MIAMI — Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound Company that supplies and supports wireless systems for live and broadcast events, has been providing wireless solutions and gear onsite at the Billboard Latin Music Awards for the past 13 years. The 2012 event took place at BankUnited Center here recently.
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WASHINGTON, DC — It wasn’t your typical Sunday House of Worship assembly. In this case, the “house” was 41,487-seat Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals. The minister was Joel Osteen, and the program, Joel Osteen Ministries America’s Night of Hope 2012, included musical presentations along with inspirational speeches. (Also, the event had been scheduled for a Saturday, but got postponed by a day due to inclement weather.) Special Event Services (SES) supported the event with Outline Grand Touring Outline (GTO) line array speakers.
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IRVINE CA — At this year’s KROQ Weenie Roast Y Fiesta, attendees gathered for both a 20th Anniversary musical celebration and a tribute to the Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch, who passed away from cancer the day before the show. Delicate Productions, also marking 20 years of audio support for the event, upped the ante with their new Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker (MLA) system, appearing for the first time at the Roast.
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FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Renkus-Heinz added Alejandro Fidalgo to the company’s expanding engineering team. Prior to Renkus-Heinz, Fidalo was with Isaac Daniel Group in Burbank, CA, where he worked on audio-related video-on-demand technologies. Fidalgo will report to engineering manager Tim Shuttleworth, and will be based out of the company’s headquarters here.
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HONOLULU — Nimitz-class aircraft carriers may look big, but when the cargo includes planes, jets and helicopters, not to mention a nuclear power plant, space is at a premium. For the carrier’s recent seven-day jaunt from Honolulu to San Diego, which treated naval honorees, friends and family members to musical performances in under-deck hangars, Broadcast Support Inc. and Mac West rep Steve McNeil used a DiGiCo SD11 with a full dB Technologies PA rig.
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PRAGUE — Czech rental company T Servis has purchased additional L-Acoustics K1 WST line source enclosures from local distributor Pro Music, bringing the tally of K1 enclosures in its rental inventory to 64 and its total count of L-Acoustics boxes past the 350 mark. The company has also relocated recently to a new 33,000-square-foot facility that includes a warehouse, a private rehearsal studio, four production offices, two dressing rooms with showers and its own cafeteria.
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PIBRAC, France — Since 1989, the Théâtre Musical de Pibrac (TMP)’s 448-seat amphitheater-style main auditorium has hosted incoming shows and has produced its own, with resident company, Figaro & Co. TMP recently decided to overhaul its distribution network and at the same time upgrade its Harman Soundcraft analog desk to digital, which would be placed on its new Riedel RockNet backbone.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — From June 13-15, InfoComm 2012’s AVnu Alliance Pavilion will include demos from 15 participating companies including Avid, Biamp, Bosch, Harman, Meyer Sound, Riedel, Sennheiser and Yamaha. Visitors can also get info on the AVnu Alliance’s new certification program for industry professionals.
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LAS VEGAS — Recycled Percussion, which holds the distinction of the highest non-vocal finalists ever on America’s Got Talent, is now performing six interactive shows weekly at the Tropicana Las Vegas Theater. The audio gear used to capture all the mayhem includes nearly 60 Audix microphones.
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MUMBAI — Alcons Audio has opened a new office in India, offering customers full factory support. The company plans on operating out of Mumbai and Bangalore initially, with expansion planned to other cities in the near future.
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NEW YORK — Broadway’s Leap of Faith is using 12 Neumann digital microphones in the orchestra pits. Sound designer John Shivers and associate sound designer/mixer David Patridge specified Neumann digital mics on the brass and woodwind sections of the orchestra, which were then fed into a Neumann DMI before reaching the DiGiCo SD7 digital console used for the production.
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GEELONG, Australia – Total Events supplied a Harman audio system for background music, MC and umpires at the Geelong Lawn Tennis Club stands for the recent Davis Cup tennis tournament in Australia. The main challenge was keeping a minimal layout without obscuring sightlines. The company’s JBL VRX Constant Curvature loudspeakers proved well-suited to the task.
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