CHICAGO, IL – Sensaphonics recently added three audiologists to its “Gold Circle” network, including the group’s first Brazilian member. The two-day Gold Circle seminar, held June 21-22, included teaching sessions at Sensaphonics headquarters plus a hands-on lab session with a live band held at Mystery Street Recording Company (pictured here) in Chicago.
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MONTREAL — Richard Forte of Forte Found, based here, supported jazz-pop singer Nikki Yanofsky at the July 4-6 Montreal Jazz Festival with an assist from LightViper, FiberPlex’ fiber optic transport system. His setup, which eliminates the need for a heavy copper snake, includes a head end mic preamp/line level unit, lighting multiplexer, MIDI interface, fiber optic connector, and Ethernet-to-fiber converter.
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TJØME, NORWAY — Verdens Ende, known to Norwegians as “The World’s End,” the southernmost tip of the island of Tjøme, 60 miles south of Oslo, can be a forbidding place — but not for actor Gard Eidsvold wearing Point Source Audio’s CO-5W-KIT waterproof earset microphone. There, at the sea’s edge in a driving rain, he was perched precariously above the rocks on a thin plank, vigorously rowing his symbolic boat while reciting the lines of the iconic Norwegian ballad “Terje Vigen.” Both the actor and the mic performed flawlessly before a rapt audience, which sat under hoods and umbrellas a mere 30 meters from the shoreline.
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NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands —Dutch rental company Story Sound, which supported the Emporium Festival here last year with its then-brand-new JBL VTX line arrays, deployed the gear once again to support this year’s event. Greater familiarity with the VTX gear’s high-tech tools, combined with slightly relaxed noise constraints, let Story Sound deliver a whole new level of sound quality for festival revelers for the late May event.
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CALABASAS, CA – Mike West is a California-based acoustic guitarist and vocalist who plays well over 200 shows per year. For his current solo show, “Down To Earth – A Magical History Tour,” featuring the music of the Beatles, West upgraded with a new Line 6 StageSource loudspeaker system.
Read More »MURFREESBORO, TN — The Audio Engineering Society (AES) announced that its 50th International Conference, set for July 25-27 at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) here, will be dedicated specifically to audio education. It will focus on teaching methods, instructional resources, learning outcomes, technical operations, industry relations, and related topics, and also include a significant focus on live sound.
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LONDON — While mixing the Pet Shop Boys’ current Electric world tour, the band’s longtime sound engineers, Holger Schwark (FOH) and Seamus Fenton (monitors), needed to transfer signals and keep the sound within the digital domain. In order to do so, the duo have been relying on a multicore system from Optocore, a provider of scalable, high-bandwidth, low-latency fiber-optic networks for the transmission of audio, video and data in a variety of markets, including pro AV, live and fixed installations and broadcast.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Gorilla, a 700-capacity venue offering a wide range of live entertainment in Manchester’s city center, recently upgraded with a Midas PRO2 digital console at FOH, provided by Mason’s Games Ltd. The console has 56 mic/line inputs with remote mic preamps, 27 sample-synchronous, phase-coherent mix buses, up to 28 Klark Teknik DN 370 31-band Graphic EQs, 12 multichannel FX engines and 96 kHz 40-bit floating-point processing. Two AES3 inputs, three AES3 outputs and dual-redundant power supplies complete the hardware configuration.
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STOW, OH – Audio Technica named Los Alamitos, CA-based Alliance Audio Visual Group as its Rep of the Year for the 2012/2013 fiscal year. Pictured here, from left, are David Marsh, Audio-Technica director of sales & marketing, Installed Sound & Broadcast; Michael Edwards, A-T VP Professional Products; Alliance Audio Visual Group’s Jim Chase (account executive) and Matthew Jensen (principal); Philip Cajka, A-T U.S. president and CEO; and Doug Swan, A-T director of sales & marketing, MI/PRO Audio.
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NILES, IL — Receiving the accolade for the sixth time, Shure Inc. has been named one of “Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For” by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). Shure, the only audio company on the 2013 list, which recognizes companies for human resources best practices, also won the award in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2012.
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LAS VEGAS, NV — Audiotek’s Frank Murray specified Turbosound gear for Hakkasan, the new 10,000-square-foot, five-level nightclub at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip. The speaker setup starts with 24 TFA-600HW Flex Array modules and 12 TFA-600L cabinets, with a dance floor system that features six ground-stacked TFA-600B single 18” bass cabinets and three TFS-900Bi dual 18” subwoofers. Twenty-two TCX-8 and eight NuQ-6 loudspeakers supply under-balcony fill. Upstairs, an additional 21 TCX-8 are installed above the balcony..
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LOS ANGELES, CA — Opened in 2012, Grand Park has been equipped with a fiber optic network and “media hydrants” throughout its 12 acres, allowing for a wider range of possible locations from where musicians can perform. Along with the Riedel light pipe data network, the park can make use of a new Soundcraft Vi1 mixing console for control.
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