LAS VEGAS — Last week, the FRONT of HOUSE newsletter called for nominations for regional lighting production companies worthy of receiving the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year. FOH readers responded almost instantly, with a steady influx of names including a variety of well-known companies along with some others who are being nominated for the Hometown Hero award for the first time.
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GAPYEONG, South Korea – The ‘Light of Life’ Chapel, made from more than 600 trunks of Russian red pine that a Korean businessman gathered over the course of 10 years, is an architectural wonder but an acoustic challenge, particularly when the installation requires that the audio gear be heard but not seen. Soundus, K-array’s Korean distributor, provided a system that includes four KP52 ultra slim wall mount speakers that were hidden within the beams, with three KAN200s also wrapped around the shape of the buildings’ structure, in particular the cylinders extending from the roof.
Read More »LUGANO, Switzerland – Stagetec equipment supported TV broadcasts of Estival Jazz, a festival produced by Swiss broadcaster RSI, which tagets the Italian speaking portion of Switzerland. The outside broadcast vehicle with its integrated Aurus console was patched directly to Studio A of the RSI TV station in Comano, 10 kilometers away, via fiber optic cables. The signals from the musicians were routed to the Aurus sound control room in Studio A via this line, mixed there and routed back to the OB. From there the mix was integrated into the TV program. The festival took place July 10-12 at Lugano’s Piazza Riforma.
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LONDON – Fresh off the Franz Ferdinand tour, monitor engineer, Tom Howat took the same iLive modular set up of an iLive-112 Surface and iDR10 MixRack with additional PL10 remote controller on a short UK tour with Paolo Nutini. The tour began with BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival in Glasgow in late May and culminated in a performance at London’s Roundhouse on June 3.
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Using the same AD8D/P and DA8/P option cards as Horus but at a lower cost and smaller size, Merging Technologies’ Hapi audio converter has seen a steady demand since it debuted in March.
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CHARLOTTE, NC – The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a nonprofit enterprise dedicated to youth, technical music production and education, is now in its 17th year. Joining the Vans Warped Tour’s live events from Texas through California, the educational Tour Bus benefited from sponsorship support from Neutrik. Pictured here are band members from Wildcat Apollo, winners of the Neutrik-sponsored John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Neutrik presented the band with the Vans Warped Tour Prize.
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ROSKILDE, Denmark – Seeking to minimize bass spread from the Apollo stage, organizers of the Roskilde Festival chose Funktion-One speakers. The system comprised 24 Funktion-One Resolution 5 Touring speakers, configured in left and right clusters of 12. The all-important bass reinforcement came from 12 Funktion-One F221 and eight F218 enclosures.
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LOS ANGELES – Four Focusrite RedNet audio interfaces were installed as part of a major renovation of the broadcast production systems at Fifth Third Field, home to the Dayton Dragons.
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BACKNANG, Germany — d&b audiotechnik named Amnon Harman as CEO. He will be responsible for driving the continued success of company and be responsible for the further development and implementation of its strategic positioning.
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CAD Audio recently donated a number of MH510 studio headphones to music students in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – As part of a larger renovation of the St. Augustine Visitor Information Center, a Bose Panaray modular line array sound system was installed in conjunction with a LED video wall. “The visitor’s center was built as a community center, and its main hall is big and boomy – a difficult acoustical challenge,” explains Ron Prier. “The videowall is located in this entrance area and the video was filed by a high-definition RED camera, so we had to find a sound system that could provide sound quality that matched the quality of what visitors experience visually, while at the same time being able to address the acoustic issues of that space. The answer was the Bose Panaray system.”
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Portuguese PA company, ST Sonorizações Tuna, Lda, recently purchased Allen & Heath’s new Qu-24 compact digital mixer to add to its hire stock.
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