LOS ANGELES — Creative Technology (CTUS) recently added Wayne Tourville to the company’s audio department staff as audio engineer and frequency coordinator. Tourville, an 18-year industry veteran, has experience with productions involving concerts, festivals, tours, corporate theatre, broadcasts and special events.
Read More »SANTA CLARITA, CA — U.K.-based Calrec announced Oct. 4 that it has opened an office here to support customers in the western, southeastern, and south central U.S. and also western Canada. Dave Lewty serves as regional sales manager and Jake Halverson is the customer support coordinator. Calrec also continues its longtime relationship with Studio Consultants Inc. (SCI) in the eastern U.S.
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BOSTON — Mark Jarrell, owner of Dogwood Audio Sound Company, supported U.K.-based Celtic rock band IONA on its two-week swing through the U.S. this past summer. He mixed the band on a Soundcraft Vi1 and credited the console as a good fit with a variety of venues encountered on the tour.
Read More »FIRENZE, Italy — Powersoft announces it has become an official member of the AMX InConcert Alliance. As such, the AMX modules for Powersoft are compatible and allow for seamless integration of Powersoft amplifiers in typical AMX-controlled environments, including video and other remotely accessible devices. The feature set includes full monitoring capabilities, mute and volume control, preset selection, and power on/off for Duecanali, Ottocanali, M Series and K Series amplifiers.
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LOS ANGELES — Firehouse Productions deployed a full L-Acoustics K1 system for Peter Gabriel’s North American Back To Front trek from Sept. 16-Oct. 14. The tour marks the 25th anniversary of the album, So. On most tour stops, there are L-R hangs of 14 K1 plus six KARA below for down-fill, with adjacent hangs of eight K1-SB subs. Typical out-fills include an additional 10 K1 and six KARA flown per side, paired with eight ARCS and six dV-DOSC below for front- and lip-fill.
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CRESPELLANO, Italy — dBTechnologies named Giovanni Barbieri as its sales and marketing director worldwide. He will be responsible for global brand strategies and sales efforts. Barbieri, who has served for four years as a business development manager for dBTechnologies, joined RCF Group almost a decade ago as export manager.
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MANILA — To celebrate 400 years, the University of Santo Tomas here constructed a sports complex that includes a 54,000-square-foot, 5,792-capacity gymnasium. Crystal Audio installed Adamson’s SpekTrix line arrays — the gear’s debut in the island nation. After testing, installers found that the compact units were powerful enough to change the speaker-to-subwoofer element count in the six main hangs from 6:1 to 4:1. Four supplementary trapezoidal fill boxes were used for the center of the court.
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ADDISON, TX — Greenhill School, based here, needed a sound system makeover quickly for a 9/11 observance ceremony. GC Pro and integrator Trinity Group International (TGI) got the job done quickly, with TGI installing the GC Pro-provided QSC WideLine line array sound system – two hangs each with subs attached below – within a single day.
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FAIRFIELD, NJ — Middle Atlantic Products has named Adam Gold midwest regional sales manager; his territory includes Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri for all market segments. Middle Atlantic also named David Bromberg regional sales manager for the Western region. Bromberg’s territory includes Southern California and Southern Nevada for all market segments and Arizona for residential, security and DataComm channels.
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BUENA PARK, CA — On Oct. 1, 2012, Yamaha Corporation celebrated its 125th birthday. Its subsidiary based here, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, is also noting a milestone this year — 25 years since its entry into the digital console market with the launch of the DMP7.
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FORT WAYNE, IN — Mike Ross is creative arts director at The Pointe Church, based here, which is currently using Line 6 microphones and digital instrument wireless systems. Ross credited the gear for sound quality, flexibility, reliability and ease of use.
Read More »CHICAGO — L-Acoustics’ global demo program for its new ARCS WIDE and ARCS FOCUS systems is now underway, with demos planned in Chicago (Oct. 2-3), Las Vegas (Oct. 18-21, during LDI), Houston (Oct. 23), New York (Nov. 5-7) and at other locations around the world this autumn.
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