TORONTO – Red Bull staged the finals for its Thre3Style international DJ competition here in early November. Performing within different venues from Nov. 4-9, the audio reinforcement system needed to combine optimum sound quality with a compact, potable form factor. Nimble Audio Group provided a KR402 system to use as a side fill and two KF12 coaxial speakers used as monitors.
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BRONX, NY––Located on Katonah Avenue that runs through the heart of Woodlawn’s Irish section, Behan’s Public House is a popular stopover in the neighborhood. Following a fire this summer, the pub was totally renovated with a new bar, furnishings, millwork and a Martin Audio loudspeaker system installed by New York City’s Foundation Audio.
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BURLINGTON, MA – Avid recently named technology industry veterans Rick Lowenstein and Mitch Weaver to senior level positions within the company. Lowenstein, who joins Avid from Adobe Systems, was named senior vice president of customer success and professional services. (He is pictured here.) Weaver, who joins the company from Cadence Design Systems, was named vice president of software development.
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BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. has announced a Trade IN, Trade UP program that will take place January 8 – March 31, 2014. This program is available to all customers who own a Yamaha M7CL-48 (this configuration only) Digital Mixing Console.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – William Kentridge, known for an artistic scope that extends from drawings and prints to operas and charcoal drawn animations, also incorporates artistic audio elements. For his installation, “The Refusal of Time,” which appeared as part of the dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 2012, Kentridge combined sculpture with digital video and multi-layered soundscapes. The installation incorporated PreSonus’ AudioBox 1818VSL as the central audio hub. “The Refusal of Time” has since appeared at numerous museums worldwide, including Rome, Paris, and Eindhoven. New installations are scheduled in Germany, Japan, Australia, and the U.S.
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ZWAAG, NETHERLANDS — Based on Alcons’ R-Ray design study from 2008, the RR12 extends Alcons’ famous line-source technology into different applications. By implementing the unique features of Alcons’ multiple-patented pro-ribbon technology in a modular concept, the RR12 has been developed as “building block” to create tight packed arrays for controlled sound coverage in the widest variety of audience areas.
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ESCONDIDO, CA – Solid State Logic is continuing to add to its U.S. reseller network for SSL Live consoles with the appointment of professional touring and contracting company Sound Image. Headquartered here, Sound Image also has offices in Arizona and Tennessee, and has been providing sound reinforcement services to the industry’s biggest rock, country and pop acts for more than 40 years.
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PROVIDENCE, RI – The 13,000-capacity Dunkin’ Donuts Center, home to the American Hockey League’s Providence Bruins and Providence College Men’s Basketball, also hosts corporate events, trade shows, commencements and concerts. Extensively remodeled in 2008, the venue was recently upgraded further with loudspeakers, power amplifiers and digital routing systems from Electro-Voice.
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HUME, CA – Whether the staff at Hume Lake Christian Camp are performing services at home or on the road, one thing is certain, they will be using DPA Microphones’ d:fine Miniature Headset Microphones. With services held at four camps situated on 360 acres in Sequoia National Park, its campus in San Diego and its 400-acre camp in Connecticut, as well as during outreach trips to locations such as Hawaii, South Africa and Papua New Guinea, Hume Lake needs high-quality headset microphones that will stand up to the rigors of repeated use.
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Waves Audio is now shipping its Scheps 73 plugin. The Waves Scheps 73 is a 3-band EQ modeled on the classic 1073 console EQ and mic preamp module and developed in association with well-known mixing engineer Andrew Scheps (Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Lana Del Rey, Metallica, Jay-Z). Using new technologies to model the Marinair transformer, Waves says its Scheps 73 plug-in meticulously captures all the sonic characteristics of the 1073, including its harmonic distortion, whose overtones were tweaked by Andrew Scheps himself.
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EDISON, NJ — DVA Composer is an easy-to-use software program for configuring and aiming dB Technologies DVA Series of active line array and subwoofer modules. A useful tool to aid audio engineers plan and deploy the dB Technologies system, the software is designed for intuitive handling, determining the optimum angles and system presets based on the array height, desired range and number of DVA components entered by the user; provides all the mechanical data, frame angle positions and flybar settings; and determines the proper DSP EQ presets.
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VERONA, Italy – Electro-Voice systems provided the sound reinforcement for “Opera on Ice” in Verona’s historic amphitheater. The 2013 show drew 12,000 to the live spectacle. The sound system was the responsibility of Backstage PA. Among the systems used were XLD line-array elements, Xsubs, CP3000S and CP4000S power amps, and DC-One and Dx46 controllers – all from Electro-Voice.
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