TORONTO – Sennheiser Canada, which sponsored two wings at the Interior Design Show in Toronto, used the diminutive K-array Piccolo, pictured here, for the smallest wing at the MCLV Lounge. In the other wing, two KTL22C and two KV50 arrays were installed and an additional two KTL22s were installed in the bar and DJ area along with two KZ10s.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that George Travis, longtime production/tour manager for Bruce Springsteen, will receive the live event industry’s highest honor, the Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award, at the annual gala ceremony in Las Vegas this November. Travis has also worked with Rod Stewart, Kiss, Boston, Elton John, Madonna, Shania Twain and Ringo Starr, among others.
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WREXHAM, WALES — Cadac Holdings Ltd., Luton, Beds. UK. CUK – CADAC’s UK distributor – has supplied a CADAC CDC8-16 to Glyndŵr University AVL Technical Services for evaluation and first time ever use for a public performance. The CADAC CDC8-16 features an ultra-compact frame-size with identical 128-channel I/O count, just as the full 32-channel version.
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MOSCOW – Completed in 2000 to replace the original cathedral destroyed by Stalin in 1931, Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior is the world’s tallest Orthodox cathedral. It features a vaulted ceiling and hard walls that create reverberation times of over 10 seconds. To improve clarity for its speech and music programming, the cathedral recently upgraded to the new steerable CAL column array loudspeakers from Meyer Sound.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s Space Museum has reinvigorated its visitor offering with an Omnimax planetarium system. The museum’s Lecture Hall has not only benefited from the visual elements of cinematic styling, the audio system is also brand-new. It includes a TiMax2 SoundHub16 multi-channel delay matrix installed as surround system management and spatialization processor.
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BALTIMORE, MD — Waves Audio, the leading provider of audio DSP solutions for the professional, live sound, broadcast and consumer electronics markets, recently held an event – the first in a planned series from WavesLive, the live sound division of the company – featuring mixing workshops at Maryland Sound International (MSI), one of the world’s leading production firms.
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ST. PAUL, MN – The University of St. Thomas, based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, realized it needed better sound in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel on the school’s campus. Locally-based EMI Audio was hired to do the job, and they chose components from Bose Professional Systems Division, including several Panaray MA12 mid/high modular line array modules, as well as ControlSpace Designer software (a graphical user interface tool for the design configuration and control of systems consisting of Engineered Sound Processors), PowerMatch PM8500N power amplifiers, and Bose CC-64 control centers.
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GELDERLAND, The Netherlands – Decibel 111 Audio recently invested in an Allen & Heath iLive-T80 digital mixing system and ME-1 personal monitor mixers to supplement its rental stock and specifically manage the summer tour dates of top pop band, Hike. Decibel purchased the new A&H equipment following a demo and training day for engineers and musicians at pro audio dealer, Aptronics.
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SOLON, OH –– Shipping now, the new GXL-V and GXL-U wireless systems are designed for ease of use and flexible operation while providing a high performance solution in a convenient dual system configuration.
Read More »NEW YORK — SFX Entertainment, the company that media executive Robert Sillerman formed in June 2012, is looking to raise up to $175 million through an IPO, according to reports. SFX Entertainment filed an S-1 form with the SEC on June 25.
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NASHVILLE, TN – From June 6 to 9, the Country Music Association (CMA) held its 42nd Annual Fan Fair, a four-day music festival consisting of dozens of country performances including current, chart-topping Sennheiser users such as Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown Band to ‘heritage’ artists including Kenny Rogers and Oak Ridge Boys.
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NASHVILLE, TN — The 42nd annual CMA Music Festival, the world’s largest country music festival and broadcast, recently stomped all previous attendance records at its 2013 event, which took place in Nashville from Thursday, June 6 through Sunday, June 9. As usual, the highlights of the festivities this year were the main stage concerts at LP Field, which nightly drew more than 45,000 spectators to cheer and sing along with dozens of the genre’s top artists. For sound reinforcement duties, the Country Music Association (CMA) awarded the contract to Sound Image, which supplied a large-scale L-ACOUSTICS K1 system for the headlining concert each night – all four of which sold out more than six weeks in advance.
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