SALT LAKE CITY — Performance Audio of Salt Lake City recently installed a new Electro-Voice XLC sound system at Energy Solutions Arena. The 20,500-seat arena is home to the NBA’s Utah Jazz, and is the region’s major concert venue — Reba McIntire and Kelly Clarkson were the first to perform alongside the new system.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — With a 50-concert season, the Levitt Pavilion serves up an eclectic mix of high-quality entertainment productions, from dance to live music to performance art. With new productions for every show, the 2,000-capacity Levitt project demanded a sound system that could adapt quickly to an ever-changing schedule. Cornerstone Media president Kent Morris, a veteran audio contractor and installer, recognized the unique challenges of the project and specified the Peavey Versarray 212 line-array system as the main audio component.
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Crown Audio has debuted the newly extended XLS Series amplifiers that elevate the performance threshold of portable PA amplifiers, comprising the XLS 202, XLS 402, XLS 602, XLS 802 and the new XLS 5000. The XLS Series has now been extended with the addition of the new XLS 5000 ($1,399 U.S. street price), delivering 1,800 watts per channel in 4-ohm stereo mode and 5,000 watts in 4-ohm bridge-mono mode.
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LAS VEGAS — The 2008 Parnelli Awards may have all been presented. The winners have flown home and they’re already working on gigs that may be considered for next year’s awards. The audio gear for the 2008 show has long been packed up and taken away. But the event lives on, available on FOH-TV (www.fohonline.com/tv), with highlights from the presentation of the Audio Innovator Award to Roy and Gene Clair, the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dennis Sheehan, and an honorary introduction to this year’s emcee, Alice Cooper.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Ace Audio provided the sound reinforcement system for the Guitar Under The Stars event, an outdoor concert held at the Riverfront Recapture in Harford, Conn. Guitar Under The Stars has become a yearly tradition that draws thousands to the Hartford riverfront for a full day of music. Crown I-Tech 4000’s and 8000’s were used for front-of-house and monitors while XTi 4000s amplifiers powered the fill speakers.
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ENGLAND — CV Audio called upon on Allen & Heath iLive system for sound reinforcement at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival, a four-day festival with many international acts, such as Grammy-nominated Winnipeg five-piece The Duhks; Richard Thompson from Fairport Convention, legendary folk rockers Oysterband and Irish instrumental band Lunasa,
It's either ironic or just plain dumb, but as the live event audio industry gets more and more digital, the one piece of the signal chain that most lends itself to bits and bytes — the transport of signal between stage, console and speakers — is the part that is having the hardest time really catching on.
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Stewart Godfrey
FOH Engineer
Village Sound Company
Owings Mills, MD
www.villagesoundcompany.com
410.356.2121
[email protected]
Services Provided: Live sound reinforcement, design and installation of AV systems.
Clients: Recent festivals include the Federal Hill Festival in Baltimore and the Projekt Music Festival in Winchester, Va.; Biodiesel, Dr. Fameus, Kelly Bell Band, The Bridge, Basshound, The Cheaters and many other local Baltimore acts.
Quote: “Whatever you do, take care of your shoes.”
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I first had a look at the IM8 at the 2008 winter NAMM show. John Schauer from Yamaha led me to the secret room where the not-yet-released board was waiting. Yamaha is not the only manufacturer that likes to keep their new products undercover until the moment of release. Just about every mixing console manufacturer conceals their new hardware until they are ready. Whatever the reasoning behind Yamaha's motives, John was definitely in secret-agent mode at NAMM. He told me that this console was designed with houses of worship in mind. It has enough bells and whistles to satisfy a variety of mixing demands and is still very simple to operate. However, as I looked over the board, I thought it would work well in an array of operations outside of worship.
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The EV DC-One speaker processor is a long-awaited product that is huge in the value quotient (features and performance divided by cost to own). I took delivery of the DC-One and the first thing I noticed was the size of the unit. While it is the expected one-rackspace high, the 14 inches of depth is way beyond the usual amount for these processors. When I inquired about this, the designers uniformly said that customers complained about having to make patches to shallow depth processors when in a rack of full-size power amplifers. Given the go-ahead on depth the designers made good use of the space and concentrated on DSP features and budgets.
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Midwest Sound and Lighting started with regional acts before opening its doors to the political arena.
John Rogers, marketing specialist for Midwest Sound and Lighting, knows that one of the reasons Midwest Sound and Lighting has been around since 1979 is because of the company’s dedication to simply getting the job done.
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Great city, great weather, OK gear
If you didn’t make it to the City by the Bay for this year’s AES, you missed out. Fun show. Great chance to see and meet old friends. Lots of new and shiny gear. How much of it is applicable to what we as live audio providers do every day? Well, that’s a different story.
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