BRENTWOOD, MO — Ironman Sound Industries (ISI), a lighting, video, staging and sound rental company based in this St. Louis suburb, announced its relocation to an expanded facility a block away from its previous location. The new address is 290 Hanley Industrial Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144.
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LEEDS and GLASGOW, U.K. — Andrea Bocelli drew crowds to Leeds’ First District Arena and Glasgow’s SSE Hydro in Nov. 2013, with FOH engineer Andrea Taglia handling the mix. Taglia specified Outline’s GTO system for both shows. The main system included 45 GTO enclosures hung in an L-C-R configuration, augmented at the low end with 24 Outline SubTech subwoofers.
Read More »ANAHEIM, CA — NAMM welcomed eight new members to its board of directors on Jan. 25 during the association’s winter show. The new members, pictured here, include Blake Augsburger, Harman Professional, Inc.; Pat Averwater, Amro Music Stores, Inc.; Peter Dods, Easy Music Center; Todd Heid, Heid Music; Gabriela Konig, König & Meyer GmbH & Co.; Sheryl Laukat, Cannonball Musical Instruments; Liz Reisman, Creative Music & Arts LLC; and Tom Sumner, Yamaha Corporation of America.
Read More »STAMFORD, CT, and MAHWAH, NJ — Harman and its subsidiary, Studer Professional Audio GmbH, reached an agreement with D&M and subsidiary Calrec Audio Ltd. regarding Studer’s patents related to its FaderGlow technology.
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CHESTER, PA — Community Professional Loudspeakers named Max Lindsay-Johnson international sales manager. Lindsay-Johnson has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and business management experience, previously holding senior positions for Duran Audio BV and Harman Pro UK. In his new role, Lindsay-Johnson is tasked with ensuring the continued growth of Community Professional’s international sales.
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ST. LOUIS — Tony Badamo, pro sound and AV specialist at Tech Electronics, configured and packaged a new, portable on-field system for Edward Jones Dome, home of the St. Louis Rams. The four-stack setup is pictured here. Each stack has a One Systems 312CIM, an On Point Audio OPA-218-Sub and a Powersoft K3 DSP amplifier.
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ROCKLAND, CA — Matt Trask, creative communications director for Mosaic Christian Church, based here, has been using an Allen & Heath GLD-80 mixer to mix sound and overcome acoustic challenges for the church’s services, which are conducted in a strip mall environment.
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BOSTON — Parsons Audio recently added two Yamaha CL5 digital consoles to the Berklee Performance Center, located within the renovated Fenway Theater here. The facility serves as the primary performance space for the Berklee College of Music.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Fall, the Federal Communications Commission announced plans for an incentive auction of the 608 to 698 MHz UHF spectrum — the previous UHF TV channels 36 through 51. Many of these frequencies in this 600 MHz band are used by professional audio users, whether for wireless mics, IEM’s, intercoms and IFB talent cueing systems. Ironically, some of these affected systems migrated to those frequencies after the FCC’s previous “reallocation” of TV channels 52 to 69 (the so-called “700 MHz band” from 698 to 806 MHz) in 2008, which were made illegal for pro wireless applications after June 12, 2010. But a recent change at the FCC may spell some good news for pro wireless users.
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA — Mission Lutheran Church, based here, is using a Riedel RockNet 100 digital audio network solution to support its new contemporary worship service and Praise Team. The system, supplied and installed by Delicate Electronics as part of a sanctuary remodel, links the main worship center inputs from the stage to a Yamaha LS9 console.
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