BRESCIA, Italy — For Mille Miglia, a re-enactment of the classic sports car races that were held from 1927 to 1957 with a circuitous route through the Italian countryside from Brescia, Italy to Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo and back, rental company Acoustic Light provided Harman’s JBL VerTec line array systems for the start, mid-point and finish of the race.
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SACRAMENTO, CA — David L. MacDonald conceived of Sacramento’s first “Best of Broadway” charity show in 1973. Since then, the volunteer troupe has raised money for various causes. Earlier this year, they performed The Cotton Patch Gospel in support of Sacramento Family Promise. Local audio engineer Michael Strange (pictured here), who served as sound designer for the production, relied upon gear from Lectrosonics.
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SENIGALLIA, Italy — The Summer Jamboree is a festival of American Rockabilly and Swing music and culture from the 1940s and 1950s. The event, conceived and organized by the Cultural Summer Jamboree Association and promoted by the Municipality of Senigallia in collaboration with Regione Marche and private sponsors, has grown in popularity, and this year included four stages. Top Service, a rental company, provided four K-array KH15’s for the main stage and K-array KH4’s for two of the other stages.
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BOLLULLOS DE LA MITACION, Seville, Spain — MFO Producciones, based here, recently took delivery of a Turbosound Flashline PA system including 24 TFS-900H four-way line array modules, 18 TFS-900B double 18-inch subwoofers and six complete amplifier racks. The gear was quickly put to use for a series of arena events during the month of August.
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LAS VEGAS — Nominations are pouring in for both the 2013 Parnelli Awards and Indispensable Technology (“IT”) Awards. The nomination forms for both awards categories will be open through late September. If you haven’t done so already, now’s the time to choose the people, companies and products that will appear on the final 2013 Parnelli ballot. That ballot will be posted online for voting throughout the month of October. Be sure to also reserve your spot (or table) at this year’s event, set for Nov. 23, 2013. It’s expected to be a sellout like last year, but tickets are still available.
Read More »DENVER — With communities along Colorado’s Front Range pounded by more than half their usual annual rainfall within the span of a few days in mid-September, resulting floods and rock slides created widespread damage to the region’s mountain infrastructure, knocking out power, backing up sewers and washing out many of the roadways that wind their way alongside normally-dry riverbanks. Numerous concerts had to be canceled or postponed as a result.
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WATERLOO, ON — James King, Martin Audio’s marketing director, joined Jason Baird, the company’s R&D director, Simon Bull, director of sales, and Anthony Taylor, managing director, in a discussion of the company’s marketing message.
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LINZ, Austria –MEB Veranstaltungstechnik, based here, provided Adamson speaker systems for this year’s five-day World Rowing Under 23 Championship held at Reggattastrecke Ottensheim in Linz-Ottensheim, Austria. MEB’s sound reinforcement covered the grandstand and boat prep areas along with the marketplace, on-site restaurant and VIP tents..
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PORT PERRY, Ontario – Concert Systems Production Group, located in Pensacola, Florida, recently added 28 Adamson M212 stage monitors to their live event production inventory.
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CRISPENDORF, Germany – The Wolfszeit open-air festival in Crispendorf near Schleiz in Thuringia is one of the few pagan and darkmetal festivals in Germany. Gear from ProAudio Technology was used for the monitoring along with the main P.A. for the event, which drew about 3,000 visitors. The setup included 10 HT16 tops, 16 SW18 and eight SW28 subs.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY— The Audio Engineering Society (AES) has published AES67-2013, a new engineering standard for networked/streaming audio-over-IP interoperability. A number of networked audio systems have been developed to support high-performance media networking, but until now there were no recommendations for operating these systems in an interoperable manner. AES67-2013 provides interoperability recommendations regarding synchronization, media clock identification, network transport, encoding and streaming, session description and connection management.
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SILVER SPRING, MD – Global Mission Church, formerly known as First Korean Baptist Church, was established here 40 years ago and recently upgraded its audio system. Genesis Technology senior system engineer Michael Yoo and the church’s worship opted for Lab.gruppen amplifiers based on past experience with the gear. For the 450-capacity sanctuary, one Lab.gruppen FP 10000Q amp drives EAW KF695z mains and an FP6000Q powers EAW 129z stage monitors.
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