LONDON – With a full television crew recording his every move and "meet and greet" packages at every show, singer/songwriter/showman Peter André's big arena tour in December was not about to make life easy for the production company.
Read More »NEW YORK – For the two-hour live broadcast of the finale for NBC's The Sing-Off on Dec. 20, a competition between a cappella singing groups, Soundtronics Wireless supplied over 40 channels of handheld UHF-R Wireless systems, including 28 handheld transmitters with KSM9 mic capsules and another 14 channels with SM58 heads.
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FOOTHILL RANCH, CA – Renkus-Heinz has expanded their engineering department with two new hires. Semi Tehrani has joined the electronics hardware development team, and Mikhail Poddubny joins the department's software team.
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NEW YORK – Blues Traveler has performed more than 2,000 live shows in front of more than three million people in the last 23 years. After experimenting with different ways to preserve live shows on disc for the band's fans, FOH engineer Adam Fortin, who's been with the band since 2006, is now using a DiGiCo SD8 equipped with an RME MADIFace 56-track interface to multitrack 34 channels straight to a MacBook Pro with an Express port.
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NEW YORK – The Juilliard School is picky about the students they accept – there are only about 800 undergraduate and graduate students in the renowned center for dance, drama, and music studies. Noted alumni include Patti LuPone, Van Cliburn, Wynton Marsalis and Henry Mancini. The Julliard School is also choosy about their gear, and Marc L. Waithe, chief audio engineer, has opted to use Earthworks microphones for close to a decade.
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BERGAMO, Italy – Sound Services by Angelo Pelliccioli provided D.A.S. gear to upgrade the sound reinforcement at the 24,726-seat Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, home stadium for the Atalanta and Albinoleffe soccer teams. The stadium, which opened to the public in 1928, encompasses a field that is 120 meters long and 70 meters wide with grandstand seating that is only partially covered.
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OSLO – After a 28-year career, Norwegian trio A-ha have decided to split. For their farewell tour, Capital Sound provided two DiGiCo consoles and a full complement of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitoring systems.
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NEW YORK – Although many people consider Black Friday to be the official start of the Christmas frenzy, native New Yorkers will likely tell you that the holiday season doesn't truly kick off until the massive Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza has been lit.
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HAMBURG, Germany – PRG Germany is supporting a touring replica of Abba's 1979 performance at London's Wembley Arena called ABBA – The Concert performed by AbbAgain. The tour features more than a dozen musicians and 150 minutes of Abba songs, and to distribute audio at the various tour locations, the show is using a RockNet digital audio network from Riedel Communications.
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ANAHEIM, CA – Along with the challenge of opening up five satellite campuses at the same time right before Christmas, Saddleback Church suddenly had a staggering need for custom cases. The organization is renting schools for Sunday services and religious education, so these churches had to roll in and out 52 Sundays a year.
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DENVER and VERONA, Italy – Dowlen Sound Inc. and Britannia Row Productions put the new Outline GTO large format line array through its paces, respectively, at the Mile High Music Festival and with the final leg of Peter Gabriel's New Blood tour in Europe.
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MIAMI, FL – Proel America named industry veteran Ed Simeone V.P of Sales for North America. He will be responsible for all sales and marketing efforts in The U.S. and Canada for Proel, and will manage their independent sales rep force.
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