WILKESBORO, NC — Country music’s Alan Jackson and Merle Haggard and bluegrass icons Dr. Ralph Stanley and Ricky Skaggs were among the 130 acts over four days in late April for MerleFest 2014. As has been the case for the past 26 years, DiGiCo consoles processed much of the music emanating from the festival’s 13 stages. SE Systems provided the consoles.
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LONDON — Multi-instrumentalist Marcus Anderson, who has been playing saxophone with Prince’s band, the New Power Generation, for almost two years, recently released his fifth solo album, Style Meets Substance, featuring Anderson on a range of instruments performing original material that spans a variety of genres. Anderson has been using Harman’s AKG C519 miniature condenser microphone in the studio and on stage.
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Shure is now offering the DC 5900 F, a new flush-mounted discussion unit, to its DDS 5900 Digital Discussion System. Shure says the Shure DC 5900 F is first conferencing unit on the market to use optical sensing to automatically configure the unit’s functionality.
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SEOUL — Di Au Tech worked with Turbosound senior technical specialist Howard Smart on an installation of the company’s Flashline speakers at Vanguard, a mega-club that opened in Seoul’s Samsung District earlier this year.
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RCF’s L-PAD line of compact audio mixers promises a combination of power and flexibility, suited for use with genres ranging from jazz to rock along with a variety of venues.
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BELLE MAR, Mauritius — Rentacolor Mauritius LTD was called in to design the new system for The Lux Belle Mare resort on the east coast of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Dominique Hardy, technical director at Rentacolor Mauritius, provided One Systems Direct Weather loudspeakers for the project. Pictured here are two 112IM loudspeakers and two 118IM-Sub subwoofers.
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NEWPORT, WA — Sound engineer Bradley Johnson of KRF Audio, based here, owns his own DiGiCo gear and will typically bring it with him when touring in support of Megadeth. Both he and monitor engineer Dave Rupsch (pictured L-R, with DiGiCo’s SD10 at FOH) are relying on the brand for Megadeth’s performances around the world.
Read More »NEW YORK — Sound designer Ken Travis turned to DPA Microphones’ d:screet 4061 Omnidirectional Microphones to close-mic the entire cast of the staged musical, Aladdin, which opened recently on Broadway. The production’s orchestra is also equipped with d:dicate 2011C Twin Diaphragm Cardioid and d:vote 4099 instrument microphones.
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Kaltman Creations LLC has announced that, starting in June 2014, its Invisible Waves RF-Vue touch tablet RF analyzer will ship with a Dell Latitude 10-inch tablet and, for a limited time, all RF-Vue models will include the integrated RF-intermodPRO intermodulation software at no additional charge.
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NEW YORK — Sao, a new Brazil-themed restaurant in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, has been equipped with a new loudspeaker system from VUE Audiotechnik. Restaurant and club designer Kenny Fiesta was involved in the project, and after comparing different solutions, Fiesta opted for a system that includes six VUE i-6 powered two-way systems for the venue.
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Rational Acoustics released Smaart v.7.5, which includes significant feature additions and interface modifications along with important bug fixes. They include Smaart v.7.5’s new Target Curve feature (pictured here) and a Quick Compare feature for transfer function measurements.
Read More »McKEES ROCKS, PA — Northern Sound & Light (NSL), a pro audio and lighting dealer based in this Pittsburgh suburb, currently offers QSC Audio products including K Series, WideLine, KLA Series and power amplifiers.
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