NASHVILLE — Devin Malone, a multi-instrumentalist currently touring as a guitarist with country artist Hunter Hayes, has a pedalboard full of Radial gear, including the company’s PZ-DI, ProRMP, Twin-City ABY and JDI Duplex.
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BOSTON — Created by a production team led by producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan of Riverdance, Heartbeat of Home fuses Irish, Latin and Afro-Cuban dance styles of dancing. Production RF Engineer Amir Carmel, who manages the production’s wireless needs, has been relying upon Shure wireless mics and in-ear monitors. The touring production has been using 49 channels of UHF-R bodypacks and 16 channels of PSM1000 in-ears.
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NASHVILLE – “Playin’ Possum! The Final No Show – A Tribute to George Jones” was recently held at the Bridgestone Arena here and featured a Who’s Who of country music luminaries. Creative Audio supported the event, making use of a JBL audio system from Harman that included more than 100 VTX and VerTec line array loudspeakers.
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ASPEN, CO — For the 2014 Winter X Games, staged here Jan. 23 to 26, Ed Johnson, owner of Ed Johnson Audio used a Soundcraft Vi1 digital console from Harman. The console had benefits for both the attending crowds and those viewing the televised event from afar.
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German-based manufacturer Sommer Cable has expanded SYSBOXX line of modular housing systems for the entertainment and installation markets. Encompassing the SYSFLOOR, SYSBOARD and SYSPANEL model names, the line now includes more than 50 different sheet steel modules for various connectors and many connector modules with quick connection technology for AF, AES/EBU, DMX and network signals may be used in all models of the line.
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NASHVILLE – One Systems, Inc. named Secom as its sales representative firm in the Southeast. Secom, led by Ed Wolfe (pictured here) is also known as Southeastern Sales, Inc. and was founded in 1965. Mike Torlone, One Systems’ U.S. sales & marketing manager, made the announcement.
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LAS VEGAS — Fatigued runners looking to focus on something besides their own aches and pains had the entire visual spectacle of the Las Vegas strip for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon which took place here last November. Other welcome distractions included sneaker-clad Elvi, glitzy showgirls and 25 bands on 19 stages. AV Vegas once again supported the event in 2013, this time with Harman’s Crown I-Tech HD amplifier-powered JBL VTX line arrays at the starting line.
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LIVONIA, MI — Thunder Audio Inc., based here, is supporting the needs of Tyler Perry’s touring musical stage production, “Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned,” with an RCF system that includes 28 TTL55-A Line Array Modules and 4 TTL36-AS subwoofers. The gear was chosen for its ability to support the production’s needs for both spoken dialogue and songs.
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SARASOTA, FL — To improve upon the audio system that had been used since their 250,000-square-foot facility opened here in 2007, Church of Hope turned to Fort Myers-based Tech-Tronics, which replaced the existing LCR and delay clusters with simple left and right hangs of eight VUE Audiotechnik al-4 elements per side. Two VUE V4 Systems Engines provides power and processing for the line arrays. The church’s existing subs were retained for low frequency support.
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LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International added an L-Acoustics’ KARA system to its arsenal of audio gear that gets put to use for a wide variety of events staged at more than a dozen resort properties along the Las Vegas Strip. MGM Resorts production supervisor Shad Groverland says the purchase is part of the company’s strategy to make use of more of the gear it already owns between its properties rather than rent gear from an outside vendor.
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Gator Cases and JBL Cases announced that the new custom fit PRX700 series of cases has joined the companies’ JBL Flight Cases range. Available in 3 sizes, the new PRX700 Series Flight Cases provide a custom fit for the PRX712, PRX715, and PRX718XLF speakers.
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DELTONA, FL — For Deltona High School’s 975-seat theater here, Dan Lee of Signature Systems Florida recommended a new loudspeaker system and a modern DSP to replace the theater’s analog signal processing equipment. Lee also suggested that the school replace their aging analog mixer with a new Allen & Heath GLD digital mixer. The school is now using a GLD-80 Mixer and AR2412 Mixrack combination.
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