EAST LANSING, MI — Anthony James Partners and Pro Media/UltraSound designed and installed a new sound reinforcement system for Michigan State University’s Spartan Stadium. Apart from fills, just six Danley Jericho J3s covers the stadium, enabling announcements to be heard above the considerable noise generated by 80,000 cheering fans.
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LONDON — Forty years after Jesus Christ Superstar opened at London’s West End, a touring production of the latest revival for the musical headed out in late 2012 to arenas throughout the U.K. Sound engineer Roger Lindsay used a Midas XL8 to mix the musical’s sound at the FOH position.
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STEWARTSTOWN, PA — Stage Masters renovated the audio system used for the 300-capacity social hall operated by the Eureka Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Company here. The room, which gets rented for meetings, wedding receptions and other events, now features a system that includes Ashly’s ne24.24M processor along with Shure wireless microphones and Pure Resonance SD4 Lay-In 2×2 drop ceiling speakers powered by an Ashly ne4250.70 amplifier.
Read More »TEMPE, AZ — Benny Benassi’s recent North American tour, dubbed the Rough Road Bus Tour, may have presented the Italian DJ/producer with desert landscapes far from his native Italy, but the audio gear aboard his bus was from RCF, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy — which also happens to be Benassi’s home town.
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Behringer notes that its new, eight-model line of Xenyx QX Series mixers incorporate custom-designed FX engines from Klark Teknik with 32 studio-grade presets, dual addressable parameters, Tap function and storable user settings, plus “wireless-ready” integration with Behringer’s upcoming ULM Series digital wireless microphones.
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HERNING, Denmark — The 2012 edition of the Giro d’Italia bicycle stage race started off not in Italy, but in the middle of Denmark. But if that posed a logistical challenge for event organizers, another Italian export served as a solution, as far as the audio system to announce the winners of each of three stages was concerned. K-array and its Danish distributor MAVT provided a system centering on K-array’s RedLine 402.
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MARCOUSSIS, France — L-Acoustics named David Cooper regional sales manager for Asian markets including China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. Cooper has gained experience in sales and marketing working for a number of professional audio manufacturers, notably in the Asia Pacific region. In his new role, he will support L-Acoustics’ distribution and sales efforts in the region.
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ARLINGTON, TX — Fielder Road Baptist Church, based here, has advanced AV systems along with an auditorium that seats 3,800. The church also holds two worship services each Sunday in the auditorium of a middle school in an area of Arlington with a large Hispanic population. One service is in English, the other in Spanish. Sound Productions worked with the church staff to support those efforts with gear including an Allen & Heath GLD mixer.
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI — Acoustics By Design and Advanced Lighting and Sound designed and installed the sound system for the multi-use, 600-seat Berman Center for the Performing Arts, located within the Jewish Community Center. The gear includes Renkus-Heinz speakers, Crown amps and Yamaha mixing consoles. The Renkus-Heinz setup includes left and right arrays of two ST4R three-way tri-amped loudspeakers. CFX212M two-way systems at the rear of the hall act as delays or provide separate coverage, depending on the facility’s configuration.
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NASHVILLE — ATK Audiotek and Music Mix Mobile supported the 46th Annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, which was broadcast live on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena here Nov. 1. The crew included producers Tom Davis and Paul Sandweiss, FOH engineers Patrick Baltzell and Rick Shimer and monitor engineers Tom Pesa and Jason Spence, with M3’s John Harris and Jay Vicari handling the broadcast music mix. They relied upon microphones and wireless gear provided by Audio-Technica, Sennheiser and Shure.
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GLENVIEW, IL — Frank Luppino Jr., founder of Marketing Insights, head of marketing for Seeburg, a music and vending equipment manufacturer, and an industry journalist who covered NAMM for Billboard Magazine in the 1940s before serving as Billboard’s associate publisher, died Nov. 10, 2012 at age 90.
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Los Angeles, CA – Roland Systems Group previews the Roland M-200i, a compact mixing solution for those who want the flexibility and mobility of comprehensive iPad control fused with the precision of a professional digital mixing console. The M-200i makes its debut at the InterBEE show in Tokyo, Japan on November 14, 2012. The physical console features a 32-channel architecture with 17 motorized faders, 8 AUX, 4 Matrix, 8 DCA’s, 24 physical inputs and 14 outputs. In addition to the physical inputs the M-200i can mix in audio sources from the USB ports via computer or flash key.
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