NEW YORK —AES announced a mix of advanced workshops and more fundamental tuturial presentations for its 127th convention at the Javits Center from Oct. 9-12, a process called “a demanding challenge” by Agnieszka Roginska, convention committee chair.
Read More »
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — Fantasy Sound International and Proel provided the sound at Kaohsiung Arena, a 56,000-square-meter, 15,000-capacity multi-purpose stadium in this southern Taiwan city, one of main stadiums used for World Games 2009.
Read More »OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser’s Seminars4Worship, a traveling workshop for worship leaders and technicians, has expanded with a wireless PM mixing session led by Sennheiser’s installed sound applications manager, Kent Margraves.
Read More »
SAN BERNARDINO, CA — Guerilla Union’s Rock the Bells tour made its Southern California appearance at the San Manuel Amphitheater before a crowd of some 14,000 revelers. The sound system included of components from D.A.S. Audio’s Aero 2 catalog.
Read More »NASHVILLE — Digital Console Rental, Inc. (DCR), founded by sound engineer Howard Jones in 2004, got its start with DiGiCo’s D5. The company, which now offers products for a range of touring artists, sound reinforcement companies and corporate events, recently added DiGiCo’s SD8 to its inventory.
Read More »
TACOMA, WA —With the ambient noise of multiple furnaces, whirring blow-torches and other machinery, even normal conversation can be a challenge at the Hot Shop at the Museum of Glass. To boost intelligibility in the 200-seat amphitheater that surrounds the workspace, the museum is using a single Community Entasys full-range column-line-array speaker.
Read More »
COLUMBIA, MD — In Howard Community College’s Smith Theater, a typical day might include theater and film to lectures and meetings, with the occasional live concert thrown in as well. The college chose an Allen & Heath iLive-112 digital mixing console as the control center for its new system.
Read More »
ANNISTON, AL — Sound Solutions, Oxford, Ala., recently completed one of the first house worship installations of the Electro-Voice EVA compact line array at Center of Hope Church. EVA is the first line array in EV’s “EV-Innovation” family of installation-dedicated loudspeaker systems.
Read More »
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — The Luxor Theatre, used for musicals, variety shows, stage plays, rock concerts and other events, has been equipped an Alcons loudspeaker system, which beat out two other competing systems in a staged demo event.
Read More »
BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems is retiring its 10-year-old PM1D digital mixing system, saying it has reached the limit on availability of key components and citing the need to secure enough parts for customer service well into the future. Production will cease in December 2009. The company has also released a white paper that outlines plans for the next generation of Yamaha's digital system platform.
Read More »
TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves is expanding its certification program for five Waves Audio plug-ins with the recently-announced Waves Gold certification program covering 18 additional Waves processors.
Read More »When was a teenager I lived just a few blocks from the local elementary school and we used to go over there on weekends, hop the fence and play basketball. We went there for a few reasons, It was close. It was a “real” court and much better than someone’s driveway and 8-foot hoops made us feel like NBA stars even though we all pretty much sucked.
Read More »