WOODINVILLE, WA — Marking 20 years since the introduction of its CR-1604, Mackie staged a 20 Years Running contest, and recently announced a winner: Badger Koon, whose YouTube video documents his return from vacation to find his Mackie SRM450 Active speakers almost completely submerged from a mudslide that inundated his house.
Read More »RCF named Alessandro Barbieri as the new sales area manager for the Far East. Barbieri’s previous experience includes positions for other Italian firms operation in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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NILES, IL — Shure Inc. named Rick Renner Regional Sales Manager for the Northeast. Before joining Shure, Renner served for seven years as regional sales manager and sales representative at Sennheiser Electronics Corporation. Before that, he was a staff recording engineer at Streeterville Recording Studios in Chicago.
Read More »ATLANTA — Commercial Audio Systems announced that it had hired Kyle Stewart as operations manager, Neal Carney, Jr., as sales engineer and Jay Foster as sales manager.
Read More »WIXOM, MI — Signature Professional Group (SPG), which produces municipal summer concert series in Plymouth, Northville and Wixom, Mich., recently added Port Huron to the list. SPG will produce five Thursday night shows for the Port Huron Rockin’ the Rivers series in August.
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LONDON — Midas and Klark Teknik have brought their U.K. distributorship in house. Rob Hughes, previously employed by Shuttlesound to handle the brands, has joined Midas and Klark Teknik to continue his role as U.K. sales consultant.
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MIDLAND, TX — Founded in 1892, First Baptist Church (FBC) of Midland, Texas is one of the oldest and largest churches in the Lone Star State. Taipale Media Systems and Summit Integrated Systems recently upgraded the sound system with Danley loudspeakers.
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LOS ANGELES — Pro Media/UltraSound supplied a Meyer Sound MILO line array system to support the return of The Dead with the band’s first concert tour in five years.
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BUENOS AIRES— Buenos Aires Live Show (BALS) chose Proel’s Edge system for stage monitors during Elton John’s first tour stop in Argentina in 16 years. James Blunt opened the show.
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FORT MYERS, FL — To audiences, it may appear to work by magic. But the orchestration of all the audio gear used for the second North American tour for Broadway’s Wicked doesn’t involve any bubbling brew or witch’s mumbo-jumbo. Instead, the traveling production relies upon Wireworks’ fiber-optic audio distribution system.
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NASHVILLE — The CMT Music Awards made room for artists as diverse as the B-52s and the U.K.’s Def Leppard along with more traditional American country music stars.
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