KELOWNA, BC, Canada — In late 2012, Willow Park Church presented the 21st annual “Living Nativity” holiday production. Along with the efforts of more than 500 volunteers, the annual presentation has long relied upon Countryman Associates’ E6 Omni Earset microphones. The mics are also used for the church’s weekly worship services.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman Professional named Marc Lee Shannon senior manager, business development for its USA Regional Sales Office (RSO). In this role Shannon will focus primarily on sales efforts for AKG professional audio products and will also be involved in brand promotions for other Harman Professional companies. He will report to Mark Posgay, Harman’s senior director, US Sales.
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SALT LAKE CITY —Rex Reed was named director of engineering of Harman Signal Processing. Reed will oversee engineering for the BSS Audio, dbx, Lexicon and DigiTech brands. He will report to John Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager of Harman’s Signal Processing and Amplifier Business Units.
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NEW YORK — Jose Luis Perales’ monitor engineer, Miguel Arbo, and FOH engineer, Miguel Torroja, are currently touring with the artist in support of his most recent album, Calle Soledad. Arbo credited the myMix personal monitoring system from Movek as a valuable addition to the tour.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman named Jim Ure to its U.S. Regional Sales Office (RSO) division as business development manager, Installed Sound, Eastern Region. Separately, Harman named Anton Pukshansky, a Grammy award winning producer, engineer, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, as its territory sales manager for Southern California and Southern Nevada. Prior to Harman, Pukshansky also worked for MW Audio and Loud Technologies.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Master Audio has upgraded the point source cabinets in its flagship Xcellence range with new high-end amplifier and DSP modules featuring Ethernet connectivity, bringing them up to speed with the advanced line array units in the series.
Read More »MELBOURNE, Australia — Music Group named Galactic Music, based here, as its distributor for Behringer, Bugera and Eurocom products in Australia. Galactic has assumed responsibility for sales, distribution and service to a network of dealers across the country. In order to better serve their dealers, Galactic planned to relocate to larger premises in Melbourne by Jan. 14, 2013.
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ROSEMONT, IL — LiveSpace, a design/build firm based in Michigan, has specified Midas PRO2 consoles for use in several of Toby Keith-branded outlets serving up food, drink and live music. The outlets are called Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, after the singer’s 2003 hit, “I Love This Bar.”
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DALLAS, Texas — After four years of holding services in its 2,100-seat interim worship center, Watermark Community Church, based here, has moved its congregation into a new 3,500-seat main sanctuary. Acoustic Dimensions once again served as the consultant for the client and once again specified an L-Acoustics KUDO loudspeaker system, which was installed by Clair Brothers Audio Systems.
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COLUMBUS, OH — The Ohio State Buckeyes football team, which recently finished an undefeated 2012 regular season, got an audible boost from its new Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. Representing the first-ever permanent LEO installation, the sound system filled 105,000-seat Ohio Stadium with both spoken word and music over the loud cheers of the crowd for all eight home games.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Theatre consulting firm Shalleck Collaborative, based here, specified L-Acoustics KIVA and KARA loudspeakers for six high schools overseen by California’s San Mateo Union High Schools District. The new and refurbished theaters are associated with Aragon, Burlingame, Capuchino, Hillsdale, Mills and San Mateo high schools.
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QSC Audio Products announced that Salo Loyo, the keyboardist for Luis Miguel, has joined the company’s K for Musicians group and has recently used the company’s K Series gear for shows in the Americas and Spain.
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