WOODLAND HILLS, CA – American Music & Sound named Chris Cairns marketing director. Cairns, a drummer/writer/producer who has also worked in live sound reinforcement, brings more than 20 years of experience as a vendor to companies including Young Chang, Kurzweil and Kawai Piano.
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Earthworks' WL40V Wireless Vocal Microphone Capsule is the company's first wireless product. It has been adapted in wireless capsule form from the SR40V Vocal Microphone released earlier this year. Like its wired counterpart, the WL40V promises a vocal sound that requires little to no EQ, with a hypercardioid polar pattern and extended flat frequency response that have been designed for a natural on- and off-axis performance coupled with clarity and detail.
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ST. CLOUD, MN – Farber Sound provided Harman's JBL VRX Constant Curvature arrays along with a Soundcraft Si3 digital console at front-of-house for the Paramount Theatre. The city of St. Cloud, which owns the venue, rents it to community groups and for professional performances by touring musicians and theatrical groups.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – BAi LLC of Austin, TX recommended Meyer Sound's Constellation acoustic system as a solution for the challenges presented by the physical acoustics at Louisiana State University's 1,100-seat Union Theater. The venue's relatively low roof interfered with the requirements for an extended reverberation time for classical music presentations.
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NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Opera recently hosted Tony Bennett's 85th birthday celebration at its 3,800-seat venue in New York's Lincoln Center, with guest artists including Elton John, Aretha Franklin and Alejandro Sanz. ACIR Professional (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) provided audio support.
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NEW YORK – Citing the significant (and growing) percentage of convention visitors who use iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, or Android devices, to stay informed and organized, AES has launched apps to provide them with information about the 131st AES convention that they can retrieve while on the go. The convention is set to take place at Jacob Javits Convention Center Oct. 20-23.
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CAMBRIDGE, New Zealand – The 600-capacity auditorium at St. Peter's School has been equipped with an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system that includes an iDR-32 MixRack with iLive-T112 Control Surface. Before the upgrade, the school had been using an analog mixer.
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STOW, OH – Selena Gomez has become an endorser of Audio-Technica gear. The 19-year-old performer is now using the Audio-Technica AEW-T3300a handheld transmitter with the A-T 5000 Series UHF Wireless System.
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LAS VEGAS – Celine Dion, who returned to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in mid-March for a three-year residency with close to 70 performances scheduled per year, has been using a Neumann KK 104 S cardioid capsule coupled with a Sennheiser SKM 5200 II handheld transmitter. The audio crew is also using Sennheiser SKM 2000 XP wireless series with MME 865 capsules for backup singers and Sennheiser and Neumann gear for drums.
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers named Thomas Mittelmann director of business development, Asia-Pacific. Mittelmann, who most recently worked with Powersoft, has also spent years with Lab.gruppen developing sales in Asia; his position there prompted his relocation from Germany to Singapore in 2007. Prior to that, he had spent eight years with Community, handling the company's European sales.
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LONDON – Presentation Rentals Ltd. (PR) now offers a complete d&b audiotechnik sound system – including d&b T10s and B4s – with a white finish. The gear is particularly well-suited to small to medium events where black-finished speakers would pose aesthetic concerns. Examples include art gallery events and gatherings staged aboard ships.
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FERMO, Italy – For the 2011 racing season's final two-day Grand Prix, held on the Motocross World Championships race course here, Bebo Service provided dBTechnologies' DVA T12 loudspeakers and DVA S20 subwoofers. The clusters of gear were suspended by cranes at the event. The race track covers an area measuring about 500 by 400 meters.
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