FLERO, Italy – Outline s.r.l. named Chris Hinds director of sales for EMEA. He joins Outline after serving for several years as European sales manager at Turbosound. He also has experience running a PA rental company, has hands-on experience in manufacturing, and also provided national brand management for a major U.K. distributor.
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VIENNA, Austria – Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian national public service broadcaster, has added a pair of Harman's Soundcraft Vi1 digital consoles to its inventory. The order was placed with Soundcraft's Austrian distributor Kain Audio by Landesstudio Tirol, one of nine regional studios operating under the ORF umbrella, after carrying out extensive tests against other brands. These will be used for live broadcasting, FOH mixing and recording purposes in the Innsbruck/Tyrol region.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – The 1,000-capacity Off Corso live music venue recently completed a comprehensive sound system upgrade after a long-term leasing deal with the Synco Europe Network.
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PLANTATION, FL – WorxAudio Technologies named DiModica Sales to represent the company in Florida and Puerto Rico. Owner Chuck DiModica has operated the firm since 1993. Prior to that time, he was vice president of the pro audio division at Ron Tunks Sales Inc.
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KINGSTON, RI – North American Theatrix (NAT) determined that Ryan Center, a $54 million, 7,500+ seat multi-purpose arena built in 2002 at the University of Rhode Island, could cost-effectively improve its sound using QSC's Wideline-8 Line Array technology along with QSC ADS52T speakers for the concourse zones, QSC CX series amplifiers, and QSC Q-SYS DSP and Control, with the goal of creating a redundant environment.
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BELGRADE, Serbia – Parni Valjak, founded in 1975 in the former Yugoslavia, capped a tour of Croatia with performances before 44,000 fans attending two shows at the Belgrade Arena in neighboring Serbia. Three different rental companies provided audio gear – Promologistika from Croatia, BBA Agregati from Montenegro and Track-Copy from Hungary. All provided TTL55A loudspeakers and TTS56A subwoofers from RCF.
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SUMTER, SC – Built from 1850 to 1852 on land donated by American Revolutionary War General Thomas Sumter, the Church of the Holy Cross is a National Historic Landmark, and "the speaker system needed to be ‘invisible,'" noted design consultant Adam Dox of Advanced Video Inc., Columbia, SC. To meet both aesthetic and audio requirements, Dox opted for eight Renkus-Heinz TRX 81/9 loudspeakers.
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ORLANDO, FL – St. James Cathedral's recently-completed $10 million renovation was more extensive than most church upgrades. Antonio Aguerrevere, senior director of design and construction services for the diocese of Orlando, suggested that the project might be more accurately describes in terms of being a new build.
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MIAMI – For three Miami-area Salvation Army churches, Dave Armstrong of Ft. Lauderdale, FL-based Sound Planning used Electro-Voice loudspeakers to back up his promise to deliver a sound system that promises to deliver, above all else, intelligibility.
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EDINA, MN – Pinstripes ventured from Chicagoland to the Twin Cities recently, offering a dining experience that includes Italian cooking, diversions ranging from bowling to bocce courts, and banquet and party space for up to 600 guests. For the Minnesota location, GMK Intergrated Systems' audio support included Symetrix Jupiter hardware and "app-based" software for system processing in the banquet rooms.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Consistent audio coverage was a priority at Equitana, not just for the 50,000 human visitors to the three-day event held at the Melbourne Showgrounds, but for four-legged listeners as well.
Read More »I first met Karl Winkler on a trip to Spain to check out the facilities for speaker maker D.A.S. Karl worked for Sennheiser US, which had recently started distributing D.A.S. product in the States, and Karl was in charge of marketing that brand. On that trip, we spent four days being wined and dined (back in the days when I still wined…), watching nightly fireworks displays and touring the huge temporary statues around Valencia in a celebration known as Fallas.
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