NAEBA, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival, held July 26-28 at this resort area in the mountains an hour west of Tokyo, is one of the island nation’s largest summer music events. This year, the White Stage was equipped with an Outline large-format line-source rig that included 24 GTO elements, 2 GTO-DF’s, and 18 ground-installed DBS 18-2 subwoofers.
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OXFORD, UK – Solid State Logic is pleased to welcome HD Pro Audio as its Live console dealer in the U.K. As a leading supplier of professional audio systems, HD Pro Audio has a long-standing history of delivering its live sound expertise, quality products and complete solutions to installers and rental companies for prestigious venues and major live events.
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DORTMUND, GERMANY — As the largest football stadium in the German Bundesliga, with a capacity of over 80,000, Signal Iduna Park — home of Borussia Dortmund (BVB) — recently sanctioned a radical upgrade to its public address system. With this upgrade, RCF deployed 14 RCF clusters of 14 TTL33-A MKII line array elements.
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TRUSSVILLE, AL –First Baptist Church of Trussville (Ala.), one of the oldest churches in Alabama – founded nearly 190 years ago – reaching a younger audience involved the introduction of an on-site student facility where children and adolescents can gather to pray, study, or socialize. To assist with the development of the student facility, First Baptist presented Elite Multimedia, a professional sound, lighting, and video company based in Memphis (Tenn.), with the difficult task of creating a warm, fun and engaging environment while keeping the church’s tight budget in mind.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – When the Port of Los Angeles began construction on the new, expanded Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX three years ago, there was an unspoken understanding that the new structure would have to be an architectural tour-de-force, and a befitting ‘first impression’ for this iconic international city. In order to get the ‘first impression’ experience, VSA’s design team created a sophisticated system based around ICONYK digitally steerable arrays from Renkus-Heinz.
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MARCOUSSIS CEDEX, France — Robbie Williams’ ‘Take the Crown’ European stadium tour, his first solo tour for seven years, kicked off on June 14 of this year, taking in 11 countries across June, July and August. Sherif el Barbari, Audio System Designer and System Engineer for Robbie Williams, designed and spec’d the entire PA system around the requirements of the tour. Britannia Row, who had already serviced Robbie Williams’ tours for almost two decades, supplied the entire L-Acoustics audio equipment for the tour.
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WEST SUSSEX, UK — Turbosound’s Flashline and Flex Array line array PA systems were once again centre stage at this year’s Zurich Open Air Festival, held over the weekend of August 29th. Germany’s Flashline rental partner FeedBack Show Systems & Service GmbH provided sound and lights for the three stages.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors tallied last month’s nominations from FRONT of HOUSE readers and the final voting has begun, with an online ballot at parnelliawards.com/vote. Until the final witching hour — Oct. 31, at noon PST — FOH readers will be able to cast their votes for 2013’s top designers, production rental companies and products in the realms of sound, lighting, staging and video.
Read More »NEW YORK — Carnegie Hall’s Oct. 2 opening night gala featuring violinist Joshua Bell and the Philadelphia Orchestra was canceled due to a stagehand strike. At issue: a disagreement between the venue and IATSE Local 1 on whether an educational wing at Carnegie Hall, to be opened next year, would be employing the union’s workers.
Read More »MONTREAL — ADJ named SF Marketing, based here, as its distributor for ADJ Lighting, American Audio and Global Truss America/DuraTruss products in Canada. SF Marketing covers all 13 of Canada’s provinces and territories, serving end-users in the pro audio, DJ and MI retail markets along with rental and staging companies and commercial integrators.
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NEW YORK – Duran Audio BV, based in The Netherlands, has added Keith Caggiano to the company’s Product Support Group. Caggiano, who comes to Duran Audio after a successful career as a Broadway sound designer, already has a detailed knowledge of the company’s products.
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LAKE FOREST, IL—When TC Furlong started his company as the sole proprietor back in 1973 after graduating high school, he and best friend Tom Danley (as in Danley Labs) developed the Steamer loudspeaker, which is still in use today.
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