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Symetrix Names Craig Richardson VP of Global Sales
SEATTLE — Symetrix named industry veteran Craig Richardson vice president of Global Sales. Prior to Symetrix, Richardson was vice president of A/V Integrator Market Development with Polycom. Prior to that, he was vice-president and general manager of Polycom’s Installed Voice Business for many years.
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BottleRock Napa Valley Festival Gets Wireless Assist from PWS
NAPA, CA — The inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley Festival, a five-day event featuring 80 music and comedy acts along with top-quality food and wine, got its start May 9 with a wireless assist from Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) and its frequency coordination services. The event drew some 200,000 attendees.
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Riedel Opens Offices Serving Benelux, Australian Markets
WUPPERTAL, Germany —Riedel Communications opened a new office in Hilversum, Netherlands (near Amsterdam), which will serve the Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg markets (Benelux). Riedel has also opened a new office in South Sydney, Australia.
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Rio’s Nova Igreja da Barra Using K-Array Gear
RIO de JANEIRO, Brazil — The evangelical Nova Igreja da Barra church here is noted for services featuring rock bands and prayer through music. The church’s sound engineer, Wagner Pedretti, got acquainted with K-array gear at AES Brasil in 2012 and has since adopted the gear for use at the church.
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Texas PAC Combines Several Halls into One with Meyer Sound Constellation
MANSFIELD, TX — Charles Bonner of BAi, LLC (Austin, TX) and acoustician Andrew Miller worked with Dr. Russell Sanders, director of fine arts for the school district here, on a Meyer Sound Constellation system that would overcome acoustic challenges within the multi-use Cunningham Performance Hall of the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts.
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It’s That Season Again
Every season has its distinct harbingers or signs of change. Most of us are familiar with the multihued colors of fall leaves, the first snowfall of winter (except in Las Vegas), the flowers of spring and the sizzling heat of summer barbeques. Equally important — if not more so — is the arrival of the sound season, which traditionally kicks off with school graduations.
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Mixing Bon Jovi’s “Because We Can – The Tour”
Definitely one of the hardest working bands in the business, quintessential American rockers Bon Jovi kicked off their 2013 “Because We Can” tour to a long string of packed SRO arenas, starting Feb. 10 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Named for the main single pull from the band’s current What About Now CD, “Because We Can” is perhaps Bon Jovi’s most ambitious live undertaking to date. The tour is appearing on five continents, including two early May dates in South Africa, as the band leaps up to a extended series of summer stadium shows, including a brief return to the States for five stadium shows in July before heading to Brazil and Australia later this year.
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Headworn Microphones
Over the years, headworn microphones have evolved from clunky, low-fi affairs into lightweight, nearly invisible transducers capable of serious audio quality that can equal or best many handheld mics. Once mainly relegated to singing drummers and keyboardists, today’s headworn mics are more frequently becoming the choice of lead vocalists, classical soloists, live theatre performers, as well as for singers and spoken word in houses of worship applications.
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Long a regional player in Western Canada, KiAN Concert Sound Services has stepped up to play ball by investing in a Meyer LEO system. This because nothing other than a Meyer system will do, according to company president Mark Reimann.
Heck, he didn’t even have to listen to LEO system before he bought it.
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Subwoofer Arrays in the Real World
Over the past two years of FRONT of HOUSE, we have covered substantial ground with respect to subwoofers. Whether on the specifics of setting up a basic cardioid array or on how to design your own vented box, we have presented several nuts and bolts articles on the ever-important bottom-end that keeps sound reinforcement exciting.
This installment is very much in keeping with the previous practical articles on subwoofers. I am suppressing my inner egghead tendencies towards discussing topics like “phaser summation in the far-field,” or “radiation impedance,” and instead will look at a number of subwoofer configurations as they were implemented in the field of real gigs. We will briefly overview each configuration and discuss the implementation, and the goals behind the implementation.
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Solid State Logic’s LIVE console
The word is out. At last month’s Musikmesse/Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt (see report), Solid State Logic, a leading manufacturer of studio consoles and processing tools, has launched “Live” — its first console designed for sound reinforcement applications. This is definitely big news, but hardly the first time a studio-oriented manufacturer has entered the live console market, with notable examples being the Avid VENUE and PreSonus StudioLive series.
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