VALENCIA, CA — ATK Audiotek named Michael MacDonald president. He assumes the duties of outgoing president Michael Stahl, who is retiring. MacDonald has more than three decades of experience in pro audio, most recently having served for five years as vice president of sales and marketing at Harman Professional.
Read More »CHICAGO — Ticket holders arriving for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performance on Sept. 22 were turned away as they learned that the musicians union called for a strike. The stalemate over pay and health benefits threatens scheduled concerts later this week, along with a tour to New York and Mexico in early October. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra also canceled concerts through the end of September as the result of an ongoing pay and benefits dispute. The musicians there have been locked out since early September, effectively canceling the first full month of their 2012-2012 season.
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MUMBAI, INDIA – PALM Expo 2013, to be held from May 30-June 1 2013 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre here, could serve as a gateway to this booming market with an estimated buying power of more than $500 million (USD). Driven by its rapidly-growing, youthful demographics and continuing structural reform and globalization, India is poised to accelerate its economic growth rate to more than 9 percent from 2013 to 2015.
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BOSTON — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) equipped the Salty Pig restaurant in downtown Boston with seven JBL Control 67P/T full-range pendant loudspeakers in the main area of the restaurant, five CBT 50LA column loudspeakers around the outdoor patio area and two Control SB210 compact subwoofers inside and out.
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MOSCOW — The Bolshoi Theatre here reopened after a six-year renovation with the largest RTS stage-manager system yet, installed by Amptown, ProVideo and TDM. The system includes two ADAM matrices with 448 ports, over 200 keypanels and around 120 belt-packs, plus a number of headsets and interfaces.
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UPPSALA, Sweden — Konsert Teknik, based here, has joined the expanding list of international PA companies adding a JBL VTX line array system as their frontline PA offerings.
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MIAMI — Latin pop artists Marc Anthony, Chayanne, and Marco Antonio Solis teamed up for the 14-city GIGANT3S tour in August and September. FOH engineer Jose A. Rivera, Jr. used A-Designs HM2EQ HAMMER dual-channel tube equalizer and HM2 NAIL compressor/limiter across the stereo mix buss for the shows.
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VANCOUVER BC — Eddie Mapp, FOH engineer for Evanescence, geared up for the band’s swing through Central and South America with an arsenal of gear from Radial Engineering, including nine J48 active DIs, four JDX guitar amp DIs, two SW8 backing track switchers and two JPC computer DIs.
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LONDON — Among the clubs recently installing JBL Marquis Dance Club Series loudspeakers are the Blue Martini in Las Vegas, NV; Boogie Nights within Atlantic City, NJ’s Tropicana Casino and Resort; and, pictured here, Club MUTE in Seoul, South Korea.
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POITIERS, France — Futuroscope, a multimedia theme park, marked 25 years with a musical celebration that included an outdoor production of Dogora. Agora Audio mixed the event on an Innovason Eclipse console and used an Innovason Sy80 for monitors. Along with the consoles, Agora Audio provided the main P.A. and microphones (including 16 KM 184 D digital mics from Neumann) for the event.
Read More »CISCO, TX — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) has been working with the Assembly of Yahweh 7th Day church. Along with an extensive upgrade to the church’s sound system, GC Pro has assisted with the church’s lighting and AV needs.
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WASHINGTON, D.C — Q Lights and Sound Productions provided a D.A.S. Audio Aero Series 2 loudspeaker system for a three-day event that drew some 10,000 attendees to RFK Stadium July 1, 4 and 6. The Ethiopian 4th of July Celebration, a blend of soccer and music, featured hip hop artist T.I. and rappers TPain, B.o.B., and Young Jeezy, among others.
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