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Thunder Audio Provides 90+ JBL VTX Line Array Elements for Detroit’s Movement Festival

Detroit's 2013 Movement Festival crew included, from left, Andy Combs, President, Innovative Audio Sales; Sam Fotias, Director of Operations, Movement Electronic Music Festival; Jason Huvaere, Festival Director, Movement Electronic Music Festival; Paul Owen, Vice President, Thunder Audio; Tony Villarreal, President, Thunder Audio; Mike Fotias, Production Manager, Movement Electronic Music Festival.

Thunder Audio Provides 90+ JBL VTX Line Array Elements for Detroit’s Movement Festival

DETROIT, MI — Thunder Audio provided a sizable JBL VTX-based system for the Red Bull Music Academy main stage at the Movement Electronic Music Festival here over Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27. The soundco provided more than 90 JBL VTX Series line array elements for the event, including VTX 25 full-size line arrays, V25s, S28 subwoofers, V25 line array elements, G28 subs, JBL VerTec VT4888 midsize line array elements and VT4888s. Pictured here are, from left, Andy Combs, Innovative Audio Sales; Sam Fotias and Jason Huvaere, Movement; Paul Owen and Tony Villarreal, Thunder Audio; and Mike Fotias, Movement.

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Yamaha Training Sessions Set for Phoenix and California

BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars (YCATS) will hold training sessions in Phoenix, Arizona July 16-18, 2013 consisting of M7CL for Beginners, M7CL for Advanced Users, Yamaha CL Operational Training, and Digital Audio Networks for Engineers. The YCATS training team will also host several training sessions at the Buena Park, California headquarters on July 24 and 25 for those interested in Yamaha CL Operational Training and Digital Audio Networks for Engineers.

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Shure Microflex

Shure Microflex Wireless Microphone System

Shure Incorporated announced that Microflex Wireless Microphone Systems are now shipping. With a modern, low-profile design, Microflex Wireless promise to seamlessly blend into diverse room settings across a wide variety of market segments, including corporate, academic, government and financial environments.

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Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system deployed by Solotech at the 2013 Montreal International Jazz Festival

Meyer Sound, Solotech Support Montreal International Jazz Festival

MONTREAL – The massive Montréal International Jazz Festival 2013, a 10-day event, is now in full swing. Running from June 28 to July 7, it includes more than 1,000 concerts featuring close to 3,000 artists performing in a multitude of indoor concert venues and free outdoor stages. Meyer Sound, in cooperation with Solotech, has been named the Official Sound Reinforcement Sponsor of the festival. Solotech is providing festival-wide audio support using a variety of Meyer Sound Systems, including a LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system for the festival’s largest stage, Scène TD.

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Philip Reynolds with Focusrite RedNet gear used for the Killers Battle Born tour

The Killers Tour with Focusrite RedNet Gear

KIEV, Ukraine – Philip Reynolds, systems engineer for the Killers’ current Battle Born world tour, has been using a RedNet 1 eight-channel A-D/D-A and RedNet 4 eight-channel mic preamp at FOH to keep the audio within the digital domain for as long as possible before conversion to analog — A-D conversion takes place side-stage as soon as the mics plug into the stagebox. It’s just one example of how the company’s technology is being put to use to improve live sound.

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RiverEdge Park NEXO GEO T

Gand Helps River Edge Park Kick Off Opening Concert Season

BUENA PARK, CA — Gand Concert Sound helped River Edge Park kick off its first season by providing a NEXO Geo T sound system along with Yamaha PM5D-RH and M7CL-48 consoles for the opening weekend. The 30-acre park has a 10-acre Music Garden, with its John C. Dunham venue seating 8,500 including the lawn area. With the size of the venue, the NEXO Geo T sound system gave even coverage from the front to the back allowing audiences to enjoy the summer season.

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Ontario Ministry of Labor Issues New Safety Guidelines for Event Structures

TORONTO — The Ontario Ministry of Labor issued new guidelines on the safe use of event structures for live performances on June 19. They include recommendations for appropriate structural design and materials, correct positioning on the site, ground conditions and foundations, proper planning and control of work practices, ongoing inspection of the finished structure during use and the development of an Operations Management Plan (OMP) that includes weather monitoring and emergency procedures.

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NEXO Modular Line Array

Capital Sound Innovates With NEXO STM For Pet Shop Boys

LONDON – Electric due The Pet Shop Boys have received rave reviews for the first two dates of their 2013 Electric Tour. Capital Sound Hire deployed its NEXO STM system for the shows in London and Manchester, the largest they have undertaken to date, using the first three-wide configuration of the modular line array, requested by FOH engineer Holger Schwark.

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