LOS ANGELES — For EightyTwo, a new 4,000-square-foot classic video arcade and pinball bar that recently opened in L.A.’s Downtown Arts District, co-owners Scott Davids and Noah Sutcliffe turned to Gridworks for an audio system that includes QSC K Series and AcousticDesign Series loudspeakers. The idea is to bring patrons back to 1982, hence the name.
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LAS VEGAS — L-Acoustics announced that its new line source with horizontal steering, the K2 loudspeaker system, will be making its official North American debut at the InfoComm show here this month, at stand #C11908.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Scott Bradford, technical director of the Fellowship Church here is one of a growing number of audio pros now using plugins from Waves Audio in house-of-worship environments. The church is equipped with two Waves-enabled DiGiCo SD8 consoles — one for FOH and one for monitors.
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ATLANTA — CTS Audio installed a Bose RoomMatch system to meet the needs of Church of the Apostles, a mega-church in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. CTS director of AVL integration, Neal Watson, worked with the church’s media and communications director, Kevin Knox, who admitted being reluctant at first to take the RoomMatch route. The installation included a rush order for the first six RMS218 units off the Bose production line.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The stadium hosting the FIFA World Cup 2014 finals competition features an Electro-Voice sound system and a Dante network card-enhanced Allen & Heath GLD-80 mixer. The mixer controls audio distribution around the entire stadium through fiber optic cables. Pictured here with the GLD-80 mixer is Carlos Eduardo Melo Ramires (Kadu) from A&H’s Brazilian distributor, AudioPremier, at the stadium.
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SAVANNAH, GA — After a 14-year, $14 million restoration, the historic Lucas Theatre here reopened in 2000 as the Lucas Theatre for the Arts. The most recent improvement has been an Alcons Audio system, provided last year by Jon Maslansky of Summit Systems with the approval of theatre manager David Harris.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — PSS Sound, based here, has turned to Harman gear including the company’s JBL Loudspeakers, Crown Amplifiers and Soundcraft Digital Consoles for a variety of recent gigs in Louisiana’s capital city, including the Manship Red Carpet Gala Fundraiser, an annual gala for Our Lady Of the Lake Foundation and the Groovin’ on the Grounds concert at Louisiana State University. Pictured here, Groovin’ on the Grounds.
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ORANGE, CA — SKB Corporation has named industry veteran Eric Sands as the new national sales manager for the company’s Music Pro AV Division. The company is a leader in the design and manufacture of molded polymer transport cases.
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OMAHA, NE — For St. Peter Catholic Church here, Conrad Schmitt Studios designed a new audio system that includes a Symetrix Radius 12×8 Dante network audio DSP system with Symetrix ARC wall panel remote.
Read More »WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce honored Tempe, AZ-based Precise Corporate Staging (PCS) with the Blue Ribbon Small Business Award for a second consecutive year. The award was presented at the 10th annual America’s Small Business Summit, held here June 11-13. It was the second consecutive year for PCS to be recognized with the honor, which recognized PCS’ charitable efforts. The company has donated $2.5 million in time, equipment and money since its inception in 2000.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Jonathan and Susan Lipp, owners of Full Compass Systems, recently attended the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Advocacy Fly-In in Washington, D.C. Here they joined celebrity musicians, researchers, congressional leaders and other NAMM members to press Congress on the importance of providing music education to all children.
Read More »USITT is accepting nominations for their Distinguished Achievement Awards and Special Achievement Awards from June 1-July 1. The Distinguished Achievement Awards honor “people whose careers have greatly contributed to a specific field of entertainment design or technology.” Details on the five Special Achievement Awards, which are not necessarily awarded annually, are below. Nominations are now open on the USITT website.
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