WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — When the Williamstown Theatre Festival kicked off its 2013 summer season on June 26, Masque Sound marked its 10th season of providing audio equipment and services for the well-known event. Masque Sound is also once again providing audio equipment to Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in New York and The Muny in St. Louis.
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LONDON – DPA Microphones played a significant role at the recent Big IF rally in London’s Hyde Park. Sound, lighting and power provider Ethix Management used 12 DPA d:fine Headset Microphones to ensure that celebrities and VIPs, such as Microsoft CEO, billionaire Bill Gates and film director Danny Boyle, were clearly heard by the 45,000-strong crowd.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications named Franck Berger sales manager responsible for France and the French-speaking regions of North Africa. He is based in Paris.
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FaitalPro has three new ferrite woofers, including the 18-inch 18HW1070, 12-inch 12FH530 and 10-inch10FH530. The 18HW1070 boasts a nominal output of 1,600W AES and 3,200W max, with a 4-inch voice coil fitted with a cooling circuit that constitutes an evolution of the solutions adopted in the 18XL1600 and new basket design. The 12FH530 and 10FH530 are designed for mid-woofer applications. Declared power for both are 500W AES nominal with 1,000W peaks.
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LONDON — The challenge for Capital Sound, which was tasked with optimizing performances by Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones at London’s British Summer Time (BST) festival in Hyde Park, was to make the audio loud and rich for 65,000 attendees, yet keep noise complaints from nearby residents to a minimum. Martin Audio’s MLA system served as a solution..
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CARACAS, Venezuela – PROmontaje, based here, has taken delivery of a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale reinforcement system, the first to be available in Latin America. The new system was initially deployed at the Vive Movistar Festival in Caracas this summer.
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TOKYO – AS Project Co. Ltd., located in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, has been leveraging Dante functionality for live event sound reinforcement and recording with Yamaha’s CL Series console, Pro Tools HD and Focusrite’s RedNet 5 units – making the soundco the first users of Focusrite’s RedNet in Japan.
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CORNWALL, U.K. – The People’s String Foundation, a 12-member band that performed recently with an accompanying 10-piece orchestra at the Minack open-air theatre here, relied on Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing systems at FOH and monitors. FOH engineer Tommy Williams credited the iLive systems for their compact size, and also for the ability to use an iPad to mix much of the performance, which supported the group’s forthcoming album launch.
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ATLANTA, GA — Atlanta History Center (AHC), founded in 1926, added its 400-seat Woodruff Auditorium in 1975. Cape Dixson Associates Inc. (CDAI) and Sound Design & Innovation (SDI) recently collaborated with AHC on an AV system upgrade that included Symetrix’ Radius 12×8 Dante network audio DSP.
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ANSAN, South Korea — Soundenergy’s Giwook Cha worked with Sunbeom Kim of Soundus, K-array’s Korean distributor, on an audio system upgrade for Do-ha Methodist church here that included a K-array BlueLine KB1 speaker system. Soundenergy also steered the Noryangin church in Bon-dong, South Korea toward K-array gear — in this case, K-array’s Kobra KK102 (pictured here). Both church systems were chosen for sound quality as well as their ability to blend in visually with each church’s interior design.
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MUNICH, Germany – International reggae star Sean Paul recently completed a 10-show blitz through Germany with an Adamson Energia E15 line array system provided by Cobra sound light. The Hamburg, Germany-based sound company credited its recently-added Energia E15 PA system for its sound quality, scalability and ease of rigging.
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Special Event Services (SES) deployed a large Outline GTO-based sound system for the 2013 Justin Moore Outlaws Like Me tour, taking advantage of Outline’s OpenArray 3D Simulation Software and integrated flying hardware system to optimize audience coverage and sound quality. The Outline components included GTO, GTO-DF, Butterfly, Mantas, LIPF and Lab 21 speakers.
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