Audio-Technica Installed Sound Support App for iOS Devices
Renkus-Heinz Names Jack Aragon New Rocky Mountain Region Rep
FOOTHILL RANCH, CA – Renkus-Heinz named Jack Aragon Marketing and Sales (J.A.M.S.) as the company’s new representatives for the Rocky Mountain region, including Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as southeast Idaho, eastern Montana, and El Paso, Texas. J.A.M.S., established in 2009, is led by Jack Aragon. The company specializes in professional audio, commercial audio and musical instrument sales.
Read More »Crestron Licenses Audinate Dante Media Networking Solution
PORTLAND, OR and ROCKLEIGH, NJ — Crestron announced that it has licensed Audinate’s Dante digital media networking technology. The licensing agreement enables Crestron to integrate Dante into any of its products.
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Cadac Names Soinua Pro Distributor in Spain and Portugal
LUTON, U.K. — Cadac named Soinua Pro as its new distributor for Spain and Portugal. Soinua Pro is located midway between Bilboa and San Sebastián in Spain’s Basque Autonomous Community.
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Brookside Community Church Relying on Countryman H6 Headset Mics
FORT WAYNE, IN – Live sound engineer Ryan “Ryno” Henderson helped Brookside Community Church here find a solution to its microphone woes. Ryno steered interim pastor Dr. Tiberius Rata and others toward Countryman’s H6 headset microphones.
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Bazelmans AVR Adds Meyer Sound LYON to Inventory
AMSTERDAM — Bazelmans AVR, a Dutch AV rental company, has invested in the Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system and become one of the first suppliers of the new product. Pictured here, from left, are Eric Mattijsen (AEM), Scott Gledhill (Meyer Sound), Roland Mattijsen (AEM), Aart Habraken (Bazelmans AVR) and Wiljan Bazelmans (Bazelmans AVR).
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Ashly Audio Assigns Bardy Hayes, Alex Schloesser to Asia Pacific Posts
ROCHESTER, NY — Ashly Audio assigned Bardy Hayes and Alex Schloesser of Global Marketing Management (GMM) to serve as the company’s sales manager and sales engineer, respectively, in the Asia-Pacific region. Pictured here, from left: John Sexton (Ashly), Bardy Hayes (APAC Sales Manager), Mark Wentling (Ashly), Alex Schloesser (APAC Sales Engineer) and Kelly Trader (APAC Order/Sales Admin).
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Show Report: Product Hits of Winter NAMM
ANAHEIM, CA — A total of 96,129 music and audio pros were registered for the 2014 edition of Winter NAMM to see the latest from 1,533 exhibiting companies. One of those attendees was FRONT of HOUSE editor George Petersen, who had a much easier time traveling to the show than others arriving from snow-blasted regions of the U.S. His show report, which is also featured in the Feb. 2014 issue of FOH Magazine, follows.
Read More »Sochi Olympics Venues Equipped with Salzbrenner Stagetec Gear
SOCHI, Russia — Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup announced that several venues used for the 2014 Winter Olympics here have installed the company’s technology.
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One Night in Lagos, Part 2
Part 1 of this anecdotal tale relating our experiences in Lagos, Nigeria (FOH, Jan. 2014, page 39) ended at the moment we discovered that the Mariah Carey production crew had become secondary players in a turf war between the Eko Hotel special events staff and an outside vendor. The conflict over which party could best provide the stage sound equipment and band gear had caused our production schedule to succumb as collateral damage. It was a struggle that the better-prepared hotel staff was most certainly going to win. The outside supplier was well intentioned but very much out of his depth — obviously under-experienced and woefully under-supplied.
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The Super Bowl Exemplifies Live Music’s Long Relationship with Sports
The halftime show at the Super Bowl has been a music extravaganza in recent years, one with its own set of cycles. After Janet Jackson’s 2004 “wardrobe malfunction,” we went into a wave of classic rock acts, including McCartney, Springsteen and The Who, followed by a round of hip-pop with Madonna, Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo Green. This year finds Bruno Mars the star of the halftime show, seemingly a continuation of the last two years’ trend with (only slightly) more testosterone.
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No Excuse for Poor Sound
Whether you’re a musician, a sound engineer or a major league baseball player, everyone has a bad day once in a while. But in these twenty-teens, technology has reached the point where there’s little excuse for bad sound. I just mixed a show at a major casino stop on the East Coast. Names and locations are withheld to prevent the guilty from personal injury and humiliation.
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