CHICAGO — For the Lollapalooza festival staged in Grant Park Aug. 1-3, 2014, festival organizers C3 Presents turned once again to RF specialist Brooks Schroeder (pictured here) and Frequency Coordination Group (FCG) to coordinate wireless.
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WARRINGTON, U.K. — Two of the three former members of Swedish House Mafia — Axwell & Ingrosso — performed at the Creamfields dance festival staged at staged at the Daresbury Estate Aug. 22-24 with 3D audio effects that were made possible via Out Board’s TiMax SoundHub-S16 audio showcontrol matrix.
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BROWNSVILLE and SIXES, OR — For two regional festivals staged in Oregon in August — the BI-MART Willamette Country Music Festival in Brownsville (Aug. 15-17) and the Cape Blanco Country Music Festival in Sixes (Aug. 1-3) — U.S. Audio & Lighting provided a P.A. system using L-Acoustics’ K2 loudspeakers. Pictured here, country artist Justin Moore is supported by K2 arrays at Cape Blanco.
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LOS ANGELES — Matthew McConnell, technical director for the Collinsworth School of Music at California Baptist University, relies on an assortment of DPA Microphones gear to solve a variety of live miking challenges.
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LOS ANGELES — Following the release of the band’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, Linkin Park recently completed the 25-date North American leg of their “Carnivores” tour with co-headliners 30 Seconds To Mars and supporting act AFI. Veteran sound engineers Ken “Pooch” Van Druten and Kevin “Tater” McCarthy used a pair of SD7 consoles supplied by Sound Image at FOH and monitor positions.
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HONG KONG, China – For the Wong Tai Sin Temple, a well-known shrine and tourist attraction here, DinoTech Ltd designed a 15-zone distributed audio system that makes use of 70 One Systems 103IM, 108IM and 112IM direct weather loudspeakers powered by four Lab.gruppen C 28:4 amplifiers. A Biamp AudiaFLEX DSP audio platform monitors and controls the 15-zones.
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DIEST, Belgium – Harman’s Benelux distributor, AudioXL, will also distribute JBL Intellivox and AXYS loudspeaker products for the Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg region. In October 2013, Harman acquired Duran Audio and its flagship Intellivox and AXYX lines, before incorporating them into the JBL product lineup. Pictured here, from left, are Thijs Dullaart, Audio XL; Nick Screen, Duran Audio; William van Druten, Audio XL.
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INDORE, Madhya Pradesh, India — The Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences (SAIMS), based here, recently installed an Allen & Heath ZED-420 4 bus analog USB mixer in a new interactive seminar suite.
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ELSAU-RÄTERSCHEN, Switzerland — show-concept.ch, based here, has purchased a DiGiCo SD5 via via DiGiCo’s Swiss distributor Tonspur AG. The console was first used at monitor position to support a big-band event in Montreux’s Stravinski Hall.
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MAPLE GROVE, MN – Excel AV Group, based here, has been supporting Southland City Church’s Sunday services within Lakeville High School’s auditorium with a gear package that includes dB Technologies’ DVA-Series Line Array components.
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VIENNA, Austria — K-array’s Austrian distributor, Musik Lenz provided six of the company’s KAN200 units for a recent installation overseen by Mr. Mag. David Müllner, head of the sound department at the venue.
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BOTHELL, WA — AES and OCA Alliance (based here) will be working together at the forthcoming 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles towards the ratification of the alliance’s proposed Open Control Architecture as an AES public standard. Pictured here is Jeff Berryman, the OCA Alliance’s technical workgroup chair.
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