SEATTLE — EAW gear was well-represented at Seattle’s Decibel Festival Sept. 27-28, with Hall Audio Systems from Las Vegas using KF740s to overcome the challenging acoustics within the Paramount Theater and new Avalon by EAW gear used within the Neumos rock club for VIP parties.
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KAZAN, Russia — Innovason distributor Imight supported the audio needs for a concert at the Kazan Agriculturalists Palace here with an Eclipse GT digital mixing console from Innovason handling the FOH mix. The concert featured French tenor Roberto Alagna, Bolshoi Theatre soloist Venera Gimadieva and the Tatarstan state symphony orchestra conducted by Alexander Sladkovsky.
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LANCING, U.K. — Flare Audio Ltd announced that it will close its PA rental business, Purple Audio Limited, later this year in a bid to strengthen its focus on the manufacturing side of its business, saying that the new focus could create opportunities for potential rental partners and distributors worldwide.
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LECCE, Italy — Radionorba’s Battiti Live drew audiences of up to 60,000 listeners to towns and cities along the “heel” of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula in late July and early August, including Lecce, Bari, Matera, Bisceglie and Manfredonia. International Sound, a rental company run by Paolo Firulli and his brothers, provided K-array gear, not just for sound quality, but to meet the touring event’s challenging logistics.
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CLOVIS, NM — Clovis High School needed to replace the outdated, weather-damaged audio system at its 1,500-capacity outdoor stadium. Wes-Tex Audio Electronics provided a solution in the form of a Turnkey PA system from Technomad. The new system includes four Technomad Berlin weatherproof loudspeakers, a pre-wired amplifier, a dynamic hard-wired microphone and a six-channel mixer with front-panel iPod/mp3 inputs.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Mastro’s steak and seafood house recently renovated the third floor of its North Canon Drive location here. Known as Mastro’s Penthouse, the upscale environs have been enhanced with an audio installation that includes Ashly Audio amplifiers with integrated Protea DSP processing by AV integrators Clean Media.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Joan And Sanford I. Weill Hall, at Sonoma State University’s Donald and Maureen Green Music Center, opened in late September with a piano recital by Lang Lang. The 1,400-seat concert hall’s rear wall can be opened to provide viewing and listening from outdoor lawn seating for about 5,000 additional patrons. Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided acoustic and theatrical consulting services for the project.
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DOUAI, France — For the 2012 edition of a long-running annual fair held within the Gayant Expo here in early September, Polygone Equipement provided an RCF TTL-33A line array system. The series of concerts, held over a 10-day span, included a performance by Italy’s Umberto Tozzi.
Read More »ATLANTA – Roland Systems Group will hold an interactive V-Mixing training course at the Sanctuary Church here on Oct. 23 from 1 pm to 9 pm.
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LAKELAND, FL — As its name indicates, the First Baptist Church at the Mall has taken over a former shopping mall and can now accommodate nearly 2,500 congregants. The live sound setup now also includes a Studer Vista 5 M2, which the church uses for both front-of-house and monitor mixing.
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SEATTLE — Announcing an expansion in its sales division, Symetrix has promoted Tim Murray, pictured here, and Mark Ullrich, pictured below, to new sales positions. Murray, former regional sales manager, West will serve as director of sales, US and Canada. Ullrich, former senior technical sales engineer, is now international sales manager. Both report to Symetrix CEO Paul Roberts.
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NEW YORK — For a corporate AV installation project that included a large multi-purpose meeting space along with 60 smaller conference rooms, Video Sonics CEO and founder Glenn Polly relied upon iLive gear from Allen & Heath. He noted that the ability to separate the I/O unit and the control surface “solved a lot of problems for my client.”
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