SONDERSHAUSEN, GERMANY — California desert rockers Queens of the Stone Age went for a radical change of scene recently when they performed an exclusive one-off gig for 300 fans in a German salt mine.
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HAMPTON BEACH, NH – The historic Hampton Beach Casino, built in 1899, remains a leading attraction in the New England resort area, while the adjacent Casino Ballroom continually draws some of the top names in entertainment. In order to sustain its reputation as one of the best venues in which to play and hear live music, the 2,200-seat ballroom has received a major redesign of its audio and lighting systems, including the addition of a new loudspeaker system based on Meyer Sound’s MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker.
KALAMAZOO, MI – Stage Lighting and Sound, Inc. recently installed a new custom-designed Yamaha Active Field Control (AFC) reverberation enhancement system at Western Michigan University's Miller Auditorium to enhance the acoustics. The venue, built in 1968, is used for touring Broadway productions, concerts by major touring musical artists, ballet, opera and dance, and is the home of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
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LOS ANGELES – The Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles has installed an L-ACOUSTICS KIVA line source array system with KILO low frequency extension speakers in Thayer Hall, a newly constructed 200-seat performance and instruction space. The loudspeaker system, which is powered by L-ACOUSTICS LA4 amplified controllers and also includes the company’s 108P self-powered reference monitors for left, center and right stage lip fill, was specified by A/V consultants Sonitus and is integrated into a campus-wide audio and video network.
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Housing preset tunings designed to optimize the performance of QSC loudspeakers, the new SC28 System Controller facilitates quick and easy system setup. A two input, eight output DSP device, the controller additionally offers user-adjustable EQ and delay.
Read More »FRANKFURT, GERMANY – As well as exhibiting a raft of new products on Stand 8.0 A42, Turbosound will be demonstrating its Aspect series of arrayable point-source loudspeakers at the prolight+sound Live Sound Forum from March 12 through March 15.
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NEW YORK – Multi-platinum recording artist and three-time Grammy Award winner Seal autographed three Sennheiser evolution e 935 Platinum vocal microphones for a charity auction at the 4th Annual Musicians On Call benefit concert and auction. The event culminated at the Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square with a headlining performance by Seal.
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BRISTOL, PA – Singer, actress superstar, Miley Cyrus performs on her sold out "The Best of Both Worlds" tour with Future Sonics Ear Monitors brand personal monitors and supporting the company's new "BIGGER SOUND @ lower volume" campaign to help educate audiences about the importance of proper listening for the "iPod Generation."
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BERLIN – Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall (Berlin Philharmonie) is one of the city’s cultural icons. Its unique, pentagonally shaped Great Hall, with its center stage, has been praised for its intimate ambience and stellar acoustics. To meet the audio requirements for this world-class venue, a Meyer Sound system was chosen for the task.
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Well, we have officially reached the point where everyone THINKS they need a line array, whether it is appropriate to the venue or not. That being said, the ability to control dispersion can make a small array perfect for house of worship applications. The problem comes in when the church wants a line array, and it actually is the right choice, but they want something small and inconspicuous. Which is where “subcompacts” come into the picture.
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I get a call the other day from a local production company that I’ve been doing work for lately. They say they need me as an opt-out at this synagogue for two days and that it’s “the lowest level mixing gig” they’ve got. I’m like, “sure, why not?” — they're paying my rate, and I've got nothing planned those two days, anyway.
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