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Lectrosonics Keeps Dead Daisies Live on Tour

The Dead Daisies comprise some of the most wanted A-list musicians on the heavy rock circuit.

Lectrosonics Keeps Dead Daisies Live on Tour

LOS ANGELES – Lectrosonics is helping keep The Dead Daisies live and playing on tour. Specifically, Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless LT belt pack transmitters and LR compact receivers are accompanying rock’s industrial strength band. Says bass player Marco Mendoza, 
“When you’re jumping around stage in city after city, with the stuff riding around on the truck in between, there is no better test. To have a wireless system that we can depend on around the world, like we do with Lectrosonics, is just priceless.”


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The entry level mic VPS-20, the VPS-60 and the top of the range mic, the VPS-80.

American Audio to Debut Six New Products at NAMM

ANAHEIM, CA – American Audio will debut six new additions to its line of professional audio products at the 2017 NAMM show. A new range of vocal microphones include the entry level mic VPS-20, the VPS-60 and the top of the range mic, the VPS-80. Also making its debut is the WU-419V wireless mic package, plus two new pairs of headphones, the BL-40 and BL-60. The products will be on display at the ADJ Group of Companies booth, #5774.

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The Deva system brought a whole new range of functionality to the city’s most important gathering.

Deva Makes Times Square Debut at NYE Festivities

NEW YORK – Nothing rings in the new year quite like the big ball dropping in New York City’s Times Square. For the past 17 years, Maryland Sound has provided the live sound that makes the event a magical experience for the more than two million attendees braving winter weather for the event. This year, the company deployed new Deva multimedia devices powered by Powersoft as part of their system, providing security monitoring, emergency messaging capabilities and ambient music for the festivities.

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Ellen’s Stardust Diner is located in the heart of Times Square in New York City. Photo: Courtesy Ellen’s Stardust Diner.

Sennheiser Helps Ellen’s Stardust Diner Deliver High Notes

NEW YORK – Ellen’s Stardust Diner features a singing waitstaff with its side of fries. Recently, the diner added a new item to the menu: an upgraded Sennheiser XS Wireless System to deliver clean audio while handling the busy and hostile RF environment of its Times Square neighborhood. The system covers the entire perimeter of the diner, and up to six different performers can sing at any given time.

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Manchester's Winter Gathering includes an ice skating rink, live music, concessions and vendors. Photo: Alex Morgan, Neuron

Danley UK, Neuron Pro Audio Deliver at Winter Gathering

MANCHESTER, UK – Manchester’s Winter Gathering – centered around a historic London Road Fire Station – required a sizeable collection of Danely Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers from Neuron Pro Audio. The decommissioned station fills an entire block and has a massive courtyard at its center, which the Winter Gathering populates with an ice skating rink, live music and hip concessions and vendors. The live music is a mixture of bands, DJ sets and quirky pop-up acts, like a Mannequin Challenge and a walkabout brass band that performs covers of famous ’90s-era dance tunes.

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Motown: The Musical opened to rave reviews earlier in 2016 at the 1400-seat Shaftesbury Theatre and continues its extended run through at least October 2017.

London’s West End Rocks to its Soul with Meyer Sound

LONDON – Autograph Sound provided Meyer Sound Leo Family reinforcement systems for two of the hottest musicals playing London’s West End: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock (with sound designer Mick Potter) and Motown: The Musical (sound designer Peter Hylenski). Says Potter, “For School of Rock, it was simply a matter of finding the right Meyer loudspeakers for the style of the show – in this case a combination that could deliver rock concert levels yet with the detail and transparency of a theatre system.”

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The QSC K Cardioid Subwoofer.

QSC Introduces K Cardioid Subwoofer

QSC introduces the K Cardioid Subwoofer, which provides all the benefits of a cardioid subwoofer array but in a single, compact enclosure. “Keeping bass in its place” for mobile entertainers, AV production and rental professionals, as well as modestly-sized performance venues, the K Cardioid Subwoofer manages low frequencies on the stage, or any application where undesirable low frequency energy needs to be minimized. The K Cardioid subwoofer is expected to be available in the first half of 2017.

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Engineer José María Rosillo with dLive at the "El Gusto es Nuestro" show in Madrid.

Allen & Heath Chosen for Anniversary Tour of Spain

MADRID – Sorter Sound Professional supplied an Allen & Heath dLive and ME system for a 20th anniversary live performance tour of a collaborative album, “El Gusto es Nuestro” by renowned Spanish artists. Sound engineer José María Rosillo requested dLive for the tour, which visited 33 venues across Spain, entertaining 500,000 fans.

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Gateway for Cancer Research Cures Gala 2016. Photo: Bob & Dawn Davis Photography & Design

OSA Relies on Martin Audio for Navy Pier Events

CHICAGO – OSA International recently produced back-to-back events for two clients who used Chicago’s venerable Navy Pier in very different ways. Both of the events were completely different technically, and had to be strategically designed to provide both clients exactly what they were looking for. A Martin Audio MLA system helped them overcome a number of challenges.

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