NASHVILLE — For Jason Aldean’s Burn It Down tour, engineers Chris Stephens (FOH, pictured here) and Evan Richner (MON, pictured below) are both using the new SSL Live console from Solid State Logic. Both credited the desk for its extensive feature set and sound quality.
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ASHEVILLE, NC — Moogfest, the electronic technology, art, science and music festival named for analog synth pioneer Bob Moog, took place here for five days in late April with performances at more than 10 venues. For audio reinforcement at US Cellular Center’s 2,431-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, which served as the festival’s primary stage, Thunder Audio provided its recently acquired L-Acoustics K2 loudspeaker system.
Read More »UNIONTOWN, OH — Woodsy’s Music Audio/Video’s Steve Etherton helped upgrade the sound system at the performing arts center used by Lake Local High School here. Etherton had long felt that the core of the school’s audio issue was lack of frequency coordination. A Shure BLX Wireless System met the school’s needs and budget.
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PILTON, U.K. — The main audio setup for the Pyramid Stage, a focal point at the annual Glastonbury Festival near here, will include Martin Audio’s MLA system provided by RG Jones Sound Engineering. Pictured here are images from last year’s festival. The 2014 festival is set for June 25-29.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA — The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts here has installed a new system based around Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeakers. Dave Grogan of Wilkes-Barre-based Effects Unlimited handled system design consultation and installation.
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LONDON — Theatre sound designer Mike Walker chose the Cadac CDC eight digital production console for the recent 50th anniversary revival of Oh What a Lovely War, in London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East. Cadac noted that the application served both as the new console’s musical theatre debut and as the highest-profile use of the digital desk to date. It also marked the first time Walker used a digital console on such an elaborate theatre production.
Read More »MILWAUKEE, WI — Clearwing Productions named Scott Wilson pro shop manager for its location here. Prior to Clearwing, Scott worked in sales at Avid Technologies for seven years. Before that, he was an instructor at Madison Media Institute in the Recording Department and helped manage retailer Nova Musik.
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ORLANDO — Alcorn McBride named Brian Macauto senior sales engineer. He was most recently regional sales manager (North America) for Vista Systems, where he handled outside sales, software/hardware training, system commissioning, trade show and technical support. At Alcorn McBride, Macauto will work with customers and provide pre-sales application support while also developing new project opportunities worldwid.
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BOGATA, Colombia — C. Vilar LTDA provided Adamson Systems gear for the 60,000 drawn to a late April One Direction concert at the Estadio el Campin here. The main FOH system included Energia line arrays, with a variety of Adamson loudspeakers in support roles. The concert kicked off the band’s “Where We Are” world tour.
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Cadac unveiled its V2.1 software update in the U.K. recently. By pressing the SELECT button on a VCA, users can now deploy the VCA group members on the console surface. Users can also switch between input-driven and mix-driven Fader Follow at a touch of the screen. It is also now possible to view and access single input channel contributions to multiple busses, or a single bus’ contributions from multiple inputs when in Fader-Follow mode.
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DOURO VALLEY, Portugal — Allen & Heath distributor Avitel, provided an Allen & Heath GLD digital system for the Casa da Cultura Mestre José Rodrigues auditorium here. The system includes a GLD-80 mixer plus AR2412 and AR84 remote I/O racks. Pictured here is sound engineer Nelson Martins with the GLD-80.
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ROCKY HILL, CT — For the 500-seat auditorium at Rocky Hill High School here, John Pizzoferrato of CMI Sound Systems provided an audio system upgrade that included two Community ENTASYS 220 loudspeakers, two Community VLF-208LV subwoofers, an Ashly DSP processor and and a pair of Ashly amplifiers while reusing the school’s existing mixer and microphones.
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