LONDON – Britain’s 19th National TV Awards were held recently at London’s O2. Stewart Chaney’s London-based Plus 4 Audio handled the audio in the venue, specifying a Martin Audio MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) system. The event, initiated in 1995 and moved to the O2 in 2010, featured host Dermot O’Leary and celebrated the most popular TV shows of the past year.
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NEW DELHI – Adding to his global collection of luxury nightclubs, Michael Ault recently opened Pangaea in Delhi’s Ashok Hotel. Project manager Garry Lawrence chose Outline gear for the upscale 450-capacity club. White Eagle Entertainment Pvt Ltd (Outline’s distributor for India) supplied and installed the audio, lighting and laser equipment.
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Sanctified Productions, LLC
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Grand Marais Ballroom, Jennings, LA
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Premier Audio
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DoubleTree/Hilton, Valley Forge, PA
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AMEC Church Sound Crew
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AMEC Church, Canovanas, Puerto Rico
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Airpol Sound & Light
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Congress Hall, Warsaw, Poland
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Capital Sound
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Various (European tour)
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U.S. Audio & Lighting
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Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA
I recently got an interesting letter (well, email) here from a reader who had a simple, yet thoughtful inquiry. In the message, he stated that he felt he was a pretty good sound reinforcement engineer, but was wondering if I could offer some advice on making the quantum leap from being “pretty good” to becoming a great engineer. The answer, I’m afraid isn’t so simple — if it was, I’d simply write it out and have it printed up in bags of audio fortune cookies with everything you need to know in a soundbite or two.
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It never got as cold as predicted, but that didn’t make the Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show any easier.
It was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Bruno Mars, the diminutive ball of vocal dynamite whose ability to avoid controversy made him the NFL’s pick for the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVIII, delivered an estimated 115.3 million viewers for the Feb. 2 event. They watched him and his hand-picked “special guests,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers rip though a 12-minute set at MetLife Stadium, which was prepared for sub-freezing temperatures but at showtime, Mars’ gold lamé jacket may have been plenty against what turned out to be an almost pleasant evening, with temps around the 40°F. range.
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Redemption Church, Gilbert, AZ
When Redemption Church recently committed to an expansion and retrofit of their multipurpose conference and worship center, they wanted an audio, video and lighting system that would provide a truly meaningful experience for their members.
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The massive, “big gun” 12- and 15-inch line arrays typically grab most of the attention in the pro audio press, but sometimes it’s the “little guy” mid-sized boxes that are the workhorses of the industry. This month, we turn our attention to line arrays based around 8-inch woofers, which are more compact than their 10- and 12-inch cousins and larger than the “mini” 4- to 6-inch enclosures. Yet, like Goldilocks’ preferences, these 8-inch wonders are often “just right” — whether for smaller gigs, club/theater/H.O.W. installs or used as front/down-fills, under-balcony reinforcement, delay lines — the list goes on and on.
To download a PDF of the Feb. 2014 Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE
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