INDIANAPOLIS – ATK Audiotek, which supported the Super Bowl Halftime Show for the 15th year straight, once again deployed its custom-designed cart system with Harman’s JBL VerTec line arrays. It was the most-watched Super Bowl in history, seen by an estimated 111.3 million people.
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FORT WAYNE, IN — Sweetwater recently hired two new senior category managers for its recently-reorganized Merchandising department: Jon Croft, senior category manager for Guitars and Drums, and Matt Duncan, senior category manager for Amps, Pedals and Effects.
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POWAY, CA — AMT Systems Inc., which designed and installed the new audio system for St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church, needed to deal with visually distinctive yet reverberant architectural features including a domed wood and aluminum barreled ceiling, unfinished wood pews and a polished concrete floor surrounded by a drywall interior.
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ROCHESTER, NY — CMI Communications, an AV rental and production facility that works with a variety of corporate clients, recently purchased Soundcraft Si Compact 16 and Si Compact 24 models. The new gear adds to the company’s Soundcraft inventory which includes Vi1 and Vi6 consoles.
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OSLO, Norway — Oslo Audio (www.osloaudio.no) has become the first rental company in Norway to invest in an L-Acoustics KARA WST line source system, ordering 24 cabinets from local distributor, Scandec Systemer (www.scandecsystemer.no). The system is powered by L-Acoustics LA-RAK amplified controllers and supplemented with SB18 subwoofers.
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Middle Atlantic Products’s HRF Series Half Rack family of products, which are designed to help develop an ECIA standard for the half-width rack format, offer users a low profile design and compact dimensions. An offset cable tie area keeps their overall width to 10 5/8”, which will help operators conserve rack space in confined areas. These dimensions also allow the HRF Series to be used with half rack equipment from a variety of manufacturers.
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BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound has announced promotions for two of its Design Services team members. Todd Meier (pictured here), formerly director of Design Services, has been promoted to Digital Products Manager, a new position. Michael Creason, who had served as a Design Services Associate since 2008, is taking over duties for Meier as Design Services Manager.
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NOVI SAD, Serbia – Harman distributor Studio Berar provided gear to support the recent NS Koncert Godine 2011 (Serbia’s NS Concert of the Year), which drew 9,500 to the Great Hall of the Sport & Business Centre Vojvodina (aka SPENS). The speaker setup included Harman JBL VerTec VT4880 loudspeakers, VT4880 subwoofers, VT4889s for outfills and VT4888 for infills, with Harman processing and Soundcraft consoles for control.
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SPRING HILL, FL — Working with GC Pro affiliate Christian Sound Installations, Guitar Center Professional tackled the intelligibility issues brought about by a six-second reverb time in the main hall of the mosque at the Islamic Center of Hernando County here. Acoustical treatments and a Bose Panaray MA12EX system cut the reverb time in half.
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DORTMUND, Germany — For the 28,000 visitors at the recent ADAC Supercross motocross event here, larger-than-life video screens helped bridge the visual distance between the crowd and the competitors. That distance had to be spanned via audio as well — above the roar of the dirt bikes. D.A.S. Audio loudspeakers, powered by Lab.gruppen amps and governed with Lake processing, went the distance.
Read More »ABU DHABI, UAE — Brittania Row’s audio support for the UAE’s 40th National Day celebration, held in the round at Zayed Sports Stadium, included eight hangs of L-Acoustics KUDO, SB218, V-DOSC, dV-DOSC, 108XTs, KIVA, KILO and other distributed speakers, all controlled by 17 Lake LM26 processors, three Yamaha DME processors, six XTA Breakout Boxes and linked via a dual redundant fiber-optic IP network. The Lake LM26 processors, which provided crossovers, EQ and time alignment, were all connected by Audinate’s Dante networking technology.
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LOS ANGELES — A 3.5-hour marathon of sorrow and triumph, the 54th Grammy Awards, broadcast live Feb. 12 from Staples Center, seen by 39 million and discussed by millions more on social networks, was astonishing, fresh and poignant — and flawless audio support was more crucial than ever. Audio for the succession of separate mini-productions was provided by ATK AudioTek and FOH engineers Ron Reaves and Mikael Stewart, with important assists from gear manufacturers including Audio-Technica, Sennheiser and Shure.
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