BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. (YCAS) has added two manufacturer rep firms for NEXO speaker products: R. Joseph Group (Columbus, Ohio) and Highway Marketing (Dallas, Texas).
Read More »ELKHART, IN —Bartlett Microphones is making available free tutorials on microphones and their application on the company Web site. Some topics covered are boundary microphones, directional boundary microphones, preventing feedback and mic techniques for theater.
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PARIS — BS Technology used a Riedel RockNet digital audio network for this year’s July 14 Bastille Day celebration. Apex, Riedel Communications’ partner in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, delivered the RockNet gear.
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BEMIDJI, MN — NLFX Professional recently installed an Electro-Voice sound system at Creekside Christian Fellowship in Needville, Texas, outside of Houston. With the help of EV’s IRIS-Net remote-control and supervision software, NLFX continues to monitor the performance of Creekside’s new system from its offices here, nearly 1,500 miles away.
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LOUISVILLE, KY — The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) purchased 24 new Yamaha TX6n amplifiers late last year from Capitol Design Group in preparation for this year’s event, held at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center.
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VIENNA, Austria — Winning singer Darko Lazic couldn’t be accused of having an unfair advantage for Zvezde Granda, the Serbian equivalent of American Idol. All seven of the contest’s finalists, who sang at Belgrade Arena before 18,000, and millions more watching TV, used AKG WMS 450 wireless microphones supplied by production vendor Studio Berar.
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LONDON —Brian Eno celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with the first of two live performances of his 1983 composition Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks in the IMAX Cinema at London’s Science Museum.
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MINNETONKA, MN — Electronic Design Company (EDC) installed the audio equipment for the 680-seat proscenium theater at Minnetonka’s renovated Arts Center on 7, which included a NEXO GEO S8 system in a left-center-right sub configuration.
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CHICAGO — For the past five years, Fall Out Boy FOH engineer Kyle Chirnside has been manning the controls. For the band’s current world tour, Chirnside is turning to the Midas PRO6.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications, expanded its RockNet team with the addition of Thorsten Schulze, who was named product manager for multimedia and entertainment.
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FORT BENNING, GA — The National Infantry Museum, which honors the oldest and largest branch of the U.S. Army, features an attraction called The Last 100 Yards, and Edwards Technologies of El Segundo, Calif., used Renkus-Heinz Iconyx steerable array loudspeakers in its portrayal of 234 years of infantry history.
Read More »A video started making the rounds as FOH’s August 2009 issue was going to press that appears to at least imply that the unbreakable tie between certain Digidesign software and approved hardware has been cracked. Or maybe it is a marketing strategy. Bottom line is that at least on the lower-end of the audio spectrum, you can now run Pro Tools (and the plug ins that have become such a hot ticket in the live audio realm) using a Mackie Onyx mixer as the front end.
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