SEATTLE – The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a nonprofit enterprise dedicated to youth, technical music production and education, is now in its 16th year. Joining the Vans Warped Tour’s live events on the West Coast, the educational Tour Bus benefited from sponsorship support from Neutrik.
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MANILA, The Philippines – Cadac named Stagecraft International Trading Group, based here, as its regional distributor for the Philippines. The company is also exhibiting for the first time at PALMM Philippines, an event set for Aug. 15-17 at the SMX Convention Center Pasay City, The Philippines.
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CLEVELAND, OH – The Riverside Company, based here, has acquired Westlake Village, CA-based Blue Microphones. Riverside plans to help the company expand globally while deepening its share in all markets, in addition to developing new products.
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NEW YORK, NY — Following the highly successful 50th International Conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which focused on audio education, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) will hold its 51st International Conference in Helsinki, Finland, August 21-24, 2013.
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Radial Engineering Ltd.’s updated SW8 backing track switcher is now shipping.
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WEST SUSSEX, UK — Turbousound named industry veteran Howard Smart Senior Technical Support Specialist. In his new role Smart will spearhead Turbosound’s training program for sound engineers and systems technicians in the use of the company’s concert touring and fixed installation loudspeaker systems. In addition he will manage the team that provides onsite hands-on technical support to new users of Turbosound’s Flashline, Flex Array and Flashline Mini loudspeaker systems.
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Allen & Heath’s Qu-16 compact Digital Mixer is now shipping to dealers.
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LONDON – Like a “Fine Studio Monitor” for Michael Bublé’s 10 consecutive sellouts at London’s O2 arena, FOH engineer Craig Doubet mixed the shows for 16,000 fans per night on a powerful Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system provided by Montreal-based Solotech.
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ROTHBURY, MI – Electric Forest, a music festival held here, features an electro-themed set of concerts that take place on six stages over the course of four days. Burst Sound & Lighting Systems, based in Detroit, was tapped to provide sound reinforcement systems for the main Tripolee stage as well as The Observatory, one of the smaller stages at the festival, with Adamson E15 line arrays.
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BADEN, Austria – TON Eichinger Professional Sound Systems provided a wireless system upgrade at the Bühne Baden theatre here. The sales and rental provider equipped the venue with Digital Hybrid Wireless technology from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics.
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QUEENSLAND, Australia – Salt House is a unique dining, bar, and entertainment venue situated at Marina Point here. Fintan Rafferty and Luis Garozzo, owners and managers of Salt House recently decided to replace the existing sound system in the main Bar and Outdoor Deck Bar. It was at this stage that the experience of Mick Evans from Talk to the Mac was enlisted. Mick worked with Syntec International, K-array’s distributor in Australia and New Zealand to come up with a K-array solution.
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BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. announces the availability of StageMix 4.0 for Yamaha CL, M7CL, and LS9 digital consoles. Updates available include new Dynamics Parameter Editing, Output Port Delay Editing, Output Port Levels (Gain/Attenuation), PEQ Copy and Paste, Phantom Power Switching, Mix Send Pre/Post Switching, HPF Slope Parameter (CL V1.5 only), Retina Display Support, and other enhancements.
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