GLASGOW, Scotland — Looking to optimize intelligibility within a difficult acoustic environment, TG Baker specified Tannoy QFlex for the upgraded audio system at Glasgow Central rail station, which serves 34 million people annually.
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CARHAIX, France — The four-day Les Vieilles Charrues, one of France’s largest festivals, drew a crowd of 244,000 with headliners including Bob Dylan, Sting, The Cure, Garbage, Portishead, LMFAO, Kasabian and France-based artists including Thomas Dutronc, Zebda, Orelsan, Amadou et Mariam, among others. Audiolite’s gear for the event’s main stage included E15 loudspeakers from Adamson Systems Engineering.
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TARZANA, CA — Harman recently supported the Artists for Autism benefit here by providing a JBL VRX PA system for the day-long event. Held at live music venue Petie’s Place, the Artists for Autism event featured performances by Resurrect the Machine, Ronny North, the Back Beat Brawlers and Jeff Iftekaruddin. All proceeds from the event were donated to the Autism Speaks foundation.
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GARLAND, TX — Kevin Deal, account manager at the Dallas office for Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), worked with GC Pro affiliate DJ Sound & Lighting and Kahn Nguyen, a music consultant, on the recent installation of a new sound system for the new auditorium at Mother of Perpetual Help Parish Church, based here. The installation included 15 DAS Aero 8A line array boxes, six DAS Avant 118A subwoofers, eight DAS Avant 112A floor monitors and an Allen & Heath iLive T112 analog console with IDR48 mix rack.
Read More »OXNARD, CA — L-Acoustics announced demos this fall in the Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston and New York areas. The demos will focus on L-Acoustics’ new constant-curvature ARCS WIDE and ARCS FOCUS systems. Also featured: L-Acoustics’ Coaxial (P and XT Series) and Variable Curvature (KARA and KIVA) systems and technologies.
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NANAIMO, BC — Fifteen years ago — in 1997 — Barry McKinnon of MC Squared System Design Group of Vancouver Don Crocker and the team at Victoria, BC-based Sound Source & Lightrix designed and installed a loudspeaker system at BC Ferries’ Duke Point Ferry Terminal here that included five PC1542M and three PC1564M long-throw, pattern-control horns. A recent check determined the system components are still performing well, despite exposure to the harsh Canadian elements 365 days a year.
Read More »NEW YORK — Seeking a small, discreet capsule that could deliver transparent sound quality, Clive Goodwin, sound designer for Once, specified DPA Microphones’ 4060 Omnidirectional Miniature Microphones. The musical, based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film, won a 2012 Tony Award for best sound design (in the Best New Musical category). Supplied by Masque Sound, the new microphones are being used with Sennheiser wireless systems.
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BUDANG, South Korea — The Global Mission Church, (Jiguchon), based here, offers worshippers 14 services every Sunday, additional worship services on Wednesday and the main church and satellite campuses host a variety of other gatherings during the week. The church leadership opted for a DiGiCo SD7 console with an EX-007 expander to handle its unique array of audio mixing needs.
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LONDON — Developed more than six decades ago, AKG achieved an international breakthrough in recording and broadcast technology with the introduction of its first dynamic microphone, the D12. This first-of-its-kind microphone became a staple studios and performance stages around the world, setting the standard for voice transmission in the 1950s and ’60s as well as becoming a standard for capturing low-freuency, high SPL sources such as bass drums. At the PLASA 2012 show, AKG debuted the new D12 VR, a large-diaphragm cardioid microphone intended specifically for kick drum applications.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman’s Soundcraft Studer is taking its newly refurbished demo truck filled with Soundcraft, Studer, JBL and AKG gear on the road, heading west from the Northeastern U.S. More demos are being planned through to the AES show in late October, where the demo truck is also scheduled to appear.
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SANFORD, FL — AV consultant Josh Walker helped bring Safe Harbor Christian Church here into the digital age by replacing an aging analog console and multi-channel snake with a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital console and new 200-foot multicore snake.
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SCANZANO JONICO, Italy — Officials from Italy’s Basilicata Region hired International Sound in late June to amplify the words of the Dalai Lama for an event here that drew some 12,000 people. Franco Firulli of International Sound provided a K-array sound system to cover a 7,000-square-meter area.
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