APEX, NC – Symetrix named Millar Electronics, based here, as its rep firm in the Southeast. Millar Electronics has emerged as a well-known audio/video manufacturers rep firm since it was founded 90 years ago to handled capacitors, resistors and other components. It will cover North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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FREDERICK, MD – Seeking to increase voice intelligibility, St. John the Evangelist Church upgraded to Community’s ENTASYS column line-source loudspeaker system. The new system has an ENTASYS ENT-FR full-range column and an ENT-LF low-frequency column on each side of the chancel tilted slightly downwards to avoid rear-wall echoes. The left and right transepts and the rear of the church are covered by ENT206s, and a pair of ENT203s provides coverage for the balcony and choir loft.
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SOMERVILLE, MA – A recent upgrade of the sound system at Johnny D’s nightclub and restaurant here included Harman Crown amplifiers, BSS signal processors, and a Soundcraft Si Expression 3 console. “The Si Expression 3 is perfect as an upgrade, because it helps people transition to digital due to its logical layout and ease of use,” said technical manager Dana Westover. “For example, we had a guest engineer who has never worked on a Soundcraft board before, and within 15 minutes, he was ready for the show.”
EWING TOWNSHIP, NJ – RCF partnered with Reid Sound to provide the sound system for the Olympic Town Entertainment Stage at the Special Olympics USA Games. The system included 4 dB Technologies DVA-T8 three-way active line array boxes ground stacked on top of 2 DVA-S10DP 18” active subwoofers per side, with RCF TT25-A 15” active two-way cabinets used as stage monitors and NX15-SMA 15” active speakers as fills. Additional satellite sound was provided with RCF HD10-A 10” active two-way cabinets.
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CALABRIA, Italy – Outline Butterfly and Mantas loudspeaker systems amplified the voice of Pope Francis on the occasion of the Holy Mass celebrated on the Plain of Sibari here before an estimated 250,000 worshippers June 21. The rig included 56 Butterfly modules, 24 Mantas modules and 24 Subtech 218 for low-end reinforcement. In the vicinity of the Papal chair, two Outline DVS 8, two stage monitor H.A.R.D. 212 and two H.A.R.D. 115 speakers were installed. The choir had other H.A.R.D. 212 monitors at its disposal, while Tripla, Doppia and DVS 10 enclosures covered other areas of the stage. Dee Jay Service from Rende (Cosenza) provided the gear.
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ASHLAND, OR – The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s first full reinforcement setup in its Allen Elizabethan Theatre centers on Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeakers. The system uses split center arrays of MINA loudspeakers, with two arrays of seven covering the orchestra and two of five covering the balcony. Outer left and right clusters of two-each UPQ-1P and UPQ-2P loudspeakers per side add stereo dimension for music and effects, while four 500-HP subwoofers supply musical low end and convincing effects—such as the giant’s footsteps heard in the production of Into the Woods.
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NEW YORK — Masque Sound continues to provide custom audio equipment packages for The Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park series at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, home to free productions of the Bard since 1962. (A 2013 production at the 1,800-capacity open-air venue is pictured here.) Masque Sound also works with The Public Theatre on other projects throughout the year.
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LONDON – Last year, Martin Audio’s MLA technology took on the noise leakage challenges posed by big concert performances at London’s Hyde Park and its close proximity to residential neighborhoods. This year, AEG Live, promoters of the British Summer Time Hyde Park festival, adopted a similar MLA solution. Capital Sound once again deployed MLA and MLA Compact gear, filling the ears of festival attendees listening to McFly and Busted (McBusted, pictured here) while sharply limiting the noise levels registered offsite.
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CHARLES TOWN, WV––Control Point Technology of Lebanon, PA recently installed a Martin Audio MLA Compact loudspeaker system for the Event Center at Hollywood Casino, which opened here in early July 2014. The system includes seven MLA Compact enclosures per side with six DSX subs and four DD6s for front-fill mounted sub-stage just under the stage lip. Two Martin Audio WT3s in the back of the room provide outfill for the rear seats and a stage monitoring system consisting of eight LE1200s, two LE1500 monitor wedges and a pair of Blackline H3+ for sidefill.
Read More »PORTLAND, OR – Audinate, based here, noted that Jerusalem, Israel-based Kramer Electronics has become the 150th Dante manufacturer to license Audinate’s Dante networking solution.
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BROOKLYN, NY – Nina Persson, frontwoman for the Sweden-based pop group, The Cardigans, recently completed an international solo tour traveling through Europe and the U.S. Engineer Oscar Soederland used an Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital mixer to manage FOH and monitor sound. Sweden-based Parashoot supplied the GLD-80 along with an AR2412 remote IO rack and additional AR84.
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WORCESTER, MA – The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, based here, recently upgraded its sound reinforcement system. EAW’s Application Support Group (ASG) worked with the venue’s head of audio, Nick Joyce, on the new system that includes 12 Anya modules hung L-R (six per side) from the proscenium. Gino Pellicano, EAW ASG specialist, credited the use of Resolution software as a time-saver for the project, while also noting the ability of the Anya components to solve acoustic challenges within the space.