LITHONIA, GA —Emmanuel Seventh Day Adventist Church, based here, has been using a Line 6 XD-V75 digital wireless system supplied by Guitar Center Pro for its weekly services led by Pastor Kenneth Boswell and Praise Team Leader Dale Brown. The services, for a congregation close to 450, also feature solo vocalists along with a choir and praise team.
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ROSEVILLE, CA — The Bayside Church, based here, is known to many as the home to house of worship leader and influential musician, Lincoln Brewster. Brewster and other church leaders opted to upgrade the speaker system for the 2,300-seat main campus location with a NEXO GEO S12 line array, RS18s and NXAmps supplied by Special Event Services (SES), Sacramento. Bayside Church has a total of four locations, and more than 12,000 members of the congregation attend worship services on any given weekend.
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ALEXANDRIA, VA — Harman’s Soundcraft is kicking off 2013 with new dates for its “Mixing with Professionals” (MwP) series, starting with two sessions at AV rental and staging company Audio Visual Actions, Inc., based here. The MwP sessions will be held from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Wed., Feb. 6. James Lawrenson, FOH engineer for Foster the People (and a Soundcraft Vi6 user) is hosting.
Read More »SEATTLE — Symetrix named World Representation Inc. as its representative for direct-to-dealer sales in the Middle East for SymNet Edge and Radius Dante network audio DSP, ARC-WEB browser-based control technology, along with Symetrix teleconferencing DSP hardware and software.
Read More »AMSTERDAM — The third AV Networking Congress is set for Tuesday, Jan. 29 at the Holiday Inn Amsterdam. More than 25 industry consultants and manufacturers will be presenting AV networking case studies during the day-long event. Along with panel discussions, there will be interactive demonstrations and workshops. Attendees will include AV design consultants, installation contractors, networking experts, and pro audio equipment vendors.
Read More »SALT LAKE CITY — ClearOne reported that it had entered into a settlement agreement with UBS Financial Services on an auction-rate securities dispute dating back to 2008. UBS agreed to pay $45 million. ClearOne also noted that an arbitration panel denied a similar claim against Morgan Stanley.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Working together with architect Mark Cavagnero Associates and SIA Acoustics, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre and video consulting for the new SFJAZZ Center, which opened Jan. 21. The new three-story Center’s main venue, the Robert N. Miner Auditorium, can be formatted with as many as eight configurations, seating 350 to 700. Other spaces include the Ensemble Room for rehearsals or as an intimate performance space, three practice rooms and a digital lab.
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Fostex is offering two new products aimed directly at the high end pro segment – the TH-900 dynamic headphone and the HP-A8C 32-bit DAC/ headphone amplifier. The two products are sold separately but matched for each other.
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Roland Systems Group is providing free downloadable Windows video capture software for both their VR Series Video Mixers and VC Video Converters. This capture software was developed to meet the request from Windows users who want to record/capture the audio and video during live events using any of the products from the Roland VR or VC line-up.
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Tascam’s TH-02, billed as a “$100 headphone for less than a third of the cost,” is engineered with a sensitivity and frequency response promising to deliver clear balanced sound with a variety of music genres.
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SHANGHAI, China — At the 2012 World Music Shanghai Festival, which drew close to 12,000 people to six different locations over a six-day span, Sennheiser China provided crew and gear including K-array KH15, KO70, KR402 and KR202 components. The crew included close to 10 technicians and sound designers for Sennheiser’s local tech partner, Real Live.
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TOMS RIVER, NJ — JD Sound and Video replaced the 1970s-vintage sound system at Ocean County College’s multi-use Athletics Hall and Gymnasium with Community Professional’s R-Series loudspeakers and iBOX subwoofers.
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