AMHERST, MA — Located on the University of Massachusetts-Amherst campus, the William D. Mullins Memorial Center Arena is home of the Minutemen basketball and ice hockey and Minutewomen basketball teams, as well as hosting concerts and other events. The 10,500-seat venue recently replaced its 20-year-old installed PA with a new QSC Audio ILA System.
Read More »BERKELEY, CA and ESCONDIDO, CA — Meyer Sound and VUE Audiotechnik have settled a lawsuit that Meyer filed last June against VUE. Meyer Sound issued a brief press release on the matter; a link appears below. In response, VUE Audiotechnik provided a link to an open letter posted by VUE’s Jim Sides on the matter; that link also appears below.
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LONDON — GHB Hire provided a Void Arcline 12 system for Boy Better Now, one of the contenders in the Red Bull Culture Clash, which was recently held on four stages within Wembley Arena. Boy Better Now took top honors in the competition, generating the loudest reaction from the crowd.
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BASEL, Switzerland — Monitor Sound engineer Mark Portlock specified a Midas PRO1 console for Afro beat and Blufunk artist Keziah Jones’s recent central European tour, noting its good fit with the needs of the tour, with performances in Brussels, Geneva and Basel.
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RALEIGH, NC — RMB Audio has provided audio for the J.S. Dorton Arena at the North Carolina State Fair for 21 years, and even though they’ve used Martin Audio throughout that time, this year marked their first deployment of the MLA Compact system. Dorton Arena is the venue for evening performance concerts held during the State Fair with performers such as Michael W. Smith, Brian McKnight, local hero and American Idol Winner Scotty McCreery and other artists over 11 nights.
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BRISTOL, U.K. — Creative Youth Network hired Stage Electrics to update the audio system at The Station, a former fire station that had been previously converted for use as a café bar and nightclub. The new audio system includes speakers from RCF’s Acustica line of gear.
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PARIS — Sennheiser France is now distributing Innovason products in France. Sennheiser France is also bringing on board Axel Brisard, who has experience in digital audio mixing and sound capture. The moves are intended to further strengthen Sennheiser France’s presence in the live digital technologies market and take advantage of existing synergies between Innovason’s digital consoles and Sennheiser and Neumann digital mics.
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KV2 Audio’s new SL Series loudspeakers combine an eye-catching, slim, stylish cabinet design together with excellent audio performance. Less than 12 inches deep, the system dramatically reduces the amount of floor space typically required for such high-volume, full spectrum sound. This makes the system ideal for tight theatre, placement club installs or discrete house of worship environments. The SL412 and SL2.15 can be integrated either externally through simple wall mounting, suspension, ground stacking, or internally into walls and surfaces. They can be supplied with custom colors, grill templates and logos, offering a flexible and true designer-integrated system. A single yoke assembly with multiple fixed angle and fixing locations, provides a quick and cost-effective solution for simple suspension options.
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LONDON — Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour recently crossed the Atlantic for a series of shows in the U.K. and Europe. Engineers Renato Petruzziello (with 140 channels at monitors) and Martin Paré (with 166 inputs at FOH) are both using DiGiCo SD7s to mix the show.
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SINSINAWA, WI — Lifeline Audio Video Technologies, tasked with improving the intelligibility of the spoken word and piano-focused services within the 800-seat crown chapel built here at the home of the Congregation of Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters in 1964, opted to flank the altar with a pair of Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC24-R arrays.
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LOS ANGELES — Masque Sound is supporting the touring production of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon with audio gear including an L-Acoustics KARA system. Sound designer Brian Ronan, who specified the gear, is getting an on-the-road assist from touring engineers Cody Spencer and Christopher Sloan. The KARA setup has varied for different performance spaces, and Ronan credited the KARA gear for its help in overcoming unique architectural challenges.
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NEW YORK — Firehouse Productions provided Harman gear for the Global Citizen Festival staged in Central Park Sept. 29, including JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers. The free awareness-raising event, which drew close to 60,000, featured performances by The Black Keys, Foo Fighters, Neil Young and Crazy Horse and others.
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