ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — The Carnival festival tradition has expanded from Trinidad and Tobago on the two days prior to Ash Wednesday to other dates on the calendar, and locations in the U.S. Earlier this year, the festive celebrations of Caribbean culture took place here, and also in Brooklyn, NY and Miami Gardens, FL with NYC-based Advanced Audio, Miami-based Master Sound Productions and D.A.S. Audio all playing a key role.
Read More »ANAHEIM, CA — The 2013 NAMM Show, set to take place at the Anaheim Convention Center here Jan. 24-27, has expanded beyond its traditional focus and now counts Harman, Avid, Chauvet, Bosch, Sennheiser, Shure, Korg, Tascam, Yamaha, American DJ and Behringer among its exhibitors. The conference will also include a wide array of training and demonstration opportunities for live entertainment technology professionals.
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HAMBURG — Rocky, a musical production produced by Stage Entertainment, Sylvester Stallone and the boxers Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko, made its debut here in mid-November with support from Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup technologies for sound reinforcement and monitoring, including Aurus and Crescendo consoles linked to a Nexus network.
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MAIDSTONE, U.K. — For No Saints’ Wonderland nightclub, which opened here on a site formerly occupied by Liquid, Mark Damon of Essex-based Cosmic Electronics provided a sound system using RCF’s Acustica series gear including four pairs of the new H1312 covering the dance floor.
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JUNO BEACH, FL — Florida Power & Light (FPL), which often uses the atrium at its headquarters here for small and large assemblies, recently contracted with Peerson Audio, Jupiter, FL, for something more than a temporary, speaker-on-stick solution. Allen Peerson installed QFlex steerable array loudspeakers from Tannoy.
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GAINESVILLE, GA — Danley Sound Labs named Jonathan “JP” parker national sales manager. Parker, who will be responsible for Danley’s loudspeakers, subwoofers, and supporting processors and amplifiers, has more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience with companies including Bose, Crown, TOA and Martin Audio. He reports to Danley president Mike Hedden.
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SEATTLE — The Triple Door, a 300-seat, vaudeville style theatre originally built in 1926, has been making good use of a sound system that includes a selection of Sennheiser evolution series microphones (e600, e800 and e900 instrument and vocal microphones), a Yamaha PM1D 96 channel digital console and a JBL VerTec series medium-sized line array loudspeaker system.
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LONDON — EM Acoustics, which has followed up on the 2009 launch of the company’s HALO line array system with their HALO Compact line array system, announced Sound By Design’s use of the gear at London’s Royal Albert Hall in October followed by Stage Electric’s use of the compact arrays for the 750-seat Great Hall within the Queen’s Building, formerly known as the People’s Palace.
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COLUMBUS, MS — Audio Communications Consultants of Memphis, TN included One Systems 115RW and 103IM speakers as part of the renovation project for Poindexter Hall at Mississippi University of Women (MUW) here.
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AMSTERDAM — After putting DPA Microphones’ new handheld d:facto Vocal Microphone through its paces on her recent tour, Dutch singer and vocal coach Margot Giselle credited the vocal mic for its “natural” sound quality.
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SHANGHAI, China — Expatriates from Germany marked Oct. 3, German Unity Day, with a celebration at the Hotel Intercontinental Expo here on Oct. 8. The German Consulate sponsored the event, which included a speech by consul general Wolfgang Roehr along with live music. Event sponsor Sennheiser and Real Live provided microphones and two K-array Redline series systems for the event.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — Technical Services Group designed and installed the AV system within a new conference facility at Women’s Hospital here, which specializes in the care of women and infancts. The new audio system includes an Aspen Series digital audio processor from Lectrosonics.
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