NEW YORK, NY – Sennheiser will be offering its RF Wireless Sound Academy Seminar at the Musicians Union Local 802, 322 W 48th St., in New York City on Aug. 13. The seminar costs $199 and includes continental breakfast, full lunch, workshop materials, and a $50 rebate coupon good towards Sennheiser and Neumann products. Participants who complete the seminar will earn 6 RU CTS credits.
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NASHVILLE — Morris Light & Sound is supporting Kenny Chesney’s 46-date No Shoes Nation tour with a Nexo STM line array system that includes 74 M46 for mains, 74 b112 bass extensions, 48 s118 flown subs, 16 RS18 ground ray subs, 12 PS10s for front fills, 14 GEO S 1210s and two GEO S1230s, 22 NUAR amp racks and two Yamaha DME 64 digital mix engines with LAKE Mesa EQ cards for system tuning and console switching.
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BEIJING — For a rain-soaked concert that didn’t deter performers, crew and a crowd of 15,000 in Beijing’s Chaoyang Park, composer Tan Dun, pianist Lang Lang and the China National Symphony Orchestra relied on a Phoenix Audio-supplied Turbosound Flashline large-scale line array system. The theme of the concert was linked to the music that Tan Dun had composed for martial arts films.
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CLIFFSIDE, NC – Duke Energy’s Cliffside Steam Station dates back to the 1930s. It was renovated several times over the decades. One of the new projects to be fully-modernized was the office space and conference room, which incorporated a teleconferencing system that includes Symetrix’s SymNet Edge Dante network audio DSP, with four-channel AEC card providing acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction.
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WEBSTER, NY – Ashly Audio, longtime American manufacturer of professional audio signal processors, amplifiers, and end-user controllers, has named National Audio Systems (NAS) as its distributor for Australia.
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ANNAPOLIS, MD — The Naval Academy Chapel, dedicated in 1908 and remodeled in 1940, underwent an extensive restoration in 2009. To improve intelligibility and coverage within the 2,500-capacity chapel, which features a 121-foot-high dome and a 268-rank pipe organ, DFX Sound Vision recommended a design incorporating Community Entasys column line arrays.
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HOUSTON, TX — For the Free Press Summer Festival, which drew nearly 100,000 with 90 national and local artists performing on six stages in Eleanor Tinsley Park here June 1-2, LD Systems served as the primary audio, video and lighting provider. This year, LD Systems provided L-Acoustics K1 systems on the two largest stages, Mars and Saturn..
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DORTMUND, Germany — Westfalenstadion, also known as Signal-Iduna-Park, is the 65,718-seat home of Germany’s top soccer team in 2011 and 2012, Borussia Dortmund. RCF worked with ATEIS Germany and Fulfil engineering GmbH on a sound system upgrade that includes 14 RCF TTL 33A custom line array units..
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LONDON — The Wireless Festival, now in its ninth consecutive year, drew record crowds to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with headliners Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, will.i.am, Snoop Dog, A Tribe Called Quest, and Rita Ora. Britannia Row Productions provided a Turbosound Flashline PA system for the Pepsi Max Stage, which also saw appearances by Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah.
Read More »NILES, IL — On Aug. 1, 2013, Shure Inc. president and CEO Sandy LaMantia praised the efforts of Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) in helping to protect wireless microphone users from the loss of available spectrum by introducing H.R. 2911, “The Wireless Microphone Users Interference Protection Act of 2013.”
Read More »PARTRIDGE GREEN, UK – Turbosound, based here, named Sound House Company, Ltd. as its distributor in Japan. Sound House, which has developed an extensive dealer network in Japan, is already a distributor of Behringer-branded MI products. The company has close to 20 years experience in commercial audio and lighting.
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WOODLAND HILLS, CA — American Music & Sound named JMS Marketing as the new reps for Allen & Heath in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Based in Austin TX, JMS Marketing handles the Pro Audio/Video, Sound/Lighting Contractor and Musical Instrument markets.
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