LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Brown United, now supporting the event in its 13th year, is the first company to be designated as a Platinum-level sponsor of the annual awards program. This year’s event is set for Nov. 23 at the Las Vegas Mirage.
Read More »NILES, IL — This year’s Montreux Jazz Festival, which took place July 5 through July 20, hosted a galaxy of famous artists from around the globe, including Green Day, ZZ Top, The Hives, Prince, and Sting. As in years past, Shure was an official Technical Partner of the festival and responsible for all microphones, in-ear monitoring, and wireless microphone systems for the 16 different stages and locations. For the main stage in the Auditorium Stravinski, the Axient Wireless Management Network was the system of choice, delivering flawless, interference-free performance.
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OLD LYME, CT – Audio specialist Sennheiser and the House of Blues, the iconic chain of high-quality performance venues, announced that they have renewed their alliance. Sennheiser will continue to support the House of Blues with premium microphones and wireless solutions at each of its 13 locations across the United States.
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WARSAW, Poland – Michal Ostoja-Ostaszewski, who works often with the Warsaw Philharmonic, is an FOH engineer. While “FOH mixer” is not a position typically associated with a classical orchestra, Ostoja-Ostaszewski is far from your typical live sound engineer. A classically trained master musician and technology-savvy engineer and producer, Ostoja-Ostaszewski brings a modern technological perspective to Warsaw’s concert hall. As he explains, the Mackie DL1608 digital live sound mixer has proven to be the ideal mixing console for this demanding and exacting job.
Read More »SHELBY, NC — MercyMe band members and crew were performing a sound check at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday Aug. 10 for a concert associated with the American Legion World Series when the event’s organizers noticed a wind shift and grew concerned about its intensity. Less than a minute after they evacuated the stage, a wind gust toppled the structure. The concert, also featuring Aaron Shust and The Afters, was canceled.
Read More »MONTREUX, Switzerland — Bernard Natier, FOH engineer at the Montreaux Jazz Festival’s Stravinsky Hall venue, and Jose Gaudin, FOH engineer at the Jazz LAB venue, credited the combination of DiGiCo, Waves Audio and Waves MaxxBCL technologies for helping them optimize sound quality in each venue.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s Visom Digital has become the latest of authorized API 1608 dealers. Joining the ranks of other API distributors in South America, Visom began carrying the API product line back in 2012.
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Sommer Cable’s fully reworked and unified MonoCAT cable range includes various hybrid cables that all contain network lines complemented by signal or power supply elements. This allows connecting digital sound, light or video control desks using only one cable and, as the case may be, with only one plug-in procedure, well suited to conference center installations and OB van applications.
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MINOT, ND — Great. Big. Fun. That’s how the North Dakota State Fair bills itself, and this July it lived up to its name with rides, rodeos and concerts by Tim McGraw, Journey, Scotty McCreery, Toby Keith, Brantley Gilbert and other acts. Featuring a grandstand that holds up to 16,000 people, Minneapolis, Minnesota audio production company Farber Sound has handled sound reinforcement at the North Dakota State Fair for the past five years, and this year decided to step up their game with a system based around Harman’s Crown VRACK amplifier systems.
Read More »Waves Audio’s MultiRack Version 9.5 updates MultiRack with a new graphic interface along with the ability to record to two computers simultaneously. Version 9.5 also features 1000 snapshot support for DiGiCo consoles and the ability to run most Waves Signature Series plugins on MultiRack Native or SoundGrid systems.
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RALEIGH, NC – The Red Hat Amphitheater here poses some unique acoustic challenges — a variety of nearby reflective surfaces and strict local noise ordinances. For a recent event featuring American Aquarium, Cravin Melon and the Chris Hendricks band, RMB Audio used Martin Audio’s MLA Compact system to overcome those acoustic issues.
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CHARLESTON, SC – Lou Jones of NBS Media Systems, worked with Mt. Moriah Baptist Church to host a sound reinforcement system shootout, which pitted three well-regarded line array systems against a Danley Sound Labs point source system. Mt. Moriah recently expanded, building a new 2,250-seat sanctuary on its property. Needing to have a new sound reinforcement system for the venue, Danley Sound Labs came out on top of all the competitors.
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