Covina Center Satisfies Local Arts Scene with Meyer Sound

COVINA, Calif. – Nestled in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, the Covina Center for the Performing Arts is a distinctive venue. With the capacity for 99 patrons to attend theatrical performances (up to 130 for concerts), Covina now features a Meyer Sound system encompassing sound reinforcement, audio show control, cinema surround and the Constellation electroacoustic architecture. 

LONDON – A wide range of high-profile artists such as Annie Lennox, Leona Lewis, the Sugababes and Will Smith assembled in London's Hyde Park for a concert to mark the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa. Sennheiser was on hand to continue its tradition of supplying microphones, wireless monitoring systems and full technical support.

EL PASO, Texas – When Pastors Charles and Rochelle Nieman first answered the call to preach the gospel in 1977, they were holding services in a tiny railroad hall in El Paso, Texas. Today, the Niemans' vision has been realized in the newly constructed home of their Abundant Living Faith Center (ALFC), which counts more than 15,000 active members. With approximately 8,000 worshippers attending services at ALFC weekly, the new facility's  3,620-seat main auditorium was designed and built to deliver music and liturgy clearly and intelligibly via a complete L-ACOUSTICS sound solution.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Though highly portable the Dynacord Cobra-2 PWH loudspeaker system packed enough power to unleash weapons-grade audio when called to do so. Buck Tallman of Dynacord Sales Reps Quantum Sales & Technology recently got such a call from Mike Delio, Special Tactics Trainer at the Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos Army Airfield, California, who needed a high-output sound system to help 80 soldiers mentally prepare for battlefield SPL levels during a weekend-long training exercise.

SALT LAKE CITY ─ Audio Logic Systems of Bloomfield, Minn. provided full production for the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) National Youth Conference held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. Two Yamaha consoles were used at the event: a Yamaha DM2000 digital at console at front of house and a Yamaha M7CL digital console for monitors.

ONTARIO – Demonstrating the time-proven performance of JBL loudspeakers across product lines for even the most demanding house-of-worship environments, Westbury National Show Systems installed JBL loudspeaker systems at the Richmond Hill Chinese Community Church as well as the Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, both located in Ontario, Canada. The installation at Richmond Hill was part of an extension to the existing facility with the addition of a 1,600-seat worship sanctuary, while the installation at Scarborough was part of a new, uniquely designed church with a sanctuary capacity of 1,000 people.

DALY CITY, Calif. — Stone Temple Pilots, reunited after an eight year hiatus, are currently engaged in a 64-date summer tour across North America with dual Digidesign VENUE systems for both FOH and monitors.

LAS VEGAS — Nominations for the 2008 Parnelli Awards are now being accepted at www.parnelliawards.com/nominate. Since 2001, the Parnelli award has recognized pioneering and influential individuals and their contributions to the live event industry, honoring both individuals and companies. Nominees for all categories, including FOH Mixer, Sound Company and more are now being accepted at www.parnelliawards.com/nominate.

MIAMI – Three 6 Mafia performed at the Miami club Sobe Live to promote the group’s new CD "Last 2 Walk." Production company Drummer Boy Sound, which does sound for Sobe Live, was in charge of the sound with Harold Cummings of Drummer Boy (FOH/Monitors) and Michael Foster, Three 6's engineer handling the audio chores.

LAS VEGAS – Blue Man Group, whose unique and globally successful show is a performance art spectacle rooted in dynamic percussion, relied upon the Electro-Voice N/D468 tom and N/D868 kick drum microphones.

The Invisible Waves series of PC-based RF spectrum analyzers are touted as the world’s first, PC-based RF spectrum analyzers, which offer automatic charting of open white space (open RF frequency) for use with wireless microphones, in-ear monitors, remote control, etc. The Invisible Waves model IW1800 covers the frequency span of 100 KHz to 1.8 GHz. Resolution bandwidth (RBW) is 1 KHz with a typical sensitivity of-120 dbm.