GATESHEAD, U.K. – The Sage Gateshead, a center for musical education, performances and conferences, has installed a Midas PRO9 live performance system at its FOH position in the main auditorium.
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SYDNEY, Australia – Currently playing at the Lyric Theater, the musical Hairspray features an audio design by Michael Waters for Jands Production Services that includes the use of 26 Shure UHF-R Micro Bodypack Transmitters (UR1M) and Shure UR4D Dual Receivers.
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TURIN, Italy – The recently-opened, 41,000-seat Juventus soccer stadium has been equipped with RCF loudspeakers, provided by RCF’s commercial audio department, which was also involved with the audio design for other buildings in the sports complex.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM – David Felberg, violinist and concert master for the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, is using a Lectrosonics UM400 transmitter, an R400A receiver and a customized MI33A instrument cable to help him overcome the challenges of fitting into live mixes seamlessly.
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JERSEY, PA – Stage 2 Productions, which manages production of the annual Jersey festival, Grassroots, used Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing consoles throughout the site, including iDR10, iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks with iLive-176, iLive-T112 and iLive-R72 control surfaces. The artist lineup for the festival included Arrested Development, Easy Star All-stars, Ben Howard and Seasick Steve.
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BERKELEY, CA – Meyer Sound's MILO loudspeakers toured the U.S. with Slightly Stoopid for the band's Seedless Summer Tour. Rainbow Production Services from Hampstead, NH provided the system. The setup included 24 MILO line array loudspeakers and 18 700-HP subwoofers for front of house, with two MICA line array loudspeakers over one 700-HP per side for side fills. Six UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers were used for front-fill, six MJF-212A stage monitors and one more 700-HP subwoofer for drums.
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LONDON – PLASA 2011 got underway Sept. 11 with its perennial focus on the latest new gear. Highlights included Midas' PRO2/PRO2C, Lake's LM 44 digital audio system processor and Lab.gruppen's E Series amplifiers. Also drawing interest were Outline's GTO-DF, JoeCo's BlackBox BBR64-MADI Recorder and Allen & Heath's Waves SoundGrid interface for iLive, among many other new gear offerings. The show runs through Sept. 14.
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LONDON – Allen & Heath has chosen PLASA 2011 to launch a Waves SoundGrid option module for the iLive digital mixing Series, which provides a low latency 64 channel bi-directional interface to SoundGrid. The new M-Waves module opens up the opportunity to use Waves' acclaimed SoundGrid plug-in processing and concurrent multi-track playback and recording.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – The SAE Institute has installed a 36-channel Audient ASP8024 inline desk at its Rotterdam school.
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BOZEMAN, MT – Montana State University's Bobcats football team is playing in a renovated stadium this year. Some 5,200 additional fans can see each game – a total capacity to 17,200. Steven Shewlakow, lead designer at Michael Garrison Associates (MGA), opted for a single Danley Sound Labs Jericho Horn JH-90, which throws audio some 400 feet from its position on the stadium's new scoreboard.
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CURITIBA, Brazil – Located in southern Brazil, the Central Adventist Church of Curitiba recently completed a renovation that increased its seating capacity to 2,200 people and added a modern new design for church goers, who are drawn in part by services featuring chorale music and other live performances.
Read More »{mosimage}LONDON, U.K. – Following a sold-out U.S. tour, Glee Live! traveled to the U.K. for a tour that included stops in London and Manchester, and on to Dublin, Ireland. Clair Global provided sound reinforcement at The O2 arenas in London and Dublin, and at Manchester's MEN Arena.
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