HERNING, Denmark —Team Teatret, a theatre company, built a cube-like structure in the pavilion of the MCH Messecenter Herning exhibition center here for its one-man production, Dokumentaristen. Ingvar Cronhammar, the theatre company’s sound engineer, chose K-array gear for the unique performance space, including 12 KP52s, four KMT21s, two KMT18s and a KA10 amplifier.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA – Hosa Technology, a manufacturer of analog and digital connectivity products for musicians and AV pros, has received ISO 9001:2008 certification. Hosa’s ISO project commenced in May 2012 and the company obtained certification on June 20, 2013.
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NASHVILLE – Live sound engineer Matt Fitzgerald is using a DiGiCo SD10 console for monitor mixing on this year’s Frampton’s Guitar Circus tour, which features a long list of accomplished guitarists along with Peter Frampton. Clair Global providing the consoles and full stage package.
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OXFORD, U.K. — Solid State Logic named industry veteran Jay Easley vice president of Live Consoles in the Americas. Easley, most recently with Midas/Klark Teknik, will work closely with the company’s U.S. operation, SSL Inc., to assist with the studio console company’s push into North and South America’s live music marketplace.
Read More »LAS VEGAS, NV – Four-time Grammy Award winning recording engineer, producer, arranger and song writer, James “Bonzai” Caruso, is the featured speaker at the inaugural “Inside the Studio” at IADT (International Academy of Design & Technology) Las Vegas on July 11, 2013. Sponsored by the IADT Audio Production department, the open forum Q&A and “meet & greet” session is at the school’s new industry-standard recording and mixing studio, Vegas View Recording. The event is free and open to the public.
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ARLINGTON, TX – As a global set of conferences operating under the slogan ‘ideas worth spreading,’ TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conferences focus on the convergence of the three fields that comprise its name. The TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations, and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. Recently, the TEDxUTA event was sponsored by The University of Texas at Arlington and, to help ensure consistent audio quality for this real-time streamed over the Internet event without a maze of cables, a pair of DNTBOB 88 Dante breakout boxes from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics were placed into service.
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NASHVILLE — For this year’s CMA Music Festival, held at Riverside Park here June 6-9, Morris Light & Sound provided new NEXO STM line arrays, PS15s, RS18 Ray Subs, 4×4 NXAmps, 45 N-12 line monitors, Yamaha CL5 digital consoles and Rio3224 input/output boxes, all connected via a Dante network.The event drew a record 44,000 the first day and more than 162,000 for the four-day span.
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BEDFORDSHIRE, UK – Cadac has announced an expansion of its marketing team with the creation of dedicated brand development and brand marketing positions, and the appointment of Richard ‘Fez’ Ferriday and James Godbehear, respectively, to these positions (pictured here, L-R). Both had previously held similar positions at Midas/Klark Teknik.
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Bose Professional expands its RoomMatch array line with the RMS218 module that extends system response down to 25 Hz. The Baltic-birch plywood enclosure has two LF18 18-inch high-excursion, 4.5-inch voice coil, neodymium-magnet woofers in a V-baffle design with a large center port. An optional kit allows for suspended array applications. Rated frequency response is 30 Hz to 200 Hz (±3 dB); continuous power handling is 2,500 watts with 141 dB peak SPL’s.
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LONDON – DPA Microphones’ d:facto vocal microphones are being used at more of the live music venues here, including, recently, The Union Chapel in Islington and the Pizza Express Jazz Club on Dean Street in London’s SoHo. At the 900-capacity Union Chapel, head technician Les Mommsen credited the microphone for its “natural and detailed” sound. At the smaller Pizza Express Jazz Club, Luc Saint-Martin of Oneland Productions appreciated its “versatile, modular design.”
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NASHVILLE – PreSonus is hosting an open house event with a live music performance by Briana Tyson on July 11 at Ben’s Studio here. The event is from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and featured products include StudioLive AI-series PA speakers, StudioLive 32.4.2AI digital mixers, Studio One 2.6, the ADL 700 tube preamp/channel strip and Eris-series studio monitors.
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YONKERS, NY – Dan Rooney’s Café & Bar, a Pittsburgh, PA-based landmark since the early 1900s, has been recreated for the latest expansion of Empire City Casino, which is, itself, an outgrowth from the venerable Yonkers Raceway horse racing track here. The new pub’s sound system, installed by Pittsburgh-based Dobil Laboratories, includes gear made by D.A.S. Audio, including a LX-212A, Convert 12A and Road 12A components.
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