TORONTO – Ryerson University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens now features a newly upgraded sound system that includes One Systems direct weather, high intelligibility loudspeakers. Located in downtown Toronto, Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens is the former Maple Leaf Gardens Arena, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1931 to 1999.
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SAN DIEGO, CA – AV systems integrator CCS Presentation Systems, Inc. recently upgraded the Murphy Canyon Chapel, located in the Aero Ridge community of the Murphy Canyon Military Housing complex here, with a comprehensive package of equipment from QSC Audio. The upgrade includes a Q-Sys Core 250i Integrated System Platform controlling KLA Line Array Loudspeakers and K Series K10 active monitors in the main chapel, with AcousticDesign surface and ceiling-mount speakers powered by ISA Series Amplifiers in a smaller chapel and a community room.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL – At InfoComm 2013, visitors to Meyer Sound at booth 1143 and demo room W203A will learn how its range of sound reinforcement, acoustic systems, and system monitoring and control solutions make exceptional listening experiences easier to achieve than ever before.
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NEW YORK – Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, which was nominated for seven Tony Awards and won two, features Tom Hanks in the lead role as tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, the actor’s Broadway debut. Sound designer Scott Lehrer, associate sound designer Drew Levy and production sound mixer David Stollings are working with a Masque Sound-supplied equipment package that included a Yamaha DM2000 (24-bit, 96-KHz) console, d&b audiotechnik speakers and Sennheiser wireless.
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NEW YORK — The Broadway musical Kinky Boots, pictured here, was honored with six Tony Awards this year, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Kinky Boots’ sound designer, John Shivers, also picked up the 2013 Tony for Best Sound Design of a Musical. The winner for Best Sound Design of a Play was Leon Rothenberg for The Nance. The awards were presented at Radio City Music Hall June 9.
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CUREPIPE, Mauritius – George V Stadium here recently approved the installation of One Systems Direct Weather, high-output loudspeakers. Prosound (Pty) Ltd. of Johannesburg, South Africa performed the site analysis and system design. Rentacolor Mauritius LTD, installed the loudspeakers. George V Stadium is the home of the island nation’s national football (soccer) team, nicknamed Club M.
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The Eminence PSD:3014 is a new 1.4” exit compression driver in the company’s line of HF products. It has a 100W continuous AES power rating, a 3″ voice coil and a recommended minimum crossover frequency of 800 Hz.
Read More »TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves Audio is seeing a growing number of up-and-coming live engineers turning to Waves Live tools, including Brett Orrison, FOH engineer for The Black Angels. For the band’s 2013 Indigo Meadow tour, Orrison is using Waves’ MultiRack SoundGrid System with two DSP servers and an Allen & Heath iDR64 that is equipped with an M-Waves card and the iLive T112 surface. He uses a Dell Precision Laptop to steer the SoundGrid DSP servers while multi-track recording with PreSonus Studio One.
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NEW YORK — For the new Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, sound designer Nevin Steinberg outfitted the cast with 30 DPA 4061 Omnidirectional Miniature wireless microphones. Steinberg chose the gear for its unobtrusive appearance and transparent sound quality.
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NAPLES, Italy — During the 96th Giro d’Italia, which began May 4 in Naples and concluded 3,405 kilometers later on May 26 in Brescia, Riedel provided host broadcaster RAI with MediorNet and RockNet networks to link the announce booth, finish line and remote production areas.
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Aviom, manufacturer of the iconic A-16II Personal Mixer and industry leader in personal mixing, announced that its new AN-16/i v.2 Input Module, which supports the company’s A360 Personal Mixer, is now shipping. The AN-16/i v.2 converts 16 line-level analog audio channels to a Pro16e A-Net digital stream
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Audinate announced that its new Dante Ultimo networking platform is now shipping. Ultimo is an integrated, cost-effective 13×13 mm chip, targeted for low-channel networked audio equipment. Ultimo extends Dante networking to a wide range of audio devices.
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