplied full audio production, including over 90 JBL VerTec 4889 elements, and crew for the Radio 1/NME stage at the 2009 events. Identical systems were supplied to both Reading and Leeds sites.
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5 Star Cases Helps DiGiCo Celebrate 500th SD8
L-R: Keith Sykes, 5 Star, with James Gordon, MD, DiGiCo, at PLASA09.
LONDON. — 5 Star Cases Ltd. helped celebrate the making of the 500th SD8 digital console by donating the flightcase to DiGiCo for a special occasion honoring the memory of two sound engineers, John Roden and Jim Douglas.
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Dennis DeYoung to Host Parnelli Awards
LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Directors has announced that Dennis DeYoung will be hosting the Parnelli Awards Nov. 20 in Orlando. DeYoung wrote and performed “Come Sail Away,” “Babe," "Lady" and many other hits for Styx, and he also played a key role in the band’s themed albums and theatrical and visually groundbreaking shows.
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Alcons BRK5LR7 “Line-array on a Stick”
A new swivel bracket extends the flexibility of Alcons LR7 micro pro-ribbon line-array system. With its new swivel yoke, up to five LR7 cabinets in stand-configuration and up to seven LR7 cabinets in flown configuration can be stand- or truss-mounted with the new BRK5LR7 unit.
Read More »Klark Teknik Announces AES50 Protocol Developments
LONDON — Klark Teknik has signed agreements with AuviTran and ZP Engineering to make SuperMAC and HyperMAC technology available to the audio industry without having to pay royalties on an ongoing basis.
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EAW JFL210 and JFL118 Specified for Cardiff School
CARDIFF, U.K. — Part of Wales’ University of Glamorgan, the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries’ division of Music and Sound is using EAW JFL Series units to educate music and technology students on live sound reproduction and professional audio equipment application. A.C. Entertainment Technologies supplied the system. The gear includes four EAW JFL210 Compact Line Array Modules and four EAW JFL118 Subwoofers.
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