LAS VEGAS – Celine Dion, who returned to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in mid-March for a three-year residency with close to 70 performances scheduled per year, has been using a Neumann KK 104 S cardioid capsule coupled with a Sennheiser SKM 5200 II handheld transmitter. The audio crew is also using Sennheiser SKM 2000 XP wireless series with MME 865 capsules for backup singers and Sennheiser and Neumann gear for drums.
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers named Thomas Mittelmann director of business development, Asia-Pacific. Mittelmann, who most recently worked with Powersoft, has also spent years with Lab.gruppen developing sales in Asia; his position there prompted his relocation from Germany to Singapore in 2007. Prior to that, he had spent eight years with Community, handling the company's European sales.
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LONDON – Presentation Rentals Ltd. (PR) now offers a complete d&b audiotechnik sound system – including d&b T10s and B4s – with a white finish. The gear is particularly well-suited to small to medium events where black-finished speakers would pose aesthetic concerns. Examples include art gallery events and gatherings staged aboard ships.
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FERMO, Italy – For the 2011 racing season's final two-day Grand Prix, held on the Motocross World Championships race course here, Bebo Service provided dBTechnologies' DVA T12 loudspeakers and DVA S20 subwoofers. The clusters of gear were suspended by cranes at the event. The race track covers an area measuring about 500 by 400 meters.
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LAS VEGAS – To help the Palazzo turn its Azure pool area into an outdoor "day club," Kelley Technologies installed a sound system around the pool's perimeter that includes loudspeakers from JBL Professional. The speakers were chosen for their weather-resistant qualities, and since the existing infrastructure already includes BSS products, "it made sense to stick with them as well as Crown due to its built-in DSP with power handling," noted Kelley Technologies sales manager Art Martinez.
Read More »MARCOUSSIS, France – L-Acoustics and Sennheiser Canada Inc. announced a joint decision to end their collaboration. Sennheiser Canada Inc. will cease to be the exclusive distributor of the L-Acoustics brand in Canada, effective Jan. 1, 2012.
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LOS ANGELES – Delicate Productions provided a Martin Audio MLA system to control the variables on Selena Gomez's 25-city U.S. tour that ranged from theaters with balconies to sheds with aluminum roofs and large-capacity arenas. The touring gear – sound, video, production and backline – also had to fit within three production semis for transport.
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LA VERNE, CA – Remembered for the scene where Dustin Hoffman interrupts the wedding at the end of the 1967 film, The Graduate, La Verne United Methodist Church has also been getting by with a sound system installed not long after the movie was filmed. PS Audio Video of San Diego finally replaced the old system recently with a new one that includes a Symetrix Jupiter 12 audio processor.
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Soundco
Edge Showtek/Stewart Independent
Venue
B1 Parking Lot,
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
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