SAN PIERO A SIEVE, Italy — K-array named Klaus Hausherr product specialist for its concert series. Hausherr brings more than 30 years of experience to his new role, most recently serving as a sound engineer for large scale live events throughout the Italian peninsula and beyond.
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HANOVER, Germany – Oliver Voges is among the sound engineers turning to Waves plug-ins to support live shows, including major festivals, live TV events and a roster of artists including Faith No More, Deftones, Tangerine Dream, David Copperfield and Sarah Brightman. Most recently, for German rapper Casper, Voges has been using Waves MultiRack SoundGrid with Waves SoundGrid Server One to run Waves plugins on a Yamaha CL5 Digital Mixing Console.
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DETROIT — Acoustics By Design, the lead AV consultant on a project that transformed underused 12,000-seat Cobo Center here into a facility better suited to the needs of the North American International Auto Show, opted for a system that includes Danley Sound Labs SM-60F full-range loudspeakers and Danley TH-115 subwoofers.
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SELANGOR, Malaysia — Clef Productions Sdn Bhd owner Alvin Koh, a user of DiGiCo’s original D5 consoles before adopting the company’s SD Series consoles, used DiGiCo’s SD10 at FOH for a major production titled Anuar Zain’s Three Decades of, Music, Love and Passion. The concert, featuring the singer famed for also serving as a steward for Malaysian Airlines, filled 8,000-capacity Stadium Melawati on Feb. 16.
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MONTEBELLUNA, Italy – Leading Technologies, a distributor of Harman Professional products, helped the owners of an architecturally significant industrial building convert the structure from its historical use for drying tobacco to a new purpose – the site for the recently opened Mattorosso Restaurant & Live Bar. Although the building itself was not designed with acoustics in mind, Harman components help the site work as a performance venue.
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The new SBH-10 “Skinny Big Horn” represents Danley Sound Laboratories’ entry into the column speaker market. It promises to combine the aesthetic benefits of a column speaker with fidelity, superior pattern control, no spurious lobes, and no requirement for complicated signal processing.
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Yamaha’s R Remote software, a standalone application for use with the company’s R Series input/output rack units, gives users remote control of R Series Rio3224-D, Rio1608-D and Ri8-D rack unit head amplifiers directly from a computer. With R Remote, a live recording system can be created with just R Series I/O racks and a computer running Nuendo Live or similar DAW software. Combined with the I/O racks, R Remote can be used with consoles that up until now have not been able to support remote head amp control, such as the 02R96 or 01V96i.
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Flare Audio’s SM15 Stage Monitor is designed to help live music venues optimize stage space. The compact (384mm x 595mm x 421mm) and lightweight (28kg) units are designed with 15″ and 1″ drivers capable of producing ample power (Max SPL of 133.5dB) for a wide array of applications.
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CAD Audio has added the new AS22 and AS16 to its growing line of Acousti-shield stand mounted acoustic enclosures.
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SYDNEY – Audio Brands Australia, based in North Rocks, a Sydney suburb, named Jeff Shoesmith sales engineer. Prior to Audio Brands Australia, Shoesmith worked with companies including The PA People, Jands and Hills SVL during his 25-year career serving Australia’s audio and AV integration markets.
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ANAHEIM, CA – At the Winter NAMM 2014 show, CAD Audio awarded Musician’s Friend with its Dealer of the Year Award for 2013. t the Winter NAMM Show. Pictured here, from left, are Bob Durkee, Merchandising Manager and Jonathan Eggert, Inventory Manager, Musician’s Friend; Brig Carr, President, CAD Audio; Chris Tso, VP of Merchandising, Musician’s Friend; Tony O’Keefe, VP of Sales & Marketing, CAD Audio; Rob Impala, Merchandising Manager, Ryan Genest, Merchandising Specialist, and Gene Joly, President, Musician’s Friend.
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