VANCOUVER, BC – Radial Engineering, which purchased the Hafler brand from Rockford-Fosgate, is re-launching the brand this year. “Way back in the 1990’s, Radial was the Canadian distributor for Hafler, and ever since then, we have felt that given the opportunity, we could bring Hafler back to the world of audio,” said Radial president Peter Janis.
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LONDON – Major Tom Ltd. is providing a Meyer Sound LYON system to support Ed Sheeran’s one-man shows. The setup varies, with larger shows using front hangs of 12 LEO-M over four LYON linear line array loudspeakers each, with 14 additional LYON loudspeakers in each of the twin side hangs. Completing the system are 18 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements for low end and eight M’elodie line array loudspeakers for front fill. A Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system with one Galileo Callisto 616 AES and four Galileo Callisto 616 array processors provide system drive and alignment. Chris Marsh is Sheeran’s production manager and FOH engineer.
UDINE, Italy – Artesuono Studios’ recent addition of Merging Technologies’ Horus Networked Audio Interface has greatly improved the portability of the mobile rig whilst significantly improving the end results. Horus was chosen for the quality of the microphone preamplifiers, the converters and the ease in connecting to existing Avid Pro Tools HDX and HD3 Accel systems. Pictured here is Stefano Amerio, Artesuono’s owner and principal sound engineer.
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SWEDEN – Producer, songwriter, mixer and re-mixer Lars Söderberg has been using iD22, Audient’s USB AD/DA interface monitoring system, after a putting it through its paces in a comparison shoot out.
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AARHUS, Denmark – A custom delay system comprised of K-array speakers was installed in the new offices for Krifa, a trade union, which relocated here recently from Randers, Denmark. The speakers are installed within a large meeting room in the new facility. Jan Juul Hansen, from MAVT DK distributor of K-array managed the audio setup for the space.
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VICTORIA, Canada — DL Sound & Lighting Productions supplied Harman’s JBL VTX V20 line array loudspeakers and Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amplifiers for two months of live performances for the Butchart Gardens’ “Summer at the Gardens” concert series.
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DPA Microphones’ d:fine 66 and d:fine 88 Miniature Headset Microphones promise users a combination of sound quality and ease of use, particularly with the units’ design for ease of grid cleaning/changing.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — The 19,000-capacity Cruzan Amphitheatre here recently enhanced the audio coverage for its lawn area with 24 L-Acoustics KARAi loudspeaker enclosures. Andre Serafini, owner of Miami Gardens-based Beachsound & Lighting, Inc., designed and installed the new system.
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NAPA, CA – City Winery is a collection venues pairing music and wine launched by Michael Dorf, also known as the founder of the Knitting Factory performance spaces in NYC and beyond. Dorf opened the first City Winery in New York in 2008 with a Meyer Sound M’elodie line array loudspeaker system. The Chicago location followed, with a JM-1P arrayable loudspeaker system. At the City Winery location (pictured here), the setup includes MINA, 1100-LFC, UP-4XP and MJF-210 elements with a Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system. Another Meyer Sound system was slated for a Nashville location, due to open this month.
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When it comes to really big shows, sometimes size does matter. We checked out a some large format digital consoles and found models to fit nearly anyone’s needs, especially if your channel count requirements hover in the near-100 (or more) range.
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GALVESTON, TX — Four AudiaFLEX units from Biamp Systems are distributing digital signal processing across the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier amusement park. This allows the coastal location to provide pier-wide paging, background music, prerecorded message playback, and more.
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Products have a way of proceeding through development at their own pace. These sometimes take a bit longer to evolve as new concepts are prototyped, tested and matured, and additional functions and features are added and tweaked — well before reaching the beta or initial release phase. So it was with mc² 36 live audio console.
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