ALBUQUERQUE, NM — For nearly 60 years Milne Stadium has been home to generations of Albuquerque’s local sporting events. Recently the 6,500-seat arena received a wide-ranging makeover, including a new playing surface, new paint and stucco and a new audio system featuring Community R-Series loudspeakers.
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Allen & Heath’s iLive OneMix is designed to give musicians wireless control of their personal monitor mix. Derived from the iLive MixPad app, OneMix locks control to a single Aux mix, promising instant access to a customized easy-to-use monitor mix environment.
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ATHENS — Turbosound loudspeakers are a key part of the ambience in Athens’s luxury Catwalk Café-Bar. The bar, situated near the seafront in Greece’s capital, invited local suppliers Metro Audio Systems to install 10 Impact65T two-way loudspeakers and two TSB-110 sub-bass speakers.
Read More »CHESTERTON, IN — Music Group announced that Starin Distribution, based here, is now distributing Turbosound products in the U.S. Separately, Sean Martin was named head of international sales for the Turbosound brand, which Music Group acquired earlier this year. Martin is rejoining Turbosound, having worked there in the 1990s. He takes over for outgoing sales director Dominic Harter, who recently rejoined Harman as head of global sales for Soundcraft.
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BERNAY-VILBERT, France — Renkus-Heinz named SoundCo as its distributor for France and non-exclusive distributor for Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in north Africa. SoundCo maintains offices in this suburb of Paris and works with a team of sales agents based in other parts of the country.
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NAPERVILLE, IL — For a recent Andy Grammer concert within North Central Illinois College’s 825-seat Wentz Concert Hall here, Frankfort, IL-based Sound Works Productions provided a NEXO GEO S12 system that included 10 GEO S1210s, four RS18 Ray Subs, four PS10s and three 4×4 NXAMPs along with three RS18s for sidefills/drum subs, two 4×4 NXAMPs and a Yamaha M7CL digital console for monitors.
Read More »NILES, IL — To help its end users deal with issues ranging from frequency coordination, software configuration, and interoperability between different brands of equipment, Shure launched a new Systems Support Group. It is led by manager Gino Sigismondi and includes Doug Totel and Tim Vear. Shure also named Luis Guerra product marketing manager for conferencing products to support the company’s rollout of DIS-branded conferencing products.
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BREA, CA — Trinity Sound Company (TSC) recently completed an upgrade to the in-house music playback and paging system at Brea Community Center that included a QSC Q-Sys Core 250i processor and two additional CX Series multichannel amplifiers. The new, lower-cost DSP system controls multi-zone paging and playback.
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LOS ANGELES — FOH engineer Jeff Peterson is using one of DiGiCo’s recently-released SD5 consoles for X Factor, now in its second year in the U.S. Monitor mixer Jason Batuyong is using an SD10, and the crew has also incorporated a pair of SDRacks connected via an Optocore fiber optics network into the sound setup for the show.
Read More »PARTRIDGE GREEN, U.K. — Sean Martin was named head of international sales for Turbosound. He will take over for outgoing sales director Dominic Harter, who spent nearly 10 years with the brand, which was acquired earlier this year by Music Group. Martin, with more than 30 years experience, is returning to the brand, having previously worked for Turbosound over a four-year span in the late 1990s. Harter rejoined Harman as head of global sales for Soundcraft.
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Innovason, which previewed its Pandora digital panning algorithm at Prolight + Sound 2012, recently announced its availability via NOVA 2.4.0, which can be downloaded for use with Innovason Eclipse and Eclipse GT consoles from innovason.com.
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CHICAGO — Encompass Technologies recently completed a major sound and video installation that included a Martin Audio sound system for a sizeable new restaurant/sports bar/nightclub, John Barleycorn River North, which is located in downtown Chicago.
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