NILES, IL – Shure Inc. added two new associates to the sales team of the company’s Americas Business Unit. Tim Valley has been named Regional Sales Manager for the Pro Systems Group for the Western U.S. and Christos Desalernos has been named Senior Regional Sales Manager for the Retail Group for the Western U.S.
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MURFREESBORO, TN – Mike Jones, who oversees worship production for North Boulevard Church of Christ here, is using a pair of Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital mixers for very distinct purposes. One of the GLD-80s mixes live sound in the church’s auditorium while the second GLD-80 mixes audio for broadcast and recording.
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers unveiled its new corporate brand identity at InfoComm. CEO Steve Johnson said, “Community’s brand has always been highly respected throughout the pro audio industry. With this new corporate brand identity, we’re modernizing the way we present our company to the world while building on our past strengths and renewing our commitment to our customers.”
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COLUMBIA, MO – As part of a major addition including four new studios, The Columbia Performing Arts Centre added a sound system centered on the Ashly nXp8002 two-channel Network Amplifier. “Of course the built-in DSP is one of the first features that drew us to the nXp line, we needed smooth compression and limiting to protect the system as well as a good EQ to fine tune the speaker response to each space. The fail-over functionality was huge, as was the unit’s super low power consumption at idle. That kind of intelligent power management is great in a situation like this,” said said Chris Howe, manager at Sound Concepts Inc.
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BANGALORE, India — Harman provided a complete live sound system and Martin lighting for the An Ode to the Blues festival in Bangalore, India. Two stages were equipped with a variety of JBL loudspeakers including four VRX 900 Series loudspeakers, two STX828 dual-18-inch subwoofers, two PRX615M powered loudspeakers and two STX815M loudspeakers. The loudspeakers were powered by Crown VRACK complete, self-contained amplifier systems, which include I-Tech HD Series power amps, analog and digital connections and a globally universal power distribution system, all housed in wheeled rack with a suspension system that enables VRACK to be flown if desired.
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HAMMOND, IN — Faith Church has been adding a number of “satellite” locations since it was originally founded in South Holland, IL in 1963. There are now six locations, four in buildings that the church owns and two in rented locations. For a recent move to a larger rented space in Hammond, IN — the Hammond Academy of Science and Technology’s gym, which Faith Church is using for Sunday services — church leaders turned to GC Pro for an assist in quickly convert the reverberant gym into a highly intelligible worship location.
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Meyer Sound has released four online video tutorials to support users of the LYON linear sound reinforcement system, the newest addition to its LEO Family of line array products. Covering topics that range from system design and rigging to optimization, the video modules are available for viewing on the company’s video page.
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SAN DIEGO, CA – For Petco Park, home to Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres, systems integrator Daktronics installed a variety of Harman components including JBL Professional loudspeakers, Crown amplifiers and BSS Audio processing components. The facility, which opened in 2004, seats 42,445 and calls itself “The World’s Best Ballpark in America’s Finest City.”
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MILWAUKEE, WI — Arup — an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists — provided acoustic and audiovisual consulting and design services for the ‘Listening to Mitchell’ art installation which opened here July 11. The project, which also included an 18-channel storefront sound installation, relies on Biamp’s Tesira SERVER-IO for digital signal processing (DSP) to bring the interactive public exhibit to life.
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NILES, IL — Shure recently promoted four of its senior executives, including Ray Crawford (pictured here), vice president of strategic planning and integration; Mark Humrichouser, vice president of the Americas business unit; Meg Madison, vice president of human resources; and Tom Kundmann, assistant vice president of product development.
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Allen & Heath has released a new firmware update for its Qu Series of compact digital mixers with a number of core new features to enhance functionality of the product range. Along with support for the newly launched Qu-32 mixer and AB168 Audio Rack, v1.5 introduces DCA Groups, custom channel naming, flexible dSNAKE output patching, improved routing for studio recording applications, and additional MIDI control soft keys.
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SCHEESSEL, Germany – For the Hurricane festival, where headliners Arcade Fire, Volbeat, Seeed, Kraftklub, and Fettes Brot, among others, drew 70,000 visitors, TVN Mobile Production GmbH brought their Ü3 OB truck (equipped with a Lawo mc²66) and a mobile control room (with a Lawo mc²56) to mix the live broadcast sound from the two main stages and make multitrack recordings for later broadcast.
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