NAPPANEE, IN — To meet the needs of Nappanee Missionary Church’s 3,000 congregants and overcome hurdles posed both by FCC spectrum restrictions and the need for video broadcasts between two church campuses, dBA Acoustics’ Thomas Lorenzen specified a Shure ULX-D digital wireless system.
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PRETORIA, South Africa — For a new 6,500-seat CRC Christian Church here, Pastor AT Boshoff and his team turned to an engineer in the U.S., Armando Fullwood of Waves, for audio console advice. They followed is recommendation and are now using DiGiCo consoles provided by local distributor Tadco, including an SD Ten at FOH and a pair of SD8s — one at monitors and the other for the church’s broadcast studio.
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SHANGHAI, China — The partnership between Sennheiser China, which represents K-array, and the Shanghai Concert Hall includes the installation of K-array speakers within the 1,122-seat venue. The system includes nine white KP102 units, two KMT18P subwoofers and a KP102 and a KMT18P unit for front fill.
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MUMBAI, India — Ansata CS Pvt Ltd founder Leslie J Lean noted that the company, which was named a distributor of d&b audiotechnik’s products at Prolight+Sound in March, had briefed its staff and trained three engineers to support the brand with its seven offices throughout the subcontinent. As an extra measure “to reach out to our clients and end users as quickly as possible,” Lean said, the two companies arranged for d&b’s Gert Sanner to travel to each regional office.
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VALENCIA, Spain — For the finals game staged at the 9,000-capacity Fuente San Luis, Sonovideo provided an audio system capable of rising above the cheers of the capacity crowd supporting the home team, the Valencia Basket, as they took on the Unics Kazan (from Russia). The audio was flown above center court, with six LX-V8 arrays rigged on an aluminium frame.
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OSLO, Norway — The Internasjonalen (The International) club her turned to audio-provider Avon for a main stage loudspeaker system by VUE Audiotechnik. Avon owner Edgar Lien co-designed a system centered on VUE’s h- and a-Class components. Pictured here is designer Eddie Lien with Internasjonalen’s new VUE h-Class system.
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BUTTENHEIM, Germany — Salzbrenner Stagetec Audio Video Mediensysteme GmbH staged its first HighTecDay at the company’s headquarters here on May 15. The event was organized with an assist from Sennheiser and drew attendees from Germany, Austria and Switzerland from the stage, show, audio and communication sectors.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — U.K.-based Audient named M Works, based here, as its distributor for the Benelux (Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg) region. M Works is now handling products including Audient’s flagship ASP8024 to such recent additions as Audient’s USB interface – iD22 and 8-channel mic pre and ADC – ASP880. Pictured here, from left (back row) are M Works team members Sjoerd van der Knoop, Richard van Loo, Jochem van den Bos, Okke van Dijk, Matthijs Veen and (front row): Leon Padmos, Ramon van der Zalm
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RCF’s HDL15-AS is a compact, flyable high power subwoofer, designed to integrate seamlessly into a HDL 10-A flown array. The bass reflex design promises a deep, linear power response while the 3.5” voice coil vented design woofer offers the minimum of power compression.
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Eventide’s new version its H9 Control app for Windows, Mac, and iOS is now available. It includes a number of UI enhancements suggested by users and delivers a new algorithm to the H9: EQ Compressor for H9 (screen shot pictured here). The company also noted that the EQ Compressor is available free to H9 owners through June 20.
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SOCHI, Russia — Scott Willsallen, director of Auditoria Pty Ltd (Australia), was Audio Director and Designer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic games at Sochi’s 40,000-seat Fisht Olympic Stadium. Agorà of L’Aquila (Italy) supplied the audio gear, and DiGiCo consoles played a major part..
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SOUTH LONDON, U.K. — Following the advice of tour manager Mark Portlock and engineer Liam Halpin, U.K. R&B artist Joel Compass switched to DPA Microphones’ d:facto Vocal Microphone. Since then, the team has noticed an improvement in the singer’s vocal technique.
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