LAS VEGAS — With a sound that has been described as “equal parts indie rock and hip-hop,” Chester French has a first album, Love the Future, a hit single, “She Loves Everybody,” and will open for Blink-182’s 2009 North American summer tour starting in July. The duo and their freelance tour manager/FOH Engineer, Sean Peel, pictured here, rely on Electro-Voice’s new generation of PL80 mics.
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BOWLING GREEN, OH —Bowling Green State University’s (BGSU) Vocal Jazz Camp, which features instruction from members of New York Voices, a Grammy-award-winning vocal jazz quartet, is getting support from Sennheiser and Neumann in the form of a scholarship and live microphones, both for use during the camp and as a prize.
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SCHAUMBURG, IL —With three other clubs in Chicago’s Wrigleyville and Lincoln Park suburbs, the owners of the new John Barleycorn here wanted to take things up a few notches. The club/bar/restaurant combo offers dining and drinking on the first floor and a club/live sound venue upstairs.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA —Hosa Technology, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, granted distribution rights for its product line to Sun Pro-Audio of Cape Town for all of South Africa and to Hyperactive Audiotechnik GmbH of Hünstetten, Germany for both Germany and Austria.
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NASHVILLE — CMT Television’s Can You Duet, now in its second season, is being broadcast from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville. Audio production for the live taping includes two Yamaha PM5D-RH digital audio consoles, one at front of house and one at monitors.
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LONDON — Adlib Audio, which supplied sound for The Fray’s 2007 tour, was back this year, providing FOH control and a stage system for the band’s recent stops in the U.K. and Europe.
Read More »BURR RIDGE, IL — Frank Weber and John Muzyka, lead audio techs for Production Plus, have been contemplating the benefits of line arrays for a few years now, yet neither were satisfied or convinced there was a system offered that would uniformly appease their customers’ specifications or requirements —until they discovered Adamson’s SpekTrix system.
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MILFORD, NH — Earthworks has extended its line of High Definition Microphones with its new DP25/C and DP30/C snare and tom microphones. The DP25/C and DP30/C follow the launch of the FlexWand High Definition Microphone and the PianoMic System.
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ORLANDO — Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG) will launch its A/D-D/A converter, the 8-input EASERA Gateway x.8, at Infocomm, with its worldwide distributor Renkus-Heinz, at booth #6608.
Read More »As we head into the summer season—even in a flat-out crappy economy—it means time for festivals, fairs and other outdoor one-offs. We may be coming out of the mire a little earlier than other places but things at least appear to be slowly picking up in Las Vegas. After a really slow few months, more than one company I know of out here is running up to three shows deep some weekends.
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In the months before this venue opened, I posted a blog on ProAudioSpace about “iconic” venues that are all too often all rep and no substance. In other words, they may be famous but they sound like crap. And I must admit that part of what had driven it was a show I had just seen at the old Joint at the Hard Rock. In fact, it was one of two closing performances with a big rock band that made their name in the 1980s.
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Once again, the call came via ProAudioSpace.com. Would I be interested in coming out to cover the Robin Thicke/Jennifer Hudson tour and The Pearl, the high-end concert venue at the Palms Hotel that was covered in FOH back when they were building it? I really liked the idea of the venue, but the one show I had seen there left me underwhelmed because the room was under subbed, and with an act as great as the Black Crowes, that is well nigh unto a sin.
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