LONDON — FOH and Monitors engineers, Antony King and Nahuel Gutierrez, have used Midas consoles of varying shapes and sizes during the year-long world tour with Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds. The pair kicked off the tour with a Midas PRO6 then picked up an XL8 for the arena leg and followed up by using a PRO2C for festivals.
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KINDER, LA — Lynx Pro Audio S.L., which is based in Valencia, Spain, named Event Systems Group, based here, as its exclusive distributor for the U.S. and Canada. Pictured here are, from left, Jimmy Benoit, Greg Stevens and Jared Savant.
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NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES — Brooklyn-based indie rock band Grizzly Bear has performed this year at Radio City Music Hall, the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and on late night talk shows with the support of FOH engineer Drew Malamud, who has steered the band toward the use of TRUE P-Solo preamps.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — When Bromma-based Electrosound was tasked with turning a former brewery into an acoustically-viable music venue, the challenges included a profusion of hard, angular surfaces. Electrosound was able to overcome those challenges with careful speaker placement and fine-tuning using gear from Alcons.
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NORTH YORKSHIRE, UK — Adlib’s sales and installation division supplied an L-Acoustics KARA sound system to Scarborough Open Air Theatre, which featured concerts by JLS, John Barrowman, Olly Murs, Alexandra Burke, Russell Watson and others during its 2012 Summer Season.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications named Rik Hoerée key account manager, Cruise Ship Engineering. He will lead sales efforts in the cruise ship market for the company’s intercom, fiber and audio solutions products.
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LONDON — SSE Audio Group used Soundcraft Vi6 consoles at FOH and monitors for the sixth annual Sunflower Jam, a benefit concert held at Royal Albert Hall to raise money for sick children. The event, which featured Brian May, Alice Cooper, Bruce Dickinson, Kerry Ellis and Alfie Boe, also served as the debut for Soundcraft’s Si Performer, which controlled narrator mics and interval music.
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LOS ANGELES — 7F Audio provided sound reinforcement at a religious gathering of 75,000 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that included D.A.S. Audio’s Aero 50 3-way, large format line array enclosures, Aero 12A powered, 2-way mid-high line array elements and Road 12A monitor wedges.
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LONG ISLAND CITY, NY — El Media Group designed and installed the sound system at Z Hotel here, providing coverage for the rooftop lounge with Community WET Series W2-218, the downstairs restaurant and lounge with Community’s VERIS Series gear and the basement area with a distributed system including VERIS 26 two-way, dual 6-inch full-range systems augmented with VERIS 212S dual 12-inch subwoofers.
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PORTLAND, OR — Audinate announced that their Dante Controller v3.2.9.2, released for both Windows and Mac, now supports Yamaha HA Remote mode toggling for supported devices and also supports Mac OS X 10.8 for Mac.
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GARDEN GROVE, CA — Flight case and speaker cabinet hardware manufacturer Penn–Elcom has announced its exclusive North America distribution deal with U.K. loudspeaker manufacturer Precision Devices. The company makes an extensive line of high-performance cone loudspeakers from 6.5 to 24 inches in diameter.
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Community Professional’s second generation VERIS (VERsatile Installation Systems) Series is a new range of two-way, three-way and subwoofer designs created for demanding installed sound reinforcement and playback applications. Enhancements include new design 1-inch exit HF drivers, improved crossovers and a V2-215S dual 15-inch sub. Compact models include single/dual six-inch and eight-inch enclosures; larger two-way and three-way systems with 12/15-inch woofers are intended for mid-sized to large spaces and available for short-, mid- and long-throw applications. A variety of subwoofers are offered.
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