PHOENIX – Nearly 10 years ago, Xavier College Preparatory High School invested in a new, 1,000-seat auditorium for musical productions, assemblies, concerts and fundraisers. Since the beginning, the all-female Catholic high school has relied on Sennheiser for the auditorium's wireless audio infrastructure.
Read More »ELKHART, Indiana – Crown Audio's amplifier manufacturing facility here received a thumbs-up for quality assurance and customer service by the International Organization for Standards (ISO) 9001:2008.
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LONG BEACH, CA – The 1,074-seat Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), has presented a diverse array of productions to audiences over the past 15 years, and its audio system was ready for an upgrade.
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NEW YORK – They may lack the visual prominence of a Manhattan skyscraper or a 74-foot-high Norway spruced decked out with 30,000 LED lights. But the subcompact JBL VerTec line arrays that PRG provided for the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony still played an important role at the event, which featured performances by Mariah Carey, Josh Groban and Susan Boyle and an appearance by the Rockettes from nearby Radio City Music Hall.
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DIMMITT, TX – The congregation of the First Baptist Church is partial to the sanctuary's handcrafted walnut accents, and to the efforts undertaken by Troubadour Solutions and Bag End to get an exact match between the old wood trim and the appearance of the new Gem Series speakers being installed.
Read More »That hedline (yes, that's spelled right. It's an antiquated newsroom thing. We also call the first paragraph of a story a "lede") is a little misleading. It's the end of the year. Of course we are going to look back. It's one of those human nature issues.
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LONDON – The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.
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In a time when pop music careers are measured in weeks instead of decades and the next big thing will fade by tomorrow, the second biggest tour of the year featured two old friends both in their 60s doing a show that felt like it could be in a small club – or sometimes in your living room. James Taylor and Carole King took a show that started out as a short series of dates in L.A. and put it on the road, consistently selling out 20K arenas and sounding great at every stop. Manning the console was veteran mixer David Morgan who had an advantage going in. He had the trust of everyone on stage.
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For the fourth successive year, Duran Audio provided all PA systems for Open Source Festival, which took place at the picturesque Grafenburg race course in the heart of Düsseldorf, Germany.
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St. Elias Maronite Church in Birmingham, AL follows in a tradition that dates back to Maron, a hermit monk whose life of prayer and meditation in the mountains near Antioch, Syria, inspired others to also make sacrifices in support of their faith.
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We are all familiar with the legendary AKG C 414 microphone and all of its incarnations. Actually, that statement may be incorrect. I currently specialize in live sound reinforcement, but all of my C 414 use was during my studio engineering days.
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So FOH editor Bill Evans gave me a buzz and asked me to look at these products and offer my thoughts. He contacts me when he wants that everyday, Joe Schmo opinion on something. Occasionally, he wants me to be hypercritical and nit-picky to avoid manufacturer hyperbole and puffery (thanks for the new vocabulary word, Papa Johns!).
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