BEIJING – Allen & Heath’s Chinese distributor, Sanecore Group, was appointed to install a new sound system in a 400m² multi-function hall of China Petrochemical Corporation, Sinopec. Sanecore selected a GLD mixing system, comprising a GLD-80 digital mixer, with accompanying AR2412 and AR84 remote I/O expander audio racks.
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LOMIANKI, Poland – Harman Soundcraft’s Polish distributor ESS Audio has fulfilled the first of its first batch of orders for the new Soundcraft Vi3000.The first two companies to take delivery are W Sound from Szczecin, run by Mariusz Węgiełek, and Modussound of Sieraków Śląski, headed by Artur and Lukasz Kedzia. Both confirm they already have the consoles out on tour.
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LAS VEGAS – Britney Spears’ Las Vegas production at at Planet Hollywood’s 4,600-seat AXIS theater here is equipped with DiGiCo SD Series consoles at FOH (Robert “Cubby” Colby is mixing on an SD10) and monitors (Johnny Balistrere is using an SD5).
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ADELAIDE, Australia – The Australian Pink Floyd Show (TAPFS), a Pink Floyd tribute band, is touring and performing with a selection of AKG microphones. The band has sold more than four million tickets in 35 countries.
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ASTORIA, NY – The owners of the Melrose Ballroom here, an 8,000-square-foot event, concert and performance venue, worked with Boston-based Audio Spectrum on the design and installation of a new sound system centered on EAW components.
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BOSTON — The Boston Opera House, housed in a theater that first opened in 1928, is relying upon Bose RoomMatch array modules to optimize coverage and intelligibility across its vast seating zones. The venue has 2,645 seats in all — 1,303 in the balcony.
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MEXICO CITY — For the current world tour for Mexican alt/psychedelic band Zoé, monitor engineer Gustavo Zertuche is using an SSL Live console supplied by Meridian Proaudio to drive the group’s wedges and in-ear monitors. Meridian Proaudio was the first rental company in Latin America to add the new console to its rental inventory.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL — For a late March performance by Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall in the Times-Union Performing Arts Center here, the northern Florida audience got a natural taste of southern Louisiana music via Digital Hybrid Wireless technology from Rio Rancho, NM-based Lectrosonics.
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HASTINGS, New Zealand — Denmark-based DPA Microphones named Direct Imports, based here, as its distributor in New Zealand. Direct Imports will carry a full stock of DPA products for live, recording and broadcast applications. Pictured here are, from left, Brett Dallas, Managing Director; Greer Compston, National Sales Manager and Rowan Brookfield, Pro Audio Division Sales Executive.
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LAS VEGAS — Launched at the LVH casino in March 2013, but with a plotline set in the 31st century, Raiding the Rock Vault got updated for 2014, signing on Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio) along with Carol-Lyn Liddle (Masters of Rock) and Stephanie Calvert (Starship) and an updated roster of songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The award-winning production uses AKG microphones from Harman. Pictured here, Keith Marks, production coordinator.
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NASHVILLE – Country music artist Levi Riggs has started touring with an HDL20-A rig from RCF-USA. The system consists of eight HDL20-A line array modules and four SUB 8006-AS subwoofers.
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NEW YORK – For the U.S. and European tour of Broken Bells, FOH engineer Dave McDonald has been using Allen & Heath’s iLive-112 Surface with iDR10 Mixrack, with the addition of a Dante network card delivering up to 64 channels to a recording rig. McDonald is running 42 channels from the system.
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