LONDON – Like a “Fine Studio Monitor” for Michael Bublé’s 10 consecutive sellouts at London’s O2 arena, FOH engineer Craig Doubet mixed the shows for 16,000 fans per night on a powerful Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system provided by Montreal-based Solotech.
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ROTHBURY, MI – Electric Forest, a music festival held here, features an electro-themed set of concerts that take place on six stages over the course of four days. Burst Sound & Lighting Systems, based in Detroit, was tapped to provide sound reinforcement systems for the main Tripolee stage as well as The Observatory, one of the smaller stages at the festival, with Adamson E15 line arrays.
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BADEN, Austria – TON Eichinger Professional Sound Systems provided a wireless system upgrade at the Bühne Baden theatre here. The sales and rental provider equipped the venue with Digital Hybrid Wireless technology from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics.
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QUEENSLAND, Australia – Salt House is a unique dining, bar, and entertainment venue situated at Marina Point here. Fintan Rafferty and Luis Garozzo, owners and managers of Salt House recently decided to replace the existing sound system in the main Bar and Outdoor Deck Bar. It was at this stage that the experience of Mick Evans from Talk to the Mac was enlisted. Mick worked with Syntec International, K-array’s distributor in Australia and New Zealand to come up with a K-array solution.
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BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. announces the availability of StageMix 4.0 for Yamaha CL, M7CL, and LS9 digital consoles. Updates available include new Dynamics Parameter Editing, Output Port Delay Editing, Output Port Levels (Gain/Attenuation), PEQ Copy and Paste, Phantom Power Switching, Mix Send Pre/Post Switching, HPF Slope Parameter (CL V1.5 only), Retina Display Support, and other enhancements.
Read More »LONDON, UK – After conducting an inspection of Britannia Row Productions Training prior to its opening, the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and High Education (BAC) approved the training center as a Short Course Provider. This status authorizes applicants for the Live Sound Technology course from outside the EU/EEA to also apply for a Student Visitor Visa so they can attend the London-based facility’s training program.
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FRAMINGHAM, MA – When Steven Brown, System Design & Sales Engineer at Progressive Electronics in suburban Kansas City, Missouri, saw the interior of St. Thomas More Parish Church, he knew right away that the issues that were prompting the church to search for a new sound system would not be resolved with one of the typical line array systems that have become ubiquitous in many contemporary houses of worship. So, Progressive Electronics installed a system consisting of RoomMatch loudspeakers and PowerMatch amplifiers from Bose Professional Systems Division.
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SAN DIEGO, CA – La Jolla Playhouse at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) does double-duty with its five venues: they serve students as well as professional productions. To supplement its purchased stock of DPA d:dicate mics, the university often rents additional DPA gear, turning to sound designer Eric Stahlhammer, owner of Greater Sound Designs.
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CHICAGO, IL – With locations in Chicago, Las Vegas and Nashville and a busy schedule including live productions, corporate shows, TV broadcasts and special events, On Stage Audio (OSA) continues to grow as a provider of audio rentals, service and production. To support its ongoing growth, OSA recently purchased additional Martin Audio MLA and MLA Compact enclosures. Martin Audio reports that OSA now has the largest inventory of MLA gear in North America.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – For the Nourse Theatre, a 1920s-era high school hall that now hosts San Francisco’s City Arts & Lectures program, BBI Engineering sought to optimize spoken-word intelligibility with a sound system upgrade that includes 16 Meyer Sound MINA array elements, seven UP-4XP 48 V loudspeakers as front fill, four 500HP subwoofers and a Galileo loudspeaker management system with two Galileo 616 processors.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – Sennheiser will be offering its RF Wireless Sound Academy Seminar at the Musicians Union Local 802, 322 W 48th St., in New York City on Aug. 13. The seminar costs $199 and includes continental breakfast, full lunch, workshop materials, and a $50 rebate coupon good towards Sennheiser and Neumann products. Participants who complete the seminar will earn 6 RU CTS credits.
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NASHVILLE — Morris Light & Sound is supporting Kenny Chesney’s 46-date No Shoes Nation tour with a Nexo STM line array system that includes 74 M46 for mains, 74 b112 bass extensions, 48 s118 flown subs, 16 RS18 ground ray subs, 12 PS10s for front fills, 14 GEO S 1210s and two GEO S1230s, 22 NUAR amp racks and two Yamaha DME 64 digital mix engines with LAKE Mesa EQ cards for system tuning and console switching.
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