Waves Audio is now shipping its Butch Vig Vocals plugin, part of the Waves Signature Series. From Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins to Foo Fighters, Green Day and his own band Garbage, Butch Vig has contributed his signature sound to some of the most legendary albums of the modern rock era.
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ROANOKE, VA — IES Communications AV project manager Jim Hogan and his team upgraded the audio setup used for the Hotel Roanoke & Convention Center with a system based around seven Symetrix SymNet Radius AEC and three SymNet Radius 12×8 open architecture Dante-scalable DSPs.
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BERLIN, Germany – Building on one of the most architecturally and sonically impressive music venues in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic recently added a Harman’s Soundcraft Vi3000 console to its Chamber Music Hall, which was already equipped with a Soundcraft Vi6 and a Studer Vista 9 console.
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LOS ANGELES — Roland Corporation U.S. named Daniel Lee local market specialist, Ruby BC social media and content specialist and Steve Spak district sales manager for the Mid-Atlantic region (Washington DC to NYC). Jay Wanamaker, president and CEO of Roland Corporation U.S., made the announcement.
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BERLIN, Germany — Demonstrating the efficacy of its radio solutions in applications beyond live large-scale sports and entertainment events, Riedel Communications provided communications infrastructure for International Green Week (IGW), Jan. 15-24 in Berlin. Working with systems integrator Gegenbauer, Riedel provided IGW event host Messe Berlin with a complement of mobile radios and headsets used for organization, security, logistics, program production, and traffic management. Riedel also set up a private business radio (PBR) at the event.
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VORARLBERG, Austria – After extensive tests the MG Sound company from Nüziders in Austria (Vorarlberg) acquired gear from ProAudio Technology. The order included SW18 subwoofers and DELTA14.4-DSP system amplifiers. They will be used together with MT12 multi-purpose loudspeakers and the horn-loaded HT16 tops for a variety of sound reinforcement applications.
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BERKELEY, CA – To accelerate the expansion of its Asia-Pacific presence, Meyer Sound has announced two new hires: John Zhang as Sales Manager, China and Korea (pictured here), and Tim Boot as Business Development Manager, Asia-Pacific (pictured below).
Read More »KV2 Audio’s new VHD5.0 builds on the technology developed for the company’s VHD2.0 Large Format Point Source System, touted for its ability to provide coverage for crowds of 10,000 or more with just one or two enclosures per side. The company’s goal is to keep building larger point source systems for audiences of 50,000 or more by reproducing the low mid energy that certain line arrays provide though the summing of multiple drivers, while maintaining the key benefits of point source technology – with minimal destructive interference in the higher frequency range and accurate impulse response.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – For the baggage area at Auckland International Airport, systems integrator Bartons Sound Systems installed JBL Intellivox DC280 digitally steerable, self-powered loudspeaker arrays from Harman Professional.
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INCHEON, South Korea – At Korea’s 62,000-capacity Incheon Asiad stadium, which opened July 1, 2014 in time to host the 17th Asian Games, the audio system now used to support pop concerts along with sporting events includes Allen & Heath’s iLive digital system and GL2800 analog mixer.
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NEW YORK, NY – For a commemoration of Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s 150th birthday, Denmark-based Dacapo Records is releasing The Nielsen Project, a collection of Nielsen’s symphonies and concertos as performed by the New York Philharmonic. During production, TimbreMusic Tonemeister Mikkel Nymand, recording engineer on the project, relied on DPA Microphones’ d:dicate 4015S Wide Cardioid and 4006A Omnidirectional Microphones at Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.
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STOW, OH — Audio-Technica, a leading innovator in transducer technology for over 50 years, is now shipping its new System 10 PRO Rack-Mount Digital Wireless System, the latest addition to the growing range of A-T System 10 wireless solutions.
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