EAW Radius RSX12M Stage Monitor

LOS ANGELES – VER Tour Sound is supplying a Meyer Sound Leo Family reinforcement system on Justin Bieber’s “Purpose World Tour.” FOH engineer Ken “Pooch” Van Druten reflects on the tour’s aggresive staging and the time challenges, sometimes having just 15 minutes until doors open to hear the PA. “We time align the system, do a little bit of EQ and then just go for it. With the Leo Family rig, it works,” he says. “Some other systems out there can be finicky and would require a lot more time to get ready – time which we don’t have.”

NEW YORK – Masque Sound has recently made headlines for its role in the Broadway revival of the classic 1928 play, The Front Page. The story takes place in a newsroom, and a big part of the action centers around the busy ringing of telephones to carry the play and dialogue forward. Masque Sound’s Gary Stocker was applauded for creating a one of a kind “ringer box” that delivers authentic 1920’s era telephone sounds on cue on stage. Masque Sound also provided a custom PA system for the show.

CLEVELAND – During this past summer, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame installed a large outdoor performance stage and beer garden for local and national artists to perform as part of the Summer Jam sessions and Summer in the City concert series. In assembling backline for the new stage, the Hall team sought a bass amplifier that represented rock ‘n’ roll: the Ampeg SVT. “Ampeg is a legendary rock ‘n’ roll brand, so it’s especially appropriate for the Hall of Fame, and we had a connection to Ampeg through (musician) Will Lee,” says the Hall of Fame’s Steve Dobo.

LAS VEGAS – The 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards required more than 170 RF frequencies for wireless microphones, in-ear monitors and intercom systems. To minimize the already crowded RF bandwidth, Professional Wireless Systems  furnished five Radio Active Designs UV-1G wireless intercom systems to aid communication throughout the event. The systems were used primarily by the stage managers and the audio department.

SAN FRANCISCO — Sound On Stage leaned on L-Acoustics to provide the P.A. for all seven of the stages at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) festival, which took place Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. With more than 100 bands of widely differing genres beyond bluegrass performing over the festival’s three days, the need for a single audio solution to best accommodate them all was paramount.

SAUGATUCK, MI – Shannon Stewart of Stewart Independent Production was seeking a better solution than conventional rigging allows when flying a line array on a lift tower. He found the solution with the Polar Focus Spine Frame Adapter. “The Spine Frame design is flawless in its ease of attachment, pan and tilt capability and control,” Stewart explains. “The mounting bracket goes on the tower in seconds securely and with redundant safety chains.”

LONDON — DiGiCo was encouraged by strong demand among users of its SD series consoles for its Stealth Core 2 software upgrade to the company’s Stealth Digital Processing software. Citing “a massive number” of upgrades purchased in the first few weeks of the Stealth Core 2 release in July, DiGiCo is earning high marks from users for the software’s new graphic interface, enhanced processing, full Dynamic EQ, DiGiTuBes and MB Dynamics on every channel and buss.