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Chile’s New Grand Municipal Theatre Selects dLive

With 19 people in the cast who never leave the stage and no intermission during the show, two transmitters were used on each performer for redundancy.

Lectrosonics Lands a Role in ‘A Chorus Line’

STRATFORD, ONTARIO — When A Chorus Line was modified to take place on a thrust stage – with the audience seated on three sides of the show – it needed Lectrosonics SSM super slight micro transmitters to remain hidden on the performers. Says Peter McBoyle, sound designer and theatre consultant, “A Chorus Line also required more volume with a pop sensibility to it than many shows that I’ve done at Stratford. We also needed the smallest transmitter packs possible, as the cast members were wearing unitards and t-shirts.”

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Gaurav Malvai with his new Outline inventory.

Outline Names New Distribution Partner in India

BRESCIA, ITALY – Outline s.r.l. have appointed Global Pro-Audio Management as their exclusive distributor for the Indian sub-continent. Owner Gaurav Malvai says he is phasing out the existing products in his own rental inventory and replacing them with Outline. “Their product range gives me the flexibility and modularity that the rental division needs and of course it will also provide many opportunities to showcase these amazing products,” he says.

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Because there are "no bad seats in the house," artfully concealing mics is essential at Alley's intimate theatres. Photo: John Everett


Houston’s Alley Theatre Using PSA’s Discreet Embrace Earmounts

HOUSTON — Houston’s Alley Theatre has been testing out the new Embrace earmounts from Point Source Audio (PSA) during multiple production runs throughout a six-month period. Sound supervisor Pierre Dupree attributed his long-standing mic’ing challenge to there being no bad seat in the house in the intimate setting, which means there is a strong visual component for the audience. The actor mics need to blend away and until Embrace, it had been no easy task.

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FOH engineer Phillip Osborn (left) and monitor engineer Sam Hewitt at one of Blackhawk Audio’s two DiGiCo SD9 consoles on “The Very Next Thing” tour.

Casting Crowns Reaches Faithful Fans with DiGiCo SD9s

NASHVILLE — Contemporary Christian rock band Casting Crowns is out on the road again this fall with “The Very Next Thing Tour,” performing in arenas and churches across the country. Blackhawk Audio is providing a pair of DiGiCo SD9 consoles for the FOH and monitors, a first time for the crew to use the products.

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Monitor engineer Conor Dillon uses Sensaphonics 2MAX IEMs mixing for Ronan Keating, OMD, Sparks, and Franz Ferdinand.

Monitor Engineer Relies on Sensaphonics IEMs

CHICAGO – Monitor engineer Conor Dillon relies on Sensaphonics 2Max in-ear monitors (IEMs) no matter what tour it’s on, be it his current one with ex-Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, or past tours with OMD or Franz Ferdinand. He cites audio accuracy, comfort, fit and isolation as the keys to providing consistent sound across multiple artists.

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The Stone Mountain Arts Center is a 200-seat, timber frame music hall nestled in the scenic foothills of the White Mountains in Brownfield, ME.

Fulcrum Acoustic Helps Stone Mountain Arts Center

BROWNFIELD, ME – The Stone Mountain Arts Center turned to Klondike Sound to design a new sound system supporting their eclectic roster of artists. The audio challenges included the center’s highly reflective wooden surfaces. Fulcrum speakers were selected to solve their sound problems and blend in with the venue’s rustic timber frame architecture.

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AIMS Welcomes Four New Members

BOTHELL, WA — The Alliance of IP Media Solutions (AIMS) welcomes four new member companies: Calrec, Ericsson, Rohde & Schwarz, and Xilinx. There are now more than 50 companies in AIMS that are supporting the broadcast and media industry move to IP standardization.

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MADIface Pro Desktop Interface

RME, Synthax Introduce MADIface Pro Desktop Interface

REM distributor Synthax Inc. is now shipping the new MADIface Pro Desktop Interface. The new product retains the design aesthetics of RME’s Babyface Pro interface with its integrated XLR and analog I/O’s, but replaces the ADAT I/O with a MADI port. The result is 64 channels of audio on a single cable housed in a compact form factor that fits in one’s laptop computer bag.

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Biamp Systems' new four-channel power amplifier, the AMP-A460H.

Biamp Introduces New Power Audio Amplifier

Biamp Systems’ new four-channel power amplifier, the AMP-A460H, was developed for small- to medium-sized conference and meeting spaces. The new amplifier allows integrators to customize the amplification in rooms using Biamp Systems’ TesiraForte audio processing platform.

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The Guzzlers, known as “Houston’s favorite party band,” at a recent performance using Bose L1 systems. Photo: The Guzzlers.

Bose Portable Systems Help Houston Band Rock the House

HOUSTON – Houston band The Guzzlers have relied on the Bose L1 Portable Systems for the past decade to help them through their busy booking schedule – sometimes two gigs in one day in different cities. Guzzlers lead guitarist Harriss Lauderdale states, “If we hadn’t gotten these L1’s back in the day, we probably would have quit playing music years ago.”

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