SURREY, U.K. —Delta Sound announced plans to acquire Sound By Design. Both companies will operate from Delta’s current HQ near Hampton Court in Surrey, with Oct. 1 set as the target date for SBD’s relocation.
Read More »STOW, OH — Audio-Technica is offering a new five-year warranty, new freight options and extended terms for its line of Engineered Sound products. The new deal is available to those in the professional installed sound market via a network of specialized sound contractors and system integrators, as opposed to retail outlets.
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SAN FRANCISCO —St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, a registered landmark built in 1895, was affected by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and along with a government-mandated seismic retrofit that addressed considerable cosmetic damage, the church commissioned a new sound system.
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DRESDEN, Germany — A Studer Vista 8 is at the heart of a new concert hall at Dresdner Hochschule für Musik (Dresden University of Music) in Germany, named after the 19th century composer, Carl Maria von Weber. More than 600 people from all over the world study music at the university.
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Bosch’s Communications Systems Division announced the release of IRIS-Net V2.1.1 software. IRIS-Net V2.1.1, with new features developed for both live audio and installation markets.
Read More »For the past couple of weeks I have been working with a couple of “veteran” sound guys trying to put together a tribute to one of the giants of live event audio industry. I have always thought that we tend to wait too long to pay tribute to people who deserve it and that we should do it while they can still see and appreciate it. It has been a moving and humbling experience.
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In 1978, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds made its debut. This year, The War of the Worlds — Alive On Stage paid homage to Wayne’s Worlds in arenas around the UK and Europe. RG Jones, meanwhile, supplied a Synco by Martin Audio-based sound system for the touring spectacle
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FOH engineer Blake Suib has a resume that includes artists from Prince to Annie Lennox and was presented on this tour with a huge challenge—covering 360 degrees without blocking very large video screens that play a big part in the show.
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I am one of the fortunate few sound guys that is also a musician and earns a living doing both. I am also one of even fewer who get the honor to travel overseas entertaining our troops, which I have been doing since 2001. These tours have taken me, multiple times, to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Italy, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and a few of the other “-stan” countries.
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When Bret Lambert, owner of Procure Distributing in Owasso, Okla., walked into the University Heights Baptist Church earlier this year, he was a bit surprised. It wasn’t the complete gutting and rebuilding of the church’s sanctuary, not the expanse of musical styling that the members perform or the fact that so much happens in this Stillwater church that they had to update their PA. No, what surprised him was what was already installed.
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I have been a fan of the X2 stuff ever since they were known as X Wire back in the 1990s. The digital transmission — which meant no companding — offered a sound at least as good as a premium cable.
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Being in the live sound business, and especially towards the ankle-biting side, I get a lot questions of how much audio power or amperes of loading a typical circuit can handle before tripping the circuit breaker.
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