INDIO, CA – Some 200,000 made the trek to the three-day 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and many more would have attended if the event wasn't sold out. The good news for the many sound professionals hoping to work at the event next year is that the festival will be staged over two consecutive weekends.
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NASHVILLE – For country songwriter Luke Bryan's Emotional Traffic Tour, which opens for Tim McGraw, production manager/FOH mixer Pete Healey and monitor mixer Ed Janiszewski opted for DiGiCo SD8 consoles for the Clair Global-supported tour, with an SD8-24 at FOH and SD8-36 for monitors plus two DiGiRacks.
Read More »GRENOBLE, France – Digital and networked audio specialist Digigram announced an OEM deal with Innovason for their AQONDA EtherSound stagebox. Innovason has released their own version of the 16-in/16-out version called the SR-16.
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NEW YORK – This year's Drama Desk Awards, held May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center, may have been a little less dramatic than most, as far as the top awards for sound design for a musical and play were concerned. The sound design winners for top musical and play, respectively – Brian Ronan and Acme Sound Partners/Cricket S. Myers – were the odds-on favorites with two awards nominations each.
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MISSION, TX – Palm Valley Church recently hired Mankin Media Systems (MMS) of Franklin, TN to design and build a new facility to replace their 600-seat auditorium with a new 2,500-seat auditorium.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL – Allen & Heath's MixPad iPad app, launched earlier this year, allows users to control iLive series digital mixers over WiFi. At First Baptist Church, the app is also being used for personal monitor mixing.
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The new MARS P-2532 from Gear Box Pro is a new range plug power distribution solution for AV, DJ and live sound applications. It remotely connects to the users' rack PDUs to generators and to hotel and banquet halls equipped with 50A range receptacles.
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NEW ORLEANS – Spanning seven days, a dozen stages, and drawing a total audience of about 400,000, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is one of the largest live music events in the world. Metairie, LA-based The Sound Source supported two of the stages with JBL VerTec VT4886 subcompact line array elements.
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TEMPE, AZ – A new nightclub, 910 Live, is close to Arizona State University and neighboring Tempe Town Lake, with a stage where, under previous ownership, bands like Weezer, Modest Mouse, Jimmy Eat World and The Specials have performed.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, CA – Harman JBL Synthesis is offering training and certification programs for its ARCOS Adaptive Room Correction and Optimization System, an integrated software and hardware package for setting up a JBL Synthesis complete multichannel audio system.
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SINGAPORE – Symetrix named Hock Thang to a newly-created post, Technical Sales Engineer for Asia. Thang will handle pre- and post-sales technical support for all Symetrix products and support Symetrix' Asian distributors with product training on a regular basis. Thang can be reached at: asiasupport [at] symetrix.co
Read More »ROCHESTER, NY – Lab X Technologies announced that the first shipments of its Titanium 411 1GB Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Ethernet Switch have been delivered to AV manufacturers around the world. Supporting IEEE 802.1 Ethernet AVB, the switch can be used for installed and live sound, including networked line arrays and speaker clusters, remote-networked equipment and on-stage, and FOH applications, among others.
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