BOSTON — The Boston Opera House, housed in a theater that first opened in 1928, is relying upon Bose RoomMatch array modules to optimize coverage and intelligibility across its vast seating zones. The venue has 2,645 seats in all — 1,303 in the balcony.
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MEXICO CITY — For the current world tour for Mexican alt/psychedelic band Zoé, monitor engineer Gustavo Zertuche is using an SSL Live console supplied by Meridian Proaudio to drive the group’s wedges and in-ear monitors. Meridian Proaudio was the first rental company in Latin America to add the new console to its rental inventory.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL — For a late March performance by Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall in the Times-Union Performing Arts Center here, the northern Florida audience got a natural taste of southern Louisiana music via Digital Hybrid Wireless technology from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics.
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HASTINGS, New Zealand — Denmark-based DPA Microphones named Direct Imports, based here, as its distributor in New Zealand. Direct Imports will carry a full stock of DPA products for live, recording and broadcast applications. Pictured here are, from left, Brett Dallas, Managing Director; Greer Compston, National Sales Manager and Rowan Brookfield, Pro Audio Division Sales Executive.
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LAS VEGAS — Launched at the LVH casino in March 2013, but with a plotline set in the 31st century, Raiding the Rock Vault got updated for 2014, signing on Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio) along with Carol-Lyn Liddle (Masters of Rock) and Stephanie Calvert (Starship) and an updated roster of songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The award-winning production uses AKG microphones from Harman. Pictured here, Keith Marks, production coordinator.
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NASHVILLE – Country music artist Levi Riggs has started touring with an HDL20-A rig from RCF-USA. The system consists of eight HDL20-A line array modules and four SUB 8006-AS subwoofers.
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NEW YORK – For the U.S. and European tour of Broken Bells, FOH engineer Dave McDonald has been using Allen & Heath’s iLive-112 Surface with iDR10 Mixrack, with the addition of a Dante network card delivering up to 64 channels to a recording rig. McDonald is running 42 channels from the system.
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STRASBOURG, France – For a cine-concert pairing the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and a 24-voice choir, Lawo’s mc256 console played a key role. Some 6,000 people attended.
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WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — After the effects of time, moisture, and chlorine took their toll on the original sound system at the The Carl R. Samuelson and Robert B. Muir pool, part of the Chandler Athletic Center, Williams College turned to Berkshire Professional Audio (Cummington, MA), to design a new sound reinforcement system that includes One Systems components. Sonix Pro Audio (Northhampton, MA) provided systems integration for the project.
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VANCOUVER, BC — Radial Engineering Ltd., based here, has taken on the global sales, marketing and distribution of Jensen’s Iso-Max range of products. Iso-Max is a range of isolators that provide ground isolation and noise abatement for audio and video in broadcast, home theater and commercial AV integration.
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BERKELEY, CA – After serving as the company’s loudspeaker product manager, Luke Jenks has been promoted to the newly created position of Director of Product Management. He also assumes direction of a newly formed product management team that encompasses market requirement definition, new product introductions, and technical documentation.
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Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony performance venue has chosen the RCF TTL55-A large format line array system for their Summer Stage Concert Series. The system will feature 16 TTL55-A three-way line array modules comprised of two 12” low-frequency, one 10” midrange and three 1.5” neodymium compression drivers flown eight per side. 9 TTS-56A 6800-watt double 21” subwoofers set up in cardioid format will be groundstacked for low frequency support.
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