BATON ROUGE, LA – Premier Sound Services (PSS), a sound company founded in 2003, announced the move of its headquarters to a new location. The new address is PSS, 14141 Airline Hwy Bldg 1 Ste L, Baton Rouge, LA 70817.
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LOS ANGELES – Popular ’80s group Culture Club returns to the road on its Tribes North American tour with a DiGiCo SD7 console at monitor position, much to the delight of the desk’s operator, Nikoma “Niko” Bell. California-based Sound Image provided the audio equipment for the tour.
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QUEBEC CITY – Metallica’s longtime FOH engineer “Big Mick” Hughes is not one to shy from innovation, and continues to achieve firsts more than 30 years into his career with the band. For the first time, Metallica used an in-the-round Meyer Sound LEO Family loudspeaker system with 1100-LFC low frequency control elements in a TM Array configuration when the band inaugurated the 20,000-capacity Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada.
Read More »BEIJING — A wooden stage estimated to be about 10 feet above the floor below gave way during a Nov. 28 choral performance with dozens of singers at Beihang University’s school of aeronautical engineering. Most of those on stage at the time fell; 25 were hospitalized. An LED screen also toppled over and fell to the lower level from one side of the stage.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Pure AV recently installed Martin Audio O-Line arrays to solve ambient noise problems in Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry Power Hall.
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IBIZA – At Lio Ibiza a Cabaret Theatre, Restaurant and Club, Head of Sound Toni Prats used a d&b audiotechnik solution with custom AmpPresets.
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BEIJING – For Song Fei’s “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” musical, which is based on a famous painting with the same name, the production’s sound designer opted for Alcons QR24 pro-ribbon sound system. The musical was staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing for two days in November.
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MONTREAL – When Red Bull’s version of a soapbox derby “La Course Red Bull Boîte à Savon 2015”, hit the streets of Montreal, a compact Rec4Box OB Factory van equipped with Riedel Communications gear provided master control capabilities supporting live production and streaming of the event. Riedel’s fiber-based RockNet real-time audio network and Artist digital matrix intercom system gave the event producers, Ocean Watch Productions and Red Bull Media House, a solution for audio transport and communications.
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BERLIN — West End sound designer Rick Clarke switched to Point Source Audio’s SERIES8 microphones for a production of the musical, Chicago, in Germany this fall.
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LOS ANGELES — ATK Audiotek marked 25 years of providing audio support for the American Music Awards (AMAs), held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Nov. 22. The loudspeaker system got a boost from Powersoft K10 DSP+AESOP Amplifiers and Armonia DSP software.
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SAVANNAH, GA — Consultant Michael Gaster received his new Roland M-5000 OHRCA live mixing console one day before a challenging outdoor gig earlier this year– the Savannah Philharmonic. The console helped him tackle that challenge despite the lack of a sound check and he’s been using the console ever since.
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