LAS VEGAS — For the fifth time in as many years, Texas-based LD Systems traveled to Las Vegas in December for the 49th annual Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (WNFR), a 10-day event some call the Super Bowl of rodeo. LD has partnered with the WNFR since 2004 as the event’s exclusive light and stage producer. 2007 marked the first year that LD also supplied sound reinforcement for the event.
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TUCSON, AZ — The first thing that visitors notice when they enter Tucson's Faith Tabernacle Church, where a Meyer Sound system was recently installed, is the view. Directly behind the pulpit, a wall of glass looks out onto Mount Lemmon and the Coronado National Forest.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — The Prodigy has been called the world’s “bassiest” band, but when they headlined the second stage at last summer’s V Festivals in Chelmsford and Stafford, there was a challenge.
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LONDON — Britannia Row Productions supplied Butterfly Outline arrays to amplify Will Young’s U.K. tour for the second time. That tour wrapped up with a mid-December show at London’s Roundhouse.
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NEW YORK — TimbreTech Audio Services designed and integrated Harman gear into the sound system at Santos Party House, supporting the club’s DJ and live performances. Jim Toth designed a live system around a Soundcraft Vi6 console at FOH can be locked off and run remotely via a laptop in the DJ Booth when one of a host of top DJs is performing in the house.
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MONTREAL — After more than 15 years off the road, singer-songwriter-poet Leonard Cohen and his nine-piece band, led by bassist Roscoe Beck, are touring the world. Solotech is providing support for the tour, using a Meyer Sound system featuring MILO and MICA line array loudspeakers.
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Allen & Heath recently launched a new compact digital mixing system. Called the iLive-T Series, the system offers many of the features of iLive in a compact, lower-cost package. The T Series comprises the fixed I/O iDR-32 and iDR-48 MixRacks and iLive-T80 and iLive-T112 Surface options with remote CAT5 connection. Each rack can be used with either control surface, and all models will be compatible with the existing iLive units.
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WorxAudio Technologies, a leading manufacturer of loudspeaker systems for the pro touring and install markets is now shipping its TrueLine Series TL215S-P bass loudspeaker system. The systems features a compact form factor that is designed for both touring sound and fixed installations.
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Rational Acoustics LLC’s Noise Stick, an acoustic test and and measurement product, does one thing: generate pink noise. It requires no batteries and no configuration. It does not even have a power switch. Users simply plug it into a phantom-powered microphone input, and it will generate pink noise. Unplug it, and it stops.
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LONDON — Insync Productions generated 3,491,000 watts of sound for the wide range of shows on which they were responsible for AV production, much of it pumped out through Martin Audio sound reinforcement systems.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — For the Kanye West “Glow in the Dark” tour — which also featured performances by Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna, N.E.R.D, and Nas — Stage Audio Productions relied on AKG wireless technologies including the WMS 4000 wireless system and the IVM 4 in ear monitoring system. The year-long tour visited 40 cities on six continents.
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KUNGSBACKA, Sweden — Lab.gruppen has announced its acquisition of the Lake trademarks and the exclusive rights for use of Dolby® Lake® Processor (DLP) technology for both Touring and Permanent Sound Reinforcement markets, from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Pictured here, from left: Carl Rohdell, Håkan Gustafsson, Tomas Lilja, Emil Tirén and Klas Dalbjörn.
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