SEATTLE, WA – For almost a century, the 5th Avenue Theatre has been a landmark in the Seattle and broader Northwestern regional arts community, and indeed a springboard for many Broadway productions over the years. The theatre recently upgraded its assistive listening devices with the latest ADA (American Disabilities Act) compliant systems from audio specialist Sennheiser.
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LIVERPOOL, UK — Adlib’s sales and installation division, based here, has supplied rental company Stagetex, based in Merseyside, U.K., with an L-Acoustics ARCS wide / focus (WIFO) sound system. The deal was coordinated for Adlib by Nick Turner. Stagetex’s Peter van Neste is pictured here (left) with Nick Turner.
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TORONTO, Ontario, Canada — Lawo North America Corporation, based here, named Don Bird VP, business development and marketing and Damian Fink product support manager. Based out of San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively, Bird (pictured here) and Fink (pictured below) will jointly support Lawo’s marketing and distribution channels throughout North America, with particular focus on the West Coast.
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MADISON, WI — The Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. has selected Madison as the 12th U.S. city for its “Any Given Child” program. The goal of the program is to establish a long-range arts education plan to reach every public school student in grades K-8. The multi-year effort will enable experts from the Kennedy Center to work with a panel of local citizens as they audit the resources currently available in the schools and plan for increased access to arts programs for every school and every child.
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RCF’s NXL 24-A is a full range active column speaker array system with 4 x 6” high power woofers and a 2.5” voice coil compression driver loaded from a waveguide on a 100° x 30° constant directivity horn. The amplifier delivers 1400 watts and is controlled by a DSP for crossover, equalization, phase alignment, soft limiting and speaker protections. Equalizations are available to operate with a single column or in pairs.
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Radial Engineering’s USB-Pro is a high-resolution stereo direct box designed to convert sound files from a laptop computer and seamlessly transfer them to a pair of balanced audio outputs to feed a PA, recording or broadcast mixing console.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland – For Athletissima, an international track and field competition at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise here, Swiss PA company Auditech provided its recently-acquired Allen & Heath Qu-16 compact digital mixer at FOH. The annual event draws top athletes, and several world records have been set during the games.
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FRAMINGHAM, MA – As a resource for system integrators, contractors and front-of-house engineers, Bose Professional Systems Division will be hosting demonstrations of their RoomMatch loudspeaker systems in live venues for the U.S., Canadian and Latin markets. Users have requested to audition RoomMatch systems in real-world situations, and Bose has responded with this series of exclusive regional demos showcasing RoomMatch loudspeakers, along with PowerMatch amplifiers and ControlSpace digital signal processing.
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POTTERS BAR, UK – Sean Karpowicz has joined Harman where he will serve as Product Manager for Soundcraft’s Si Series Mixing Consoles. Karpowicz comes to Soundcraft from VenueMagic, a show control software platform, where he was Marketing Director. Prior to this, Karpowicz served as Product Manager at Gemini, responsible for Pro Audio product design and management.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Grand Canyon University’s Antelopes men’s and women’s basketball teams joined the Western Athletic Conference this summer and upgraded to Division I, and university officials opted to upgrade the sound system in the GCU arena as well. They turned to Clearwing Productions’ Phoenix office, which provided two independent L-Acoustics ARCS WIDE and KARA loudspeaker systems for the 5,000-seat multipurpose venue.
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RCF’s HD 32-A uses a titanium dome, 3.0” voice coil compression driver for vocal clarity and sound projection. The 12” woofer promises an extremely linear response and a precise, deep low frequency control. With powerCON In/Out connectors, it is well suited for use by rental companies in small-PA FOH and high power monitor applications.
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NORCROSS, GA — Multi-campus Victory World Church (VWC), led since 2010 by lead worship pastor Montell Jordan, is relying on a trio of DiGiCo SD consoles linked via fiber backbone to meet the church’s multifaceted needs. Along with the main campus here, which draws 8,500 worshippers each weekend, other campuses are located in Kennesaw, Athens and Buford, GA.
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