Pittsburgh City Council Chambers Select Audio-Technica

PITTSBURGH— The City of Pittsburgh recently installed a Dante-networked Engineered Sound conference microphone system from Audio-Technica for the city council chambers. The council members had been using the same XLR-connected microphones for 30-plus years and needed the newer technology. According to David Finer, Pittsburgh’s communication technology manager, the single biggest selling point of Audio-Technica was the programmable mute button.

SANTA CLARITA, CA – Kelvin Flores, director of instrumental music at Arroyo Seco Junior High School in Santa Clarita, CA,  arranged for parents to purchase Alpine’s MusicSafe Classic and MusicSafe Pro musicians’ ear plugs for his students. Flores has high frequenty hearing loss and wanted to protect his students’ hearing with a solution that he himself uses. 

LOS ANGELES – Clair Global has been supplying DiGiCo consoles to Andy Grammer’s range of gigs this past year, which included a co-headlining trek with Gavin McGraw and as the opening act for Train. The Stealth Core 2-equipped SD9 for monitors and SD10 for FOH gives the tour increased functionality but with a smaller footprint in the truck, helping save on transportation costs.

KNOXVILLE, TN — When the Knoxville Urban League needed a corporate event house to support its annual gala this year, they turned to Mike Brown, president of M&M Productions, for a turnkey event. Brown knew he needed a versatile system that would provide clarity and intelligibility for the many spoken presentations during the popular social event – while still being dynamic enough to support the powerhouse band, Tower of Power, for the concert portion of the evening. He turned to FBT for his FOH audio rig for the event.

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT – Justin Bieber’s “Purpose World Tour” is carrying Telefunken microphones for vocals and all of the live instruments in the show. “After trying several manufacturers’ capsules we found that the Telefunken M80 was the best capsule for vocals,” says FOH engineer Ken “Pooch” Van Druten (pictured here, right) with monitor engineer Alex Macleod.

SAN DIEGO – Univision and Fusion Media Group assembled RiseUp As One as a concert to celebrate music, diversity and unity on the US-Mexico border in San Diego. 3G Productions provided five DiGiCo consoles to make sure the sound never missed a beat. Howard “Howie” Lindeman and Ron Reaves manned the two SD7s at the FOH, while the two monitor consoles were similarly assigned and manned by Michael Bove and Stan George.