NEW YORK – Lou Mannarino of NY-based L&M Sound & Light recently used K-array's new KR400S for a performance by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Marvin Hamlisch at New York's Avery Fisher Hall, part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The performance featured guest vocalist Idina Menzel.
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TULSA, OK – When The Joint, a 2,700-seat showroom at Tulsa's Hard Rock Hotel and Casino opened in 2010, it was equipped with a house audio system based around Meyer Sound's MICA line array loudspeakers. These arrays were hoisted on chain motors, because management wanted to offer touring acts the option of flying their own systems. In The Joint's first six months of operation, however, the MICAs have never budged.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Renkus-Heinz demoed the IC2 (IC Squared) high powered, medium format digitally steerable loudspeaker system at Pro Light+Sound, featuring the system in 12 public demonstration sessions and a live demo.
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VEJLE, Denmark – Nordic Rentals of Denmark has become an L-Acoustics K1/KUDO/KARA Rental Network Agent. The company recently purchased 48 K1, 36 KUDO and 36 KARA WST line source cabinets, with 24 K1-SB, 40 SB28 and 12 SB18 subwoofers. The system, supplied by L-Acoustics' Danish distributor, Moto Audio Sales, includes LA8 amplified controllers in LA-RAKs with LA-AES3 cards.
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NEW YORK – In his role as senior audio engineer for the NBA, 40-year audio industry veteran Jonathan Freed's job is to make sure that what the camera sees during basketball games, the viewer can hear – as long as the background audio doesn't distract viewers too much from what the announcers are saying.
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BURNSVILLE, MN – Bosch Security Systems, Inc., Communications Systems Division announced that Phillip Scobee has joined Electro-Voice as product manager, Electro-Voice Concert Sound. Scobee, known for his work with such artists as Kenny Chesney and Sugarland, brings his experience as an end-user to his new position, where he will be responsible for both new and existing Electro-Voice concert product lines.
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D.A.S. Audio introduced the Convert 15A multi-function arrayable loudspeaker system, pictured here, and the Convert 12A curved source array unit at ProLight + Sound 2011.
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LONDON – With 80 candles on your cake, you're entitled to a lot of wishes. How about having Sharon Stone and Kevin Spacey host a charity concert at Royal Albert Hall featuring musical guests Bryan Ferry, Shirley Bassey, Katherine Jenkins, the Scorpions, Paul Anka, The London Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Valery, Gergiev Bolshoi and Mariinsky Soloists, the Igor Krutoi Turetsky Choir, Andrey Gavrilov, among others?
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Aqua Sounds supported two major events in Tanzania's largest city with Proel Axiom gear. The events included festivities surrounding the East Africa Football Cup and a major corporate event sponsored by mobile telephone company Bharti Airtel.
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GAINESVILLE, GA – Danley Sound Labs named Chad Edwardson to its engineering and system design staff. He will assist clients with product selection and application details and will work with the Danley R&D team on new product development.
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BOSTON – To commemorate 150 years since its charter was signed, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) staged its Next Century Convocation at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The event organizers called upon Northeast Media (Woburn, MA), which used a Harman JBL VerTec line array system for audio support.
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MEMPHIS, TN – Dave Woolworth of Oxford, MS-based Oxford Acoustics used the Iconyx IC Live digitally steerable array from Renkus-Heinz to meet the sound design goals the auditorium at White Station High School, which has a low ceiling and parallel walls and serves 2,300 students.
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