LAS VEGAS – The Parnelli Award Board of Advisors announced additional sponsors of the 10th annual Parnelli Awards, set for the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas on Oct. 22, 2010. There are now 23 confirmed Gold Sponsors, seven confirmed Silver Sponsors and six Production Partner sponsors, including B&R Scenery, which has signed on to host the Parnelli Cocktail Hour, which will start at 6:30 p.m.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Crosby, Stills & Nash are still touring, with 2010 dates in a variety of venues and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. FOH engineer Kevin Madigan is using his DiGiCo D5 to bring their harmony-infused, mellow protest songs to old and new fans.
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FULLERTON, CA – Eastside Christian Church's production staff is using a 16-port Clear-Com Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom frame and Tempest2400 four-channel wireless intercom system for communications across separate production areas for the church's five weekend services.
Read More »SIMI VALLEY, CA – Eugene "Gene" Czerwinski, the audio innovator and founder of Cerwin-Vega, died Aug. 6, 2010 at age 83. Czerwinski graduated from the University of Michigan and worked as an aerospace engineer before founding Cerwin-Vega in 1954.
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EDMONTON, KY – Black Stone Cherry uses beyerdynamic mics at the ramshackle wooden farmhouse that serves as the band members' studio, and also on the road. Drummer John Fred Young is the son of Kentucky Headhunters' Richard Young, whose grandmother first let him use the farmhouse for rehearsals.
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WINTER PARK, FL – Full Sail University's new multi-purpose, live performance venue, Full Sail Live, has been equipped with DiGiCo SD7 and SD8 consoles at FOH and Monitor engineering positions, respectively.
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BANGKOK – TechWorX worked with consultants Club Favour to help the 1,000-capacity Shock39 nightclub reopen with sound gear including the new Trinity X subwoofer from Void Acoustics. The Void system is the first to be imported into Thailand, and Schock39 is the first venue anywhere to be equipped with Trinity X subs.
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INSTANBUL, Turkey – When the gig is to provide sound reinforcement for more than 150 of the world's best debating teams, you don't want to raise any points of contention about the audio gear. Turkish PA provider Art Production Event Technologies got the last word in with their new iLive system.
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SINGAPORE – Featuring live performances, LED screen broadcasts of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and an outdoor bazaar with foods and activities, Beerfest Asia 2010 got audio support from D.A.S. Audio Asia, which provided a D.A.S. Audio Aero Series 2 for the 30,000 visitors drawn to the five-day event.
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NEW YORK – AMC's Mad Men made its fourth-season premiere outdoors, in Times Square, with a large video screen, VIP seating and a sound system set up near 47th Street and Broadway – the epitome of urban sensory overload. Barely noticeable on either side of the stage were K-array's KH4 and KS4 compact loudspeakers.
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TAMPA, FL – Brad Paisley's H2O Tour is a bit like a traveling mini-festival. The main stage, and draw, is Paisley, but it's supplemented by a two-hour pre-show featuring Easton Corbin, Steel Magnolia and Josh Thompson. They perform in a separate area called the Water World Plaza Stage, which has been equipped with a Sound Image-supplied audio setup including two Allen & Heath iLive-T 112 digital mixing consoles.
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TRIANON, MAURITIUS – Church Team Ministries International (CTMI), which hosts an annual international conference along with services every Sunday, built a new 4,000-seat auditorium to meet its growing needs. Durban, South Africa-based Northwind Recording provide the sound system, which includes an Aviom Pro16 Digital Snake.
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