JONESBORO, AR – After 79 years of ministry, Central Baptist Church, with a permanent location here that seats about 2,500 church members, is branching out. Journey Campus is the name of a portable church serving Arkansas State University (ASU), and EliteMultimedia included an Aviom Pro64 in the portable church's system design.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Lee Minich, president of Lab X Technologies, will present a seminar at the annual LLB Expo on May 18 covering the emergence of 802.1 IEEE Audio Video Bridging (AVB) as a new standard in networking. The seminar will take place from 2-4 p.m. at Stockholm International Fairs during the expo, which covers audio, lighting, video and media technology.
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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, OH – Eighth Day Sound recently added 20 of the new DiGiCo SD racks with 192, 96 or 48KHz sampling rates to its touring inventory. The new gear is supporting Lil Wayne's I Am Music II tour.
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LONDON – Eliza Doolittle FOH engineer John Delf is using Midas' new analog console with FireWire interface, the so-called "digilog" VeniceF, to support the artist's current performances. The desk is one of the first off of the U.K. production line, and Delf, who had seen one during a PRO6 training day at Midas, snapped it up for his own use.
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Kaltman Creations' Invisible Waves X (IWX) expands on the Invisible Waves RF Spectrum Analyzer with new features including UFO Alert (Unidentified Frequency Objects) to warn of rogue interference; Click to Listen (listen-in to all RF space); RF Coordinator (to identify usable open RF space); RF Congestion Scale (to gauge the severity of local RF); RF Level Alert (to warn when any cataloged signals fall below assigned thresholds); an RF Event/Alarm Recorder and Logger; and insta-save and recall custom profiles and screen images.
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OXNARD, CA – Rat Sound is providing sound reinforcement for the current leg of Prince's "Welcome 2 America" tour. The system consists of six hangs of 10 L-Acoustics K1 in the round with 42 dV-DOSC and 40 SB28 subs powered by L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers, and engineers Majid Malki and Fred Lucas are using an analog Midas Heritage 3000 console.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Allen & Heath's Brazilian distributor, Libor, helped André Zampieri, art and musical director for the nearly 30-year-old band Santa Maria, make the digital leap with an iLive-T112 Control Surface and iDR-48 MixRack at FOH.
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LONDON – Entec Sound moved into London's Royal Albert Hall for the seven-day run of 2011 Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) shows, which kicked off with a comedy night on the Monday followed by a mix of music for the rest of the week including headliners Squeeze, Biffy Clyro, Roger Daltrey, Beady Eye, The Editors and Tiny Tempah.
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MUMBAI, India – The 2011 Cricket World Cup final April 2 at Wankhede Stadium wasn't just between cricket players representing India and Sri Lanka. From the perspective of Mumbai-based E2 Tech, it was also between the 24 Turbosound Flex Array loudspeakers they provided and as many as 40,000 cheering, vuvuzela-ing fans.
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HOUSTON – Lon Brannies, a 39-year audio industry veteran who spent 27 years with Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc., passed away April 18 after a long illness.
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LAS VEGAS – Timeless Communications, Corp. owners of ProAudioSpace.com, FRONT of HOUSE magazine, the Event Production Directory and producers of the Parnelli Awards is pleased to announce as of April 25, longtime audio practitioner, touring monitor mixer and live sound engineer Mark Frink will take the helm as editor of FRONT of HOUSE and chief moderator on the ProAudioSpace.com website.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – Aphex added pro audio veteran Charles Boehm to its engineering staff. Boehm joins Aphex after many years as hardware design engineer for Avid Technology's M-Audio division, where he was responsible for heading up design teams behind such products as their Prokeys88 and DCP-200 digital pianos, GSR studio monitors and Midisport USB MIDI interfaces.
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