Palme Expo China
May 26-29, 2011 Beijing, China www.palmeonline.com
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AES Convention
May 21-23, 2010 ExCeL London www.aes.org
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June 15-17 2011 Orlando, FL www.infocomm.org
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SACPS Uses Martin Audio Gear at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival
BOONVILLE, CA — A yearly touchstone for Sacramento Production Services, this year’s three-day Sierra Nevada World Music Festival featured a plethora of roots music talent from around the globe including King Sunny Ade, Sly & Robbie, Femi Kuti, Junior Reid, The Heptones, The Abyssinians and more.
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Turbosound Aspect Cleans Up in Glastonbury’s Acoustic Tent
GLASTONBURY, U.K. — The artist lineup at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival was as esoteric as ever, particularly in the Acoustic Tent, equipped this year with a Turbosound Aspect rig.
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The Dead Tour with Telefunken Mics
ROTHBURY, MI —The Dead, comprised of founding members of The Grateful Dead, have been touring extensively this year with the new M 80 dynamic microphones from Telefunken Elektroakustik.
Read More »Waves Expands Plug-Ins and Digidesign Compatibility
TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves Live Division, which earlier this year announced that more than 50 of its plug-ins would be compatible for use with Digidesign D-Show software and Venue consoles, announced that its Hybrid line (H-Comp Hybrid Compressor and H-Delay Hybrid Delay) and PuigChild compressor limiter will be compatible with Venue as well.
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CapaRezza’s Summer Tour Relies on Proel Gear
MILAN, Italy — With a stage name that means “curly hair” in Italy’s Apulian dialect and a recent album called Le Dimensioni del Mio Caos, the artist known as CapaRezza may revel in unruliness. To keep his sound in line for the thousands who turned out for his recent performance at Milan’s Indroscalo sports complex, however, GM Music once again used Proel’s Axiom and Edge systems.
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The Classic Center Gears Up with NEXO GEO S 12 Series Line Array System
A church service at the Grand Hall at the Classic Center
ATHENS, GA — Technical Services Audio Visual (TSAV) upgraded the sound system at the Grand Hall at the Classic Center with a NEXO GEO S12 line array system. Used for performance events, the Grand Hall can seat 3,175, and for the very largest crowds, the system may be augmented with near fills for the area directly in front of the stage.
Read More »A Lesson From the Pirates
Yes I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late
The cannons don’t thunder
There’s nothing to plunder
I’m an over 40 victim of fate
—Jimmy Buffett
InfoComm ’09
InfoComm has always been more about video displays and digital signage and that kind of stuff than about live event gear. But given the lack of other outlets, it has really become the de facto live event audio trade show for the year.
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Peep Show
Jeffrey “Jj” Hillman has a tough job. He mixes audio for a show full of stunning hotties who just happen to spend much of the show topless. Sounds cool, right? But it is not what it appears. “I just came off a 60 hour week,” he says. “Nice paycheck but…” That “not what it appears” applies to pretty much everything about this show.
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