LAS VEGAS — The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) reported that total registered attendance for the 2014 NAB Show was 98,015, an uptick of more than four percent from 2013. Exhibit space was also up more than seven percent from the previous year, with the event comprising 1,746 exhibiting companies spanning 945,000 net square feet of exhibit space.
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PENRYN, U.K. — Allen & Heath named Christian Luecke sales and marketing director. Luecke has 15 years’ experience in the consumer electronics market where he managed European B2C business for Sony and Samsung. He joins the company’s board of directors and will oversee the company’s global sales and marketing operations. Along with Luecke, the A&H board includes the company’s Managing Director, Glenn Rogers; Finance Director, Dave Jones; Operations Director, Tony Williams; and R&D Director, Rob Clark.
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MEXICO CITY — For the Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias Fine Arts Center, a 650-seat theater serving the ACF (American School Foundation) preparatory school here, Showco SA de CV provided an Adamson Metrix line array system.
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KIRKLAND, WA — To record live performances by Northwest University’s Concert Choir, including their yearly choral concert, Steve Smith has been using Audio Technica’s AT5040 and AT4047/SV mics.
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AUCKLAND, NZ — Four Allen & Heath Qu-16 digital rackmount mixers were used for the recent New Zealand Folk Festival here. Running for 40 years, the event annually attracts a lineup of international touring artists. Engineer Davyd Hodge detailed how the mixers’ features matched up with the needs of the event.
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NASHVILLE — For The Band Perry’s first world tour, titled “We Are Pioneers,” FOH engineer Jon Garber is using gear from Radial Engineering to reliably optimize the band’s touring sound, including Radial’s J48, Reamp JCR, ProD8, JPC, JDI Duplex and JDX units. Garber called the Radial J48, pictured here, “the best sounding DI box out there.”
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ORLANDO — LMG, a national provider of video, audio, and lighting gear and services with offices here, recently regained the contract as the onsite, preferred AV supplier at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) here — a fourth term. Pictured here is LMG’s OCCC team.
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AMSTERDAM — The Yamato troupe of Japanese taiko drummers used the d:vote 4099 Rock Touring Kit from DPA Microphones for their recent tour of venues around Europe. Sound Adventure provided the audio gear for the tour. Pictured here is Erik Bouwmeester, owner of Sound Adventure and FOH engineer for Yamato.
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GHENT, Belgium — Pro audio and lighting specialists ARC-Productions, based near this city in Belgium’s Flanders region, have confirmed the purchase of 16-enclosure Martin Audio MLA Compact and Mini PA rigs, the first company in that country to do so. Pictured here are, from left, Steven Kemland, Andy Davies (Martin Audio), Marc De Baets and Andreas Weingärtner (Martin Audio) at the PL+S booth in Frankfurt.
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Harman’s dbx is now shipping its DriveRack PA2 Loudspeaker Management System, which is designed to optimize loudspeaker systems. The product targets bands, musicians and artists who carry their own PA and could also be well suited for a wide range of installed sound applications. The DriveRack PA2 promises to make it easier to set up a system and control it on the fly using via an Android, iOS, Mac, or Windows mobile device or laptop.
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GAINESVILLE, GA — Danley Sound Labs detailed several stadium installation projects where its gear has played a key role, including the home stadiums for the NFL Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills. Other recent projects include Juárez Vive, a baseball stadium in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, along with a variety of outdoor stadiums used for college sports and indoor hockey and basketball arenas. Pictured here, Wells Fargo Arena at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.
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OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser is providing space on its website at www.sennheiser.com/spectrum to keep customers informed on wireless microphones and the changing UHF spectrum. While predicting that wireless microphone operation in the 600 MHz Range will remain “status quo” through 2016, the company continues to file comments with the FCC on its customers’ behalf.
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