NASHVILLE — For this year’s CMA Music Festival, held at Riverside Park here June 6-9, Morris Light & Sound provided new NEXO STM line arrays, PS15s, RS18 Ray Subs, 4×4 NXAmps, 45 N-12 line monitors, Yamaha CL5 digital consoles and Rio3224 input/output boxes, all connected via a Dante network.The event drew a record 44,000 the first day and more than 162,000 for the four-day span.
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BEDFORDSHIRE, UK – Cadac has announced an expansion of its marketing team with the creation of dedicated brand development and brand marketing positions, and the appointment of Richard ‘Fez’ Ferriday and James Godbehear, respectively, to these positions (pictured here, L-R). Both had previously held similar positions at Midas/Klark Teknik.
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Bose Professional expands its RoomMatch array line with the RMS218 module that extends system response down to 25 Hz. The Baltic-birch plywood enclosure has two LF18 18-inch high-excursion, 4.5-inch voice coil, neodymium-magnet woofers in a V-baffle design with a large center port. An optional kit allows for suspended array applications. Rated frequency response is 30 Hz to 200 Hz (±3 dB); continuous power handling is 2,500 watts with 141 dB peak SPL’s.
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LONDON – DPA Microphones’ d:facto vocal microphones are being used at more of the live music venues here, including, recently, The Union Chapel in Islington and the Pizza Express Jazz Club on Dean Street in London’s SoHo. At the 900-capacity Union Chapel, head technician Les Mommsen credited the microphone for its “natural and detailed” sound. At the smaller Pizza Express Jazz Club, Luc Saint-Martin of Oneland Productions appreciated its “versatile, modular design.”
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NASHVILLE – PreSonus is hosting an open house event with a live music performance by Briana Tyson on July 11 at Ben’s Studio here. The event is from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and featured products include StudioLive AI-series PA speakers, StudioLive 32.4.2AI digital mixers, Studio One 2.6, the ADL 700 tube preamp/channel strip and Eris-series studio monitors.
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YONKERS, NY – Dan Rooney’s Café & Bar, a Pittsburgh, PA-based landmark since the early 1900s, has been recreated for the latest expansion of Empire City Casino, which is, itself, an outgrowth from the venerable Yonkers Raceway horse racing track here. The new pub’s sound system, installed by Pittsburgh-based Dobil Laboratories, includes gear made by D.A.S. Audio, including a LX-212A, Convert 12A and Road 12A components.
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EDISON, NJ — The Hotel and Event Production Services division of AVI-SPL has recently added 52 of the RCF TT052a dual 5” active two-way speakers into their rental department portfolio. A key selling point, along with performance, was the ultra-compact size of the units. A single road case can house six units plus pole mounts and other necessary audio gear in a 22 1/2”x30” total solution package.
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BEDFORDSHIRE, U.K. – Clair UK’s first outing with their new Cadac CDC Four compact digital live console, paired with the new Clair iMicro small format line array, allowed for plenty of toe-room for the recent Footstorm dance tour through the U.K. and Ireland for production company Accept Management, without sacrificing full-scale sonic performance.
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CHIBA, JAPAN — For the second year in a row, Comestock provided RCF to support Japan’s Big Beach Festival (BBF) at the Makuhari Seaside Park here. The BBF featured Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) and Basement Jaxx as headliners. Comestock provided active RCF TT+ Touring & Theatre Systems for three stages at the event.
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VOORHEES, NJ – Eastern High School, a regional district school here with 2,100 students, has a competition-sized gymnasium used for multiple indoor sports and other events. Eastern High, working with JD Sound and Video, upgraded its previous sound system with the Community R-Series model R.5 loudspeakers and iBOX model i215LVS subwoofers.
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DUBAI, UAE — Audio designer Joe Chidiac of Pulse Middle East was looking to create a focused, high energy dance floor sound field for Café Del Mar in Meydan Beach here. He found a solution in the form of a Turbosound Aspect TA-500 three-way point-source loudspeakers.
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DERRY/LONDONDERRY, Ireland — Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that Production House, Ireland’s leading supplier of professional audio systems, used an extensive RockNet real-time audio network to support the finale of “The Return of Colmcille” — a landmark production of the 2013 City of Culture celebrations in Derry-Londonderry.
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