RALEIGH-DURHAM/CHAPEL HILL, NC — Ryan Pickett, FOH and live performance archive recording engineer for the band My Morning Jacket, is currently using sE Electronics gear to support the band’s summer AmericanaramA Festival of Music tour with Bob Dylan and other guest artists. That gear includes Voodoo VR1 passive ribbon microphones and sE Instrument Reflexion Filter 2’s (IRF2’s).
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LAS VEGAS, NV––3G Productions, Inc. recently provided audio for the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) festivals in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas. Their PA systems included a Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) to provide the power and coverage they needed inside the venue while controlling noise spillage to surrounding residential areas.
Read More »LAS VEGAS, NV – GC Pro designed and installed a new sound system for the Saxe Theatre within the Planet Hollywood Resort on the Las Vegas Strip that includes D.A.S. Audio’s Aero Series 2 and Convert components.
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Kennedy Loudspeakers’ 3000W Concert Subwoofer incorporates two 460mm (18 inch) B&C low frequency drivers in a front-loaded, ultra-large vent configuration. The deep cabinet is designed to combine extended low frequency bandwidth with low frontal height. Equipped with curved handles and a perforated steel grill, the subwoofer can be used in ground-stacked or single-suspended applications.
Read More »BUENA PARK, Calif.—Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars (YCATS) are scheduled to be held in New York on August 13 and 14, 2013. Sessions include M7CL for Beginners (Aug. 13, 1pm-5pm), M7CL for Advanced Users (Aug. 13, 8am-12 noon), and Yamaha Technology Partners Sessions (Aug. 14, 8am-12 noon).
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Allen & Heath’s GLD OneMix, an iPad app that gives musicians wireless control of their personal monitor mix, locks control to a single Aux mix, providing instant access to a customized easy-to-use monitor mix environment.
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MOSINEE, WI – Joe Ellis, a professional commercial airline pilot who is also a professional musician, audio engineer and host on the TV show The Aviators, uses Harman’s Soundcraft Si Expression 3 console to mix live sound for a growing number of bands and events. He needed a digital console that “plays well” with other gear and also chose the Soundcraft Si Expression 3 for its sound quality.
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PRESCOTT VALLEY, AZ — Among the American firefighting community, the only day more tragic than June 30, 2013 was Sept. 11, 2001. June 30 was the day when 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots from the Prescott Fire Department lost their lives fighting a wildfire near here, leaving behind 51 children. Dierks Bentley, The Band Perry and other artists teamed up and raised a reported $476,000 with the “Country Cares Concert,” a benefit performance that took place here on July 22. All proceeds are going to the United Phoenix Firefighters, for direct distribution to surviving family members.
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CHICAGO, IL – Sensaphonics recently added three audiologists to its “Gold Circle” network, including the group’s first Brazilian member. The two-day Gold Circle seminar, held June 21-22, included teaching sessions at Sensaphonics headquarters plus a hands-on lab session with a live band held at Mystery Street Recording Company (pictured here) in Chicago.
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MONTREAL — Richard Forte of Forte Found, based here, supported jazz-pop singer Nikki Yanofsky at the July 4-6 Montreal Jazz Festival with an assist from LightViper, FiberPlex’ fiber optic transport system. His setup, which eliminates the need for a heavy copper snake, includes a head end mic preamp/line level unit, lighting multiplexer, MIDI interface, fiber optic connector, and Ethernet-to-fiber converter.
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TJØME, NORWAY — Verdens Ende, known to Norwegians as “The World’s End,” the southernmost tip of the island of Tjøme, 60 miles south of Oslo, can be a forbidding place — but not for actor Gard Eidsvold wearing Point Source Audio’s CO-5W-KIT waterproof earset microphone. There, at the sea’s edge in a driving rain, he was perched precariously above the rocks on a thin plank, vigorously rowing his symbolic boat while reciting the lines of the iconic Norwegian ballad “Terje Vigen.” Both the actor and the mic performed flawlessly before a rapt audience, which sat under hoods and umbrellas a mere 30 meters from the shoreline.
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NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands —Dutch rental company Story Sound, which supported the Emporium Festival here last year with its then-brand-new JBL VTX line arrays, deployed the gear once again to support this year’s event. Greater familiarity with the VTX gear’s high-tech tools, combined with slightly relaxed noise constraints, let Story Sound deliver a whole new level of sound quality for festival revelers for the late May event.
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