PORTLAND, OR — Britannia Row Productions credited an Audinate Dante digital media network for helping the soundco support the Diamond Jubilee concerts at the Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace in early June.
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HALDEN, Norway — For a series of Scandinavian shows in mid-June featuring Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Starlight/United Audio provided an L-Acoustics sound system powered by Powersoft K Series amplifiers. The venues included Herning Jyske Bank Boxen arena, Denmark (June 14); Malmo Arena, Sweden (June 16); and June 17th at Halden Fredriksten Festning, Norway (June 17).
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LONDON — For a series of performances by Alanis Morissette in the U.K. and France, Britannia Row provided an Outline GTO system that included the new GTO-SUB and GTO-DF downfill 120-degree element.
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LAS VEGAS — When the famed Fountains of Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip added new songs to its repertoire for the first time in six years, Crest power amps and MediaMatrix networked audio processors helped bring the music to the masses.
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LAS VEGAS — The votes from FRONT of HOUSE readers are in, the results tallied and the regional winners of the 2012 Hometown Hero Sound Company competition have been named. They are: Canada: Sound Art Toronto (Mississauga, ON); Northeast: Boulevard Pro (Ridgefield Park, NJ); Southeast: Beachsound Inc. (Miami Gardens, FL); Midwest: Intellasound Productions (Verona, WI); Southwest: Precise Corporate Staging (Tempe, AZ); Northwest: Delicate Productions (Burlingame, CA).
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AMNEVILLE, France — Adamson Energia beta partners MPM and Waveform Audio provided Energia e15 speakers for the Sonisphere Festival, which was staged here July 7-8. The lineup of rock and metal artists included Faith No More, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother, Machine Head and others.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany – For the 99th Tour de France, Team Garmin used a radio solution from Riedel Communications. The specialist for real-time communications and media networks installed a combination of conventional trunked radios and NanoTalk to allow Garmin team members to communicate.
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TUPELO, MS – Pro Concert Music, Inc. designed and installed the sound system for Cross Pointe Ministries’ new building here, with a seating capacity of more than 1,000 worshippers. The new system includes a central cluster of six WorxAudio Technologies X1i-P powered line array elements and two WorxAudio TL218SS-P powered subwoofers.
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LOS ANGELES — Music instrument retailer Guitar Center purchased West LA Music, a music retail outlet that had been a source for gear for professional customers as well as consumers for 46 years. West LA Music’s last day of business was Saturday, Aug. 4, according to published reports. (The company’s website was still up after that date, and a phone line active, but callers were instructed to leave a recorded message.) Along with retail sales to professional users, the company had been active working with members of the Grammys Producers & Engineers Wing to stage the annual West LA Music Recording Expo.
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FOOTHILL RANCH, CA and BERLIN, Germany — Renkus-Heinz and Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG Technologies GmbH) have announced the restructuring of their long-standing strategic relationship, with AFMG stepping into a more prominent role.
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LOS ANGELES — For Kaskade’s sold-out show at the Staples Center July 27 — the first time a DJ managed to do that — Rat Sound Systems provided a full L-Acoustics K1 stadium system. The show was part of the DJ’s Freaks of Nature tour. Rat Sound brought out its big guns, with left and right arrays each comprised of 16 K1 enclosures tailed with three dV-DOSC cabinets for downfill.
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PIPERTON, TN — Living Hope Church’s portable church location became permanent, and Elite Multimedia provided a flexible audio system designed to keep up with the changing needs of the growing congregation there. The sound system includes Lake’s LM 26 signal processor, which provides control over equalization, limiting and delay for the church’s FOH mains.
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