LOS ANGELES – Madonna’s MDNA Tour is drawing capacity crowds to stadiums around the world. The show features 11 musicians, 22 dancers, multiple costume changes, a novel staging and graphic design and an audio system from Eighth Day Sound that includes two DiGiCo SD7s at Front of House and another on monitors. The SD7 is a step up for monitor engineers Matt Napier and Sean Speuhler, who were using a D5T on Madonna’s previous Sticky & Sweet Tour.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Train’s California 37 tour has been rolling along with gear provided by Delicate Productions, including Martin MLA system, DiGiCo SD10 consoles for FOH and monitors, Martin Audio 5.2 amplifiers and Sennheiser G3 IEM personal monitor systems. The tour crew included Train’s FOH engineer Rob Thomas and monitor engineer Rob Greene, along with system engineer Phil Reynolds and system techs Kenny Kaiser and Russ Cunningham.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Staff members at the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre here are relying on Clear-Com’s Eclipse digital matrix system and FreeSpeak wireless intercom to help coordinate their productions. The systems were installed by Exton.
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AKRON, OH — Although a 34-speaker setup had been proposed for Bridgestone Americas’ 260,000-square-foot worldwide technical center here, Audio Video Interiors was able to cover the space with just three Renkus-Heinz Iconyx steered arrays.
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Radial Engineering Ltd. designed the new Radial PZ-DI direct box to work with all types of acoustic and orchestral instruments by letting users optimize the input impedance to match the pickup or transducer. The PZ-DI promises to adapt to piezo transducers, overcoming the squawk and peaks that they produce, as well as magnetic pickups. The PZ-DI is also geared to help eliminate feedback and resonance caused by low frequencies along with the interaction between the room acoustics and the PA.
Read More »Roland Systems Group has released updated drivers and software for their V-Mixing System components. The new updates are a result of direct feedback from the market as well as Apple’s new release of Mountain Lion OS.
Read More »Radial Engineering Ltd announced the Q4, calling it “the world’s first 100% discrete state-variable class-A parametric equalizer.”
Read More »ARMONK, NY — Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG) announced Sept. 27 the corporate structure of PRG in Germany has been changed — PRG and Showtec are now one company. PRG also announced management shifts as the operations under the formerly separate companies continue to merge. PRG first announced that it was acquiring Showtec in late March, 2011.
Read More »NASHVILLE — Brad “Porque” Baker, 58, longtime sound man at The End in Nashville, died Aug. 31 due to complications from sleep apnea. Prior to… Read More »In Memoriam: Brad Baker, 58
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LOS ANGELES — The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) has solidified plans to move forward with publishing an Americanized version of the widely-used U.K. guide of best practices in the event production industry, The Event Safety Guide – also known as The Purple Guide.
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Kaltman Creations’ Invisible Waves IWxCPA antenna promises to improve reception for wireless microphones and IEM systems via a new directional, “circular polarization” (CP) technology for both receiving and transmitting pro-audio wireless applications, as an alternative to traditional paddle or rod antennas.
Read More »SAN DIEGO — VUE Audiotechnik announced the completion of its U.S. representative network with the appointment of seven additional firms covering the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast regions. This news comes just two weeks after the company announced the appointment of three firms covering the Western U.S.
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