ZWAAG, The Netherlands — Alcons Audio announced the start of its Launch Partner Program for the company’s long-awaited LR24 pro-ribbon line-array system. Designed specifically for the concert touring and large-scale installation market, and first shown at the Prolight+Sound in 2010, Alcons Audio said it has now concluded LR24’s initial beta phase.
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COQUITLAM, BC, Canada — The mid-May itinerary for Tegan and Sara Quin had the Canadian sisters jetting from Perth to Singapore and Jakarta before returning to North America for a gig with The Killers in Camden, NJ. Gearforce, based here, supplied a Yamaha CL3 with two Rio3224-D racks for FOH mixer Scottie Baldwin, pictured here.
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SPRINGFIELD TWP, NJ — Orbital Sound, the U.K.-based sound rental company that established a company division here late last year, named Morag MacPherson vice president of the U.S.-based operation. MacPherson will work with Orbital’s international managing director Chris Headlam.
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NEW YORK — Wuppertal, Germany-based Riedel Communications won a Sports Emmy Award in the “Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage” category for the company’s involvement with the Red Bull Stratos project. Riedel received the honor from the National Academy of Television Arts and Science at the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards, held May 7 in New York City.
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BRASILIA, Brazil — Capital Inicial, a post punk/New Wave band that established early momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, has continued to ride that wave of success through the 2000s to the present day. FOH engineer Luis Mazzei has been optimizing the band’s sound with a different kind of Waves — the studio plugin software — since 2001. He was an early adopter of the company’s Soundgrid for live performances as well.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — Dutch PA company SoundWorks supplied 28 Allen & Heath ME-1 personal monitor mixers for singer Lee Towers, who recently hosted concerts over several nights at the New Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam.
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HONG KONG — DPA Microphones announced that it has opened a new office here headed by Ken Kimura, DPA APAC general manager, who had previously been based in Shanghai.
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LONDON — The London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) made the Guinness Book of Records with a staged performance featuring 1,169 voices. FOH engineer Raphael Williams and monitor engineer Nikoma Bell mixed the performance on 96- and 64-channel Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, respectively.
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LONDON — Hillsong Church, a Pentecostal megachurch with worship sites located around the globe, is using a Riedel intercom solution to support weekly services at the Dominion Theatre in Central London. It includes Riedel’s Performer digital partyline intercom and Acrobat digital wireless intercom.
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LAGOS, Nigeria — Paragonis Multimedia Productions, brought in to provide technical support for the fifth Port Harcourt Carnival, a.k.a. CarniRiv, got an assist from their collection of PreSonus StudioLive consoles. Paragonis has purchased 10 of the consoles for rentals and installations.
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil— Pro audio distributor ProShows, based here, recently concluded a six-month marathon of sorts, conduction 500 workshops featuring the Behringer X32 digital mixer. The workshops showcased the functional versatility of Behringer’s flagship mixer and focused on both live and studio applications for the X32.
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WILKESBORO, NC — For the 2013 edition of Merlefest, the performers — including Leon Russell, The Charlie Daniels Band and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others — weren’t exactly new-fangled. But much of the audio gear was. SE Systems provided Nexo STM speakers and Yamaha CL5 digital audio consoles.
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