Inaugural Life Is Beautiful Festival Gets PWS Wireless Support

LAS VEGAS — When the first-ever Life Is Beautiful music, art and food festival, took over 15 square blocks of downtown Las Vegas on Oct. 26th and 27th, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) was on location providing frequency coordination for the more than 80 musical acts, performers and media outlets throughout the two-day celebration.

ROSENBERG, TX – For 12,000-seat Guy K. Traylor Stadium here, home to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District High School football team, Stafford, TX-based Firetron provided a new system that includes JBL CBT Series column loudspeakers from Harman. The setup includes four JBL CBT 200LA-1 column loudspeakers on each long side of the stadium, with four behind the home team stands and four behind the visiting team stands. The system is powered with Crown IT6000 amplifiers with BSS BLU-100 processing.

FLERO, Brescia, Italy – Outline has dedicated a new website to its iMode platform for audio system control, noting that modern loudspeaker systems require more sophisticated layers of control than those of the past.

MADISON, WI – The Overture Center for the Arts complex here includes seven performance facilities and four art galleries. The complex’s Capitol Theater venue, which dates back to 1928, is teh complex’s oldest (and second-largest) performance space. Although the venue underwent a major renovation eight years ago that cut the historic vaudeville house’s capacity in half, to approximately 1,100 seats, the Capitol’s sound reinforcement system hadn’t been updated for nearly two decades. The Capitol now has a new system that centers on L-Acoustics gear.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is the staged musical collaboration between author Stephen King, singer/songwriter John Mellencamp and composer and producer T Bone Burnett. Drummer Dane Clark is touring with Auralex Acoustics’ HoverMat and HoverDeck Isolation Riser.

FRANKLIN, TN — Eddie Mapp, front of house engineer with eclectic alt-rock/pop band Paramore, is using three sE Electronics Voodoo VR1 Ribbon Microphones and a pair of patented IRF2 Instrument Reflexion Filters with the band on tour. Paramore is currently on an arena tour of Latin America before heading to Europe for a month in support of its self-titled fourth album, which made its debut at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart in April.

LANSING, MI — The 18-screen multiplex NCG Eastwood Cinemas in Lansing, Mich. has selected a Meyer Sound cinema loudspeaker system for its premium “Xtreme” screening room. The installation comprises three Acheron 100 and three Acheron LF screen channel loudspeakers, 10 X-800C cinema subwoofers and 26 HMS-10 cinema surround loudspeakers. The system is driven and optimized by a Galileo loudspeaker management system with three Galileo 616 processors.

MADISON, WI – In time for the football season, Daktronics recently redesigned the video board and audio system at the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium. Home to the Wisconsin Badgers football team, the stadium seats 80,321 people and is the 41^st largest stadium in the world. To match the intensity of some of college football’s most dedicated fans, Daktronics selected Harman’s JBL VLA Series line array loudspeakers for the new audio system.