LOS ANGELES — For Icon Ultra Lounge, which had been using a rented sound system since it opened in 2011, ACI Pro Audio provided a more permanent setup with RCF gear for the venue’s lounge and rooftop. Components include HDL 20-A Line array boxes, SUB 8006-AS subwoofers and RCF’s P Series All-weather loudspeakers.
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WEE WAA, Australia – To celebrate the release of their latest album, Random Access Memories, Daft Punk planned a performance at a venerable but somewhat obscure three-day farming event in this remote cotton-growing community situated some 350 miles from Sydney. To support the event, Norwest Productions provided the band with an Adamson Energia E15 system. Each of the four arrays consisted of eight Energia E15s with six T21 subwoofers.
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Waves Audio calls its SoundGrid Extreme, the latest iteration of its SoundGrid protocol for live applications, the most powerful SoundGrid DSP Server yet. The company is touting SoundGrid Extreme’s ability to tackle a variety of heavy-duty processing challenges.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – For Jakarta Praise Community Church (JPCC)’s newest location, on the third floor of the Kota Kasablanka Mall in downtown Jakarta, Soundworks Productions installed a VUE Audiotchnik al-8 compact line array system, chosen in part for its “really good high frequency definition,” according to Soundworks owner Pongky Prasetyo.
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LONDON, UK – Tour manager Tim Boardman and sound engineer Bryony October have been providing smaller-scale tours for Moya and other artists in Europe with big-production sound with Soundcraft Si Performer 3 and Si Expression consoles. Along with ease of use, which helped Boardman learn and use the Performer 3 to rescue a show when October had to visit the hospital recently in Dortmund, Germany, the duo credited Soundcraft’s ViSi Remote app for iPad.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — For Woodlawn Baptist Church, which was looking to upgrade an outdated audio gear with a new system better suited to the music that accompanies its services, Technical Services Group (TSG) installed a WorxAudio TrueLine X5i-BA line array system with an X115i subwoofer for low-end support..
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MOSCOW — The Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army (CATRA)’s recent audio system upgrade included Alcons Audio gear, chosen in part for its ability to be heard but not seen. LTM Music Company provided and installed the gear for the 1,420-seat auditorium. The L-R 14m high mid/high columns each contain QR36, QM36, QR18 and QM18 units, with 12m high bass columns featuring QB363 subs. In total the system includes 28x 18” pro-ribbon drivers, 84x 6.5” M/F drivers and 26x 12” bass drivers.
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SCHWERIN, Germany — The Schwerin Castle Festival (Schlossfestspiele Schwerin), which drew crowds to the grounds of the centuries-old castle here for an outdoor performance of the operatta, Die Fledermaus form June 14 to July 21, got a wireless assist from the Dresden branch of Germany’s Neumann & Müller with 68 channels of Shure ULX-D digital wireless.
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OMAHA, NE – Diversified Design Group and Midwest Sound and Lighting provided a new sound system for the family-oriented Rose Theatre here that included a Yamaha M7CL digital mixing console and the Symetrix SymNet DSP system. Today, three years after its installation, the system is still proving to meet the venue’s needs.
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BOURBONNAIS, IL – For a 72,000 square-foot field house at 4,500-student Olivet Nazarene University, which houses four basketball courts and is ringed by a running track, AVI Systems provided Danley Sound Labs GH-60 Genesis Horns and Danley TH-118 subwoofers in a steered cardioids array. Along with sporting events, the field house will soon be hosting concerts, ceremonies and other large events.
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LOS ANGELES – Guitar Center Christopher Ian Bennett vice president, communications and corporate affairs, a new position. In his previous role, Bennett led Best Buy Canada’s corporate communications department, working under Mike Pratt, who is now Guitar Center’s CEO.
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MILFORD, NH – Earthworks president and CEO, Heidi Blackmer Robichaud, pictured here, announced that Peavey Electronics has been named as the company’s master distributor for its products in the Asia Pacific region. Brent Beery is managing director APAC for Peavey Electronics.
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