TEL AVIV — Britannia Row Productions acquired a third Midas XL8 Live Performance System so that it would have two on hand to support Depeche Mode’s Tour of the Universe, which is about to get underway in Israel. The first Midas XL8 continues to support the world tour for Oasis.
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MACAO, China — Having renovated the small auditorium at the Macao Cultural Center in 2006 with an Arcs system, L-Acoustics’ Chinese distributor, Rightway Audio, has now installed a new Kudo line source system into the venue’s Grand Auditorium.
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AUDUBON, PA — When Allen & Heath announced the availability of the lower priced iLive-T digital mixing system at January’s NAMM Show, Dan Redman, president of Spinnaker Multimedia Solutions in Malvern, Penn., didn’t spend a long time sitting on the fence.
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FLUSHING, NY — Citi Field, the new 42,000-seat home for the Mets, has been equipped with over 550 EAW MK and AX series boxes. The systems integrator was TSI Global Companies, LLC, and it was designed by consultants WJHW.
Read More »FORT WAYNE, IN — Sweetwater Sound Inc. has launched a donation campaign designed to provide music gear and instruments to people of limited means who have a genuine interest in music. Sweetwater regularly receives requests for donations of gear from soldiers overseas, disaster victims, foster parents, and nonprofit organizations.
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The Venue SC48 features an all-in-one design, with all I/O, digital signal processing and tactile control into one compact console. The unit also features support for professional audio plug-ins and built-in Pro Tools LE® integration. It also introduces workflows for user efficiency, allowing them to focus on the mix.
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POINT CLAIRE, Quebec and OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for North America with K-Array, a PA loudspeaker and amplifier manufacturer based in Florence, Italy. K-Array’s offerings include the new KH4 self-powered, two-way, flat panel line array.
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DREXEL HILL, PA — For nearly six decades, Drexelbrook has been used for weddings, proms, trade shows and corporate retreats, and the venue has also served as the locale for some of the early episodes of TV’s American Bandstand. Toner Sound helped with a major redesign of the venue’s sound system using Community’s Cloud6 ceiling speakers.
Read More »NILES, IL —Shure Inc. extended its rebate program of up to $1,000 for the trade-in of Shure 700 MHz frequency band (698-806 MHz) wireless systems and for any other manufacturers’ qualifying 700 MHz frequency band wireless systems and their related components until the end of 2009.
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NORTH LAS VEGAS — The new Aliante Station Casino & Hotel is being touted as “a resort for locals,” but that doesn’t mean the facility is getting its gear at pawn shops and swap meets. Station Casinos, which launched the $675 million joint venture with Las Vegas Sun publisher Greenspun Corporation and operates 18 properties in southern Nevada, calls Aliante’s Access showroom its “crown jewel,” and has equipped it accordingly.
Read More »It was one of those deals you can’t turn down. With how digital everything in my world has become, there is no such thing as enough hard disc space. In addition to the 150GB in my MacBook Pro I carry a 400GB portable and the iMac on my desk at home has 250GB internal and—until recently—five external drives sitting behind it (and that does not count the 2TB network drive just filled with music).
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“We had a big P.A. that would rival any big rock show,” Fred Volger declares. “Lots of low end, lots of gain, surround sound speakers out in the house — we pumped.”
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