LOHNE, Germany — Werretalhalle, a venue here that seats 250 and has a capacity for 450 without seating in place, recently installed Adamson gear including Point 15s (L-R) and Point 12 speakers (center-fill), along with Point 8s (near-fill) and Point 215s for low-end support. The gear was first used for a show featuring a Dire Straits tribute band, “Dire Strats” (setup pictured here).
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Crown’s USBX accessory, introduced at Winter NAMM 2013, enables Crown XTi, CDi and DSi Series amplifiers with a USB port to be operated via an Apple iPad/iPhone using the “Powered by Crown” App.
Read More »WOODINVILLE, WA – Loud Technologies Inc. named Henri Cohen, VP, Worldwide Sales for the Ampeg and Mackie brands. Cohen previously served as director of sales, national accounts and Latin America. Cohen will report to Alex Nelson, Ampeg and Mackie President, and continue to be based out of the company’s headquarters here. Separately, Loud Technologies named Rohan Smith, former GM of Musiclink Australia, director of APAC sales for the Mackie and Ampeg brands.
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ANAHEIM, CA — At the Winter NAMM 2013 show here, Behringer added four new models to its X32 product line: the X32 Compact, X32 Producer, X32 Rack and X32 Core.
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AKG’s C1000 S multipurpose condenser microphone, a small-diaphragm mic designed for use with drum overheads, pianos and acoustic instruments, now runs on two AA batteries instead of 9V block batteries, among other enhancements.
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Audio-Technica’s System 10 digital wireless system, geared for the needs of houses of worship, corporate use and other applications, operate in the 2.4 GHz range to avoid TV and DTV interference.
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ANAHEIM, CA — Waves Audio and DiGiCo announced a new audio hardware and software partnership called DiGiGrid at the Winter NAMM show here. DiGiCo’s James Gordon and Waves’ Mick Olesh, pictured here, made the announcement.
Read More »SUWANEE, GA — Kaltman Creations, a manufacturer of RF and EMC spectrum analyzers and antennas along with RF shielding, provided a testimonial penned by Jimmy Nicholson of These Go To Eleven Ltd. Nicholson used his recently acquired Kaltman’s Invisible Waves X RF Command Center for both Peter Gabriel’s So tour in North America and also for pop artist Conor Maynard in the U.K.
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Behringer’s iQ Series networked loudspeaker line include networking and signal processing technologies from Klark Teknik along with acoustic design by Turbosound. They are built around Behringer’s iNuke Class-D amplifiers.
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LOS ANGELES — Harold Rubens, known for his work as an FOH engineer for dozens of artists who specialize in Christian music, has been using the Yamaha CL5 Digital Audio Console on several tours in 2012 and early 2013.
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PreSonus’ new StudioLive 32.4.2AI 32-channel performance and recording digital mixer promises next-generation Active Integration technology, including a dual-core computing engine with more than 64 times the processing power (and 10,000 times more RAM) than the previous top-of-the-line StudioLive 24.4.2. Its integral communications also makes possible wireless control of the mixer without requiring an external computer.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus announced that it has teamed up with Fulcrum Acoustic, which was founded in 2008, as part of its move to add PA speakers and studio monitors to its product line. Separately, PreSonus announced that has licensed Audinate’s Dante digital-media networking technology and will incorporate Dante into optional networking cards for several of its new products.
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