TEL AVIV – Although big concerts planned for Tel Aviv this summer have been cancelled, starting with a July 17 Neil Young/Crazy Horse appearance that was canceled by police out of safety concerns, Lady Gaga’s artRave: the ArtPop Ball tour stop at the same outdoor Tel Aviv site, Hayarkon Park, went on as planned.
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CHICAGO, IL — Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Walter Becker and Donald Fagen took Steely Dan’s “Jamalot Ever After” tour across the U.S. and Canada this summer, with OSA International, Inc. providing Martin Audio’s Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) sound system. A video interview with Mark Dowdle, who returned to handle the FOH mix, can be seen upon clicking the link below.
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LONDON – Electronic pop band Little Dragon took to the stage at Somerset House here recently. Monitor engineer Marco Cruneri opted for a Soundcraft Vi3000 console to handle mixing duties for the band.
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SALZBURG, Austria – For the 2014 Salzburg Festival’s late Aug. 2014 presentation of Don Juan Kommt aus dem Krieg (Don Juan Comes Back from the War), a play written by Ödön von Horváth in 1936, technical director, Andreas Zechner used a three-module setup of Salzbrenner’s Polaris Touch system.
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LISBON and BRAGA, Portugal — Portuguese installer Sislite provided WORK Pro products for installation projects at the Sofitel hotel in Lisbon and Hotel Mercure in Braga.
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The GLD Editor is a Mac/PC -based control suite, offering all key facilities of the GLD digital mixer and display multiple information panels simultaneously. Similar to the iLive Editor, the software lets users configure settings or change existing shows online or offline to save/upload later. TCP/IP connectivity allows live mixing and processing over Cat-5 or Wi-Fi, for tweaking monitors onstage onstage via a wireless laptop while another engineer runs a sound check from FOH. It’s part of GLD firmware update, V1.3 and is a free download.
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Ideal for drummers and bass players, and designed to offer more punchy lows and more midrange, the Crankmaster 5000 is a five-driver, three-way custom in-ear design with four woofers and a single tweeter. Specs include 36-ohm impedance, 110 dB SPL sensitivity (@100mV) and -26 dB of noise isolation. Prices start at $749 (including Pelican case, detachable 50-inch cable and 1/4-inch adapter) and options include custom colors/artwork, engraving and black or clear cables.
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TX is a new line of compact, self-powered molded two-way speakers for P.A. or monitor applications. Designed in the U.S., the series includes the 8-inch TX8 ($129/street) and 10-inch TX10 ($169), both with 280 watts of peak power and a 1-inch HF compression driver. The larger TX12 (12-inch, $199) and TX15 (15-inch, $249) have 600 peak watts and 1-inch HF compression drivers with titanium diaphragms. All have XLR mic/line inputs, analog limited and overload protection and 36mm pole mount sockets.
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Ashly’s Remote iOS app can be used to design and deploy custom remote control interfaces for adjusting parameters of networkable Ashly products over Wi-Fi. Ashly Remote leverages the iPad’s intuitive touch-screen technology and features include custom graphic background imports, security features to limit levels of user access and the ability to create, save, load and share custom-designed remotes. It’s a free download from the Apple app store.
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The LTA-86.5 is a vertical column array with eight 6.5-inch cone drivers and a 1.4-inch HF compression driver in a 95-pound 60 x 12 x 11-inch Linear Tapered Array cabinet, offered in black, white or stained finishes. Specs include 120-degrees of horizontal dispersion and a 50 Hz to 20k Hz response. Columns can be vertically stacked (coupled) for larger venues or applications and a complementary FBH-115 horn-loaded single-15 sub is optional.
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Ideal for live mixers who need to block out background sounds, the THP-29 Extreme Isolation headphones, offer ultra high fidelity, high-input 40mm drivers and -29 dB of passive isolation. Developed in partnership with Direct Sound, these offer a closed back design, lightweight construction, adjustable head strap and padded ear cushions to provide optimum comfort extended listening. MSRP is $135.
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A couple of weeks ago, I dropped by to visit Ray Benson’s western swing band, Asleep at the Wheel, along with the crew, who were performing at the Bankhead Theatre in Livermore, CA, about a half-hour away from where I live. It’s no megatour — far from that — but I was genuinely excited about seeing the show (see “Production Profile,” Sept. 2014, page 48). I haven’t seen Asleep at the Wheel in a couple of years, and I also wanted to have a chance to check out the venue that’s just 30 miles outside the San Francisco Bay Area.
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