TUCKER, GA – DW Services Group has been using Aviom personal mixers to help reduce stage volume and improve spoken word intelligibility at houses of worship services and events across the U.S.
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MINNEAPOLIS – Audio Logic Systems (ALS), which recently celebrated a 20th anniversary milestone with music, food and drinks at their Minneapolis headquarters, also took on the production for a major concert event for fDeluxe – a new name for four reunited members of The Family – at the Loring Theater. ALS provided DiGiCo consoles and d&b audiotechnik gear.
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BERKELEY, CA – Meyer Sound named Miles Rogers EXP applications development manager for its Berkeley-based EXP cinema technologies division.
Read More »OREM, UT – Flex Rental Solutions, makers of rental and production management software, is staging an online preview of Flex 4.4. The online event is open to existing customers and potential users. It is set for Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 9 am MST. The company's Chris Stein and Jeffrey Payne will be demonstrating the product and responding to questions about the changes.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR – Audinate and South Korea-based Inter-M have agreed to collaborate to produce a line of products that will feature Dante, Audinate's IP over Ethernet media networking technology. Inter-M makes commercial sound and professional audio products including consoles, speakers, wireless systems and microphones.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – JL Sound Company founder Jamin Lynch recently provided audio support for a performance by the band, The Middle Of The Road, at the Brewster Street Ice House here. It's typical of the gigs in "cozy" environs that he mixes, and he credited his recently-acquired Soundcraft Si Compact 24 console as well-suited to those gigs.
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SINGAPORE – Consolidated Audio Networks provided vocal reinforcement for the month-long A Cappella Festival in Singapore, including a Turbosound loudspeaker system consisting of NuQ-15, NuQ-12 speakers and Milan M18 powered subwoofers.
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JOPLIN, MO – The Music Aid for Joplin auction, set up by Orange Amplification, has raised $10,000 to help Dave Peterson, owner of the Glory Days Music Store, following its destruction in a devastating tornado last May.
Read More »There are many "pro-sumers" still using old 700 MHz wireless microphones even though it's been illegal for 18 months. Their attitude is: "If my mics still work, who's going to come along and stop me?" Like using Propofol for a sleep aid, it's fine until someone gets hurt. New 700 MHz services haven't activated many places, and when they are, they won't immediately affect every TV channel. But when they hit, 700 MHz mics will be "squashed like a bug," as Shure's Tim Vear says. And fined like a rock star.
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The Audio Engineering Society met Oct. 21-23 at New York City's I.M. Pei-designed Javits Center for the 131st AES Convention. Though MTA construction proved an eyesore, if not an inconvenience, it will extend the #7 IRT Flushing Line, providing Grand Central and Times Square commuters subway access to Javits, by 2012.
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By the time Ed Wannebo took the stage at the end of the evening to accept the Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award, it was already an entertaining evening filled with surprises. Then Kenny Chesney walked out on stage. A true man crush ensued.
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Broadway musical The Book of Mormon was conceived in 2003 while South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were meeting with friend and producer Scott Rudin (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) in Manhattan. Noting the similarity between Team America's marionettes and Avenue Q's puppets, Rudin suggested they see Robert Lopez' Broadway musical. Afterwards they discovered a shared interest in both musical theater and Mormonism. After years of collaboration and workshops, they went straight to Broadway, with rehearsals and previews each lasting less than a month before opening March 24 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on 49th Street.
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