WINNIPEG – PAG Canada Ltd. added industry veteran Jennifer Carr to its sales team in Western Canada. John McArthur, vice President of Sales & Marketing of PAG Canada, Ltd., announced the appointment just prior to Winter NAMM 2014.
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STONE MOUNTAIN, GA – The owners of Stone Mountain Park hired Atlanta-based Full Spectrum to deploy Symetrix SymNet Edge Dante networked audio DSP system. Plans call for the system to grow and eventually expand to cover all of the park’s attractions via an inexpensive Cat5 network.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Lotus Teknoloji, K-array’s distributor in Turkey and Cyprus, recently installed a K-array solution in the Limonata Restaurant Bar & Lounge. Recently opened in Istanbul’s Akaretler district, the restaurant’s interior design is a mixture of old and new, furnishings from the 50’s and art-deco materials, luxury and taste … with a colorful Bohemian flair.
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MINNEAPOLIS – This season the Donny and Marie Christmas tour brought the Osmonds’ family-friendly blend of music, dancing, comedy and entertainment to audiences across the US. The 15-city arena tour featured the Osmonds performing holiday music, hit songs and more—even mixing in classic clips from 1970s holiday TV broadcasts that hadn’t been seen in decades. The all-out entertainment extravaganza delivered with the help of a HARMAN JBL VTX Series line array audio system provided by Livonia, Michigan-based Thunder Audio.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — The Arsenio Hall Show premiered in September 2013 and features a mix of comedy, music and celebrity guests, adding a new perspective to the late-night scene. Peter Baird is the sound system designer as well as the music mixer for the show. Collaborating with the production mixer, house and monitor engineers, he chose five Yamaha CL Digital Audio Consoles and six Rio3224-D input/output boxes to kick off the season. Two CL5s and one CL3 are used at front of house with two CL5s at the monitor mix position.
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BROOKFIELD, WI — Majic Productions has expanded its rental inventory with Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 and GLD-80 digital mixers. The company is led by Mike Jurken, president and CEO, who got his start running his own DJ business 14 years ago, when he was only 12 years old. Pictured here with the new mixers are, from left, Logan Byrne, Majic’s lead sound tech, and Brad Butterfield.
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ROCHESTER, NY – The “new” Sibley Building in downtown Rochester, New York rose out of the ashes of the original Sibley Building, which served as the city’s first department store and burned down in 1906. It has remained an architectural fixture ever since and was admitted to National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The lower levels serve as retail space and help to anchor Rochester’s current downtown revitalization. Its public areas recently benefited from a sound system overhaul that centered on processing, amplification, and control provided by commercial audio manufacturer Ashly Audio of nearby Webster, New York.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Sennheiser is exhibiting a concept microphone developed by its San Francisco-based Technology and Innovation Lab at its booth at Winter NAMM (Hall A, Booth 6577) that uses visuals (laser vibrometers) instead of audio (acoustic waves) to trigger the gates for each drum.
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FLERO, Brescia, Italy – Outline announced that it has hired telecom engineer Andrea Ippolito (pictured here) and named Anastasia Klinushkina as business developer supporting the sales office. Ippolito has already worked for several months on the iMode project, under the guidance of engineer Daniele Pagani. Klinushkina, whose native language is Russian, is also fluent in English, Italian and German.
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PORT PERRY, Ontario – For John Legend’s Made to Love tour, Sound Image provided an Adamson Energia E15 PA system. The typical setup includes L-R hangs of 12 enclosures per side with front fill support provided by four SpekTrix enclosures. Sound Image, based in Nashville and Escondido, CA, is also providing eight Adamson Energia E218 subwoofers.
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OSLO – Ingensteds, a multi-purpose venue that opened here last summer after a major renovation that included a new sound reinforcement system from Trondheim and Oslo-based Avon, now hosts events that range from classical music performances to disco parties and weddings. The new sound system pairs VUE Audiotechnik’s a-15 and a-8 two way systems with dual, soffit-mounted as-215 subwoofers.
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