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Adlib Supports Lana Del Rey U.K./Europe Tour with L-Acoustics K1
LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Technical solutions provider Adlib has been supplying singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey with an L-Acoustics K1 sound system for her ongoing tour of the U.K. and Europe.
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Groove Dining Group Utilizes Tannoy for West Palm Beach Restaurant
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The Choice of Tannoy’s VX Series Loudspeakers for Fuku Restaurant’s audio system was driven primarily by the requirements of the concept created by Groove Dining Group President, Paul Ardaji “It’s an upscale Pan-Asian restaurant based on a very serious, food-driven concept,” Ardaji explained. “We also wanted to be taken seriously as a music/entertainment destination where you can listen to world-class DJs spin. Music creates energy and we wanted to ensure we had an amazing sound system for dinner and late night, but often, those are different kinds of systems.”
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Festival Momentum Continues as Insomniac Gears Up for EDC Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Along with 2013’s double-weekend sellouts for the Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March and Coachella in April, the Electric Daisy Carnival, set for June 21-23, is also due to set a new attendance record, with Insomniac Events reporting the sale of 345,000 tickets — 115,000 per night — up from total ticket sales of 320,000 last year.
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The Big Show
You can call it “The Big Show,” or perhaps “The Main Event,” and for a great many pros in the sound reinforcement industry, all eyes and ears will be on Orlando for InfoComm 2013. This year, the convention kicks off its conference program on June 8, with the not-to-be-missed exhibit floor opening its doors on June 12. The audio demo rooms begin a day earlier, on June 11, giving attendees more time to focus on actually hearing products in a live and up-close environment.
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Lectrosonics Details Aspen Certified Dealer Program
RIO RANCHO, NM – Lectrosonics recently detailed the requirements for its Aspen Certified Dealer Program, which was launched in mid-February 2013. Lectrosonics’ Aspen Series processors manage a variety of functions such as signal routing, automixing, and other audio tasks for a multitude of sources—often in a fully automated, unattended environment.
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Grund Audio Design ACX Series Loudspeakers
Grund Audio Design’s ACX series has five low-cost MDF-enclosure models designed to handle medium-size, 200- to 400-seat venues. The series includes the two-way ACX-2 ($339 MSRP) and ACX-5 ($379) with 12- or 15-inch woofer and 1-inch HF driver on a 90° by 40° rotatable horn, with handles and pole mount. (Flyable versions are available.) A companion ACX-8S ($499) 18-inch, 400W-handling subwoofer and ACX-2M ($339)/ACX-5M ($379) wedge monitor versions of the main cabinets are also offered. All are unpowered and feature Speakon connectors..
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Masque Sound Supports “The Nance” on Broadway
NEW YORK—When Sound Designer Leon Rothenberg was tasked with reproducing the post-vaudeville burlesque scene of the 1930s for the new Broadway play, The Nance, he turned to Masque Sound. Rothenberg also worked with Danny Erdberg, Liz Coleman and Marc Salzberg on challenges that ranged from the need to accurately portray vaudeville – which was originally performed without sound reinforcement – and to give the audience the impression of being with the characters “backstage.”
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BottleRock Napa Valley Festival
For four days in May (9 to 12), 26 acres on the grounds at the Napa Valley Expo fairgrounds in the city of Napa, CA, were transformed into a completely different kind of festival experience. Forget the dusty, crowded fields of many huge tribal rock gatherings. While basking in the glow of the sun that made this area into one of the world’s great wine regions, BottleRock Napa Valley festival attendees could enjoy an amazing culinary experience (supplied by world-class restaurateurs, 60 vintner partners and artisan microbrewers) while taking in performances by some of today’s hottest musical performers and comedians. Very civilized, indeed.
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Stadiums and Sports Facilities
Audio installations and upgrades within large sports facilities present sound designers with several challenges, starting with scale — not just the vast, open-air or cavernous spaces, but the challenge of delivering an acceptable listening experience to everyone occupying all those seats and synchronizing the audio with today’s big video screens. Reverberation and intelligibility are huge challenges, particularly for enclosed spaces. Another significant factor that has to be considered is the exuberance of the fans themselves, and the need for the P.A. system to be heard above crowd noise that can peak at 105 dB or more. Last but not least are the challenges of getting the entire installation performed correctly, safely, on time and on budget, when those two invaluable commodities — time and money — are so often in scarce supply.
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Kaltman Creations: Innovations in Wireless
Great things sometime spring up out of humble beginnings. And a good example of that is Kaltman Creations, a business that began in 2006 to market the Kaltman Cable Coiler™, a device to speed the coiling of microphone cables after a performance. Yet early on, company founder Mark Kaltman, a musician and studio/touring engineer who also held positions at various pro audio and broadcast companies, including Klotz Digital, Aeta Audio, Denon and Sabine — recognized a growing need in the industry. He applied his keen entrepreneurial sense to eventually develop a line of RF and EMC test and measurement devices that provided practical and cost-effective wireless solutions at the right time and place.
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