MOSCOW — NAMM and Messe Frankfurt announced that dozens of manufacturers and distributors of major music product brands have confirmed exhibit space and attendance at the two new international music product trade shows being held here: NAMM Musikmesse Russia and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia. The shows will be held for the first time at Moscow’s Expo Centre May 16-19, 2012.
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HOUSTON — After the Houston Astros stunned the Chicago Cubs with a come-behind victory, the players’ enthusiasm spilled over — and so did the contents of a large beverage cooler, onto Brian Bogusevic, the player with the game-winning hit, along with a nearby sports announcer and his handheld microphone.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Judas Priest has embarked on what the band is calling its final world tour, with abundant support from Meyer Sound equipment and supplier Major Tom Limited. Judas Priest’s Epitaph tour has included Europe, South America, Mexico, and 35 stops in Canada and the US (wrapping up December 3 in Biloxi, Miss.). The next stop is Japan in early 2012.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA – For some, music is an escape from reality. For others, it provides a road back to reality. For Gabriel The Gun, it’s been both. Co-founder of the ska-pop band No Doubt with star Gwen Stefani, Gabriel has been through his share of adventures. To tell his story, Gabriel relies on Harman’s JBL EON515XT portable PA loudspeakers while traveling to Los Angeles school districts with the hopes of steering students from the dangers of a lifestyle he was lucky to survive.
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MUMBAI, India — Narain Pro Audio & Lighting Pvt Ltd provided Turbosound speakers for Hometown Café, opened recently by the China Gate restaurant group. The setup on the lower indoor level includes six Impact55T speakers and two TCX-15B subwoofers, powered, respectively, by NX Audio’s MT-601 MK2 and MT 800-MK2 amplifiers. For the open-air terrace, there is another six Impact55Ts and one more TCX-15B subwoofer.
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FRUTIGEN, Switzerland – The FMG “Ekklesia Movement” free church in updated its technical infrastructure with the purchase of a Soundcraft Vi1 digital desk. With a strong emphasis on youth work, the church is no stranger to Soundcraft’s signature sound and design ergonomic.
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KANSAS CITY, MO — Following a demo of a Meyer Sound M’elodie line array loudspeaker system during its annual Christmas concerts, Evangel Church’s members invested in a nearly identical Meyer Sound system, designed and commissioned by Greg Slape of Special Event Services in Winston-Salem, N.C. “We immediately fell in love with the Meyer system,” says Tim Murlatt, the church’s business administrator, about the first demo. “It was a spectacular sound we had never heard before in that space.”
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OSLO — FOH engineer and Midas analog fan Eddie Mapp is using a Midas PRO9 live audio system, supplied by Clair Brothers, for the European leg of the band’s world tour.
Read More »BELGRADE, Serbia — dBTechnologies named Sky Corporation as its distributor in Serbia. “I’m very impressed by Sky Corporation,” said dBTechnologies sales area manager Gianluca Dalessandro, who closed the deal. “They handle everything from rental to retail, organize events, logistics and are able to offer every kind of service to meet all needs.”
Read More »CONCORD, CA — D-Tools, Inc. announced that AV product manufacturer SnapAV renewed its D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) program Partnership. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, SnapAV makes close to 1,000 custom AV products for customers in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Their product data within the D-Tools database was updated recently to help users specify products for end user customers.
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Budd Johnson (1942-2011), a prominent figure in home audio recording in the late 1960s to early 1970s, passed away earlier this year. NAMM reports that… Read More »In Memoriam: Budd Johnson, 1942-2011
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NEW YORK — The 2011 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, held Nov. 30, was a full-scale production with performances by Justin Bieber, Tony Bennett, Cee Lo Green, Michael Bublé, Neil Diamond, Carole King, Katharine McPhee, Javier Colon (NBC’s “The Voice”) and Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush. Production Resource Group (PRG) once again provided the audio system. It included JBL VerTec VT4887 compact line array elements and VT4881 compact arrayable subwoofers. NBC also hired Wireless First, a Clair Global Company, for 86 channels of wireless RF that spanned a full city block and featured the company’s new CF 1090 Fractal Antenna.
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