SYDNEY — Glenn Campbell of Seven Year Itch Entertainment & Productions, based here, was prompted to upgrade from a Shure PSM 400 to the Shure PSM 900 Wireless Personal Monitor System, primarily due to restrictions on the older gear’s use. Having made the switch, he also credits the new gear for a boost in sound quality.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. — Although he hasn’t had an opportunity to make full use of its lighting control functionality as of yet, Amber Audio co-owner Paul Bullimore found the audio attributes of the new Soundcraft Si Performer console to be more than sufficient for justifying its choice as FOH console for Kyla La Grange’s recent tour of clubs in the U.K.
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BOILING SPRINGS, NC — Working with ASE Group, staffers at Gardner-Webb University recently installed Yamaha CL1 and CL5 digital consoles and two RIO3224s, which were purchased through Full Compass, in Stewart Hall within the school’s new 110,000 square-foot Tucker Student Center. Stewart Hall is designed to be able to be divided into three performance spaces.
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BEIJING — Allen & Heath recently completed an iLive and GLD training roadshow in China, traveling to several key cities. Organized by Allen & Heath’s distributor, Sanecore, and delivered by A&H product specialist, Nicola Beretta, the sessions were attended by dealers, sound engineers and Sanecore’s technical staff, offering operational training on the iLive and GLD digital mixing systems.
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COLUMBUS, OH — Following a fire at a property adjacent to its former location, AV staging, rental and sales company Forty Two Inc. relocated its headquarters and re-equipped, acquiring new WideLine, KLA and K Series loudspeaker systems from QSC Audio Products. Forty-Two Inc. put the new systems to work at a campaign event led by President Barack Obama at Ohio State University in Columbus.
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JOHANNESBURG — In response to brisk sales for Midas PRO consoles via the company’s South African distributor, Prosound (PTY), Midas technical sales manager Jason Kelly and Prosound’s Mark Malherbe hit the road to ensure that the new owners would get the most out of their new consoles.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Electrosound, the distributor for Innovason in Sweden, supported the four-day Oriflame Global Conference attended by 4,000 by providing an Innovason Eclipse digital console to mix the Meyer Sound PA system used for the event. Electrosound’s Brollan Soderstrom set up and piloted the Eclipse for the event, held in Stockholm’s new Friends Arena.
Read More »CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Nineteen Linkin Park concert-goers making their way from a parking area to Cape Town Stadium Nov. 7 were injured when temporary scaffolding supporting a sports drink advertisement fell in high winds. One of the injured, a female, later died at the hospital; twelve others required hospitalization after the accident.
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KISSIMMEE, FL — Concerned about limited parts availability for an older analog console at the 2,000-seat Osceola Performing Arts Center (OPAC), the venue’s manager, Dave Edgar, met with Dan Lee at Signature Systems of Florida. Lee steered Edgar toward an iLive system from Allen & Heath. The system includes an iLive-T112 Surface and an iDR-32 MixRack.
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AUSTIN, TX — Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) worked with C3 Presents, producer of the 11th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival to coordinate 350 frequencies per day across eight stages for artists and the media during the three-day event, held in Zilker Park Oct. 12-14. PWS, a Masque Sound company that supplies and supports wireless systems for live and broadcast events, sent a four-person crew to ensure all wireless microphones, in-ear monitors and show communications were properly coordinated and operating properly.
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The XDIP (neXus Dante IP) board for the NEXUS router is the result of a collaboration between Stage Tec and Audinate. Based on the Dante Brooklyn module, the XDIP sends and receives 64 input channels and 64 output channels simultaneously, thus providing an interface between the IP world and the synchronously clocked NEXUS routing system. XDIP incorporates an AVB-enabled Gigabit Ethernet switch that offers four Ethernet ports for maximum flexibility, allowing a VLAN-based setup with redundant lines.
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QSC Audio is now offering Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) as a standard component of its Q-Sys integrated system platform for audio system control and signal transport. The QSC AEC process is easily deployed in Q-Sys Designer software as a simple, click-and-drag component. Because the Q-Sys AEC is integrated into the Q-Sys Core, users don’t need to pay extra to add AES capability to their systems in the form of add-on input cards.
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