STAFFORD, VA — This year’s holiday services at Ebenezer United Methodist Church here were enhanced with a new Yamaha CL5 digital console purchased from Irving, TX-based Sound Productions. The church, which offers traditional and contemporary services within its 500-seat sanctuary, also purchased two Yamaha RIO input/output racks in time for its annual holiday productions.
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NEW YORK — Firehouse Productions provided Harman’s JBL VTX Series line arrays powered by Crown I-Tech HD Series programmable amplifiers for 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief. The Dec. 12 fundraiser for the Robin Hood Relief Fund, which took place in Madison Square Garden, featured Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Roger Waters, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, The Rolling Stones and many others.
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FALLBROOK, CA — The Fiber Optic Association (FOA), an international non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting professionalism in fiber optics through education, certification and standards, has issued a video on the dangers of counterfeit Cat-5 cabling.
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NEW YORK — This year’s Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center in New York City was televised nationally on NBC and featured performances by Rod Stewart, Cee Lo Green, Mariah Carey, Trace Adkins and Tony Bennett. As in years past, Production Resource Group (PRG) supplied a total of 24 Harman’s JBL VerTec VT4887ADP powered compact line array elements, installed on lifts to cover 49th and 50th Streets on the east and west sides of Rockefeller Center.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Southwest Christian High School (SWCHS) recently hired Audio Video Electronics (AVE) to upgrade their aging sound system. AVE installed the new system, which includes an Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital console, just in time for the high school’s production of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.
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STAMFORD, CT — Harman International Industries Inc., based here, announced that Copenhagen, Denmark-based Aktieselskabet Schouw & Co., corporate parent of Aarhus, Denmark-based Martin Professional, agreed to sell Martin to Harman for EUR 110 million (currently $146 million in U.S. dollars). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in Q1 2013.
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — The Carnival festival tradition has expanded from Trinidad and Tobago on the two days prior to Ash Wednesday to other dates on the calendar, and locations in the U.S. Earlier this year, the festive celebrations of Caribbean culture took place here, and also in Brooklyn, NY and Miami Gardens, FL with NYC-based Advanced Audio, Miami-based Master Sound Productions and D.A.S. Audio all playing a key role.
Read More »ANAHEIM, CA — The 2013 NAMM Show, set to take place at the Anaheim Convention Center here Jan. 24-27, has expanded beyond its traditional focus and now counts Harman, Avid, Chauvet, Bosch, Sennheiser, Shure, Korg, Tascam, Yamaha, American DJ and Behringer among its exhibitors. The conference will also include a wide array of training and demonstration opportunities for live entertainment technology professionals.
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HAMBURG — Rocky, a musical production produced by Stage Entertainment, Sylvester Stallone and the boxers Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko, made its debut here in mid-November with support from Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup technologies for sound reinforcement and monitoring, including Aurus and Crescendo consoles linked to a Nexus network.
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MAIDSTONE, U.K. — For No Saints’ Wonderland nightclub, which opened here on a site formerly occupied by Liquid, Mark Damon of Essex-based Cosmic Electronics provided a sound system using RCF’s Acustica series gear including four pairs of the new H1312 covering the dance floor.
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JUNO BEACH, FL — Florida Power & Light (FPL), which often uses the atrium at its headquarters here for small and large assemblies, recently contracted with Peerson Audio, Jupiter, FL, for something more than a temporary, speaker-on-stick solution. Allen Peerson installed QFlex steerable array loudspeakers from Tannoy.
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GAINESVILLE, GA — Danley Sound Labs named Jonathan “JP” parker national sales manager. Parker, who will be responsible for Danley’s loudspeakers, subwoofers, and supporting processors and amplifiers, has more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience with companies including Bose, Crown, TOA and Martin Audio. He reports to Danley president Mike Hedden.
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