CHICAGO —Soundcraft’s “Mixing with Professionals” (MwP) series will breeze into the Windy City Oct. 16, hosted by Ken Newman, owner of Newman Audio, who serves as FOH engineer for Barry Manilow.
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LONDON — On the closing day of PLASA 2012, Midas gave one of its new VeniceU consoles to Will Jameson, director of the Lake of Stars arts festival, which has been held since 2004 along the shore of Lake Malawi in Africa.
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LOS ANGELES —Firehouse Productions helped Neil Diamond continue into his fifth decade of performing with new JBL VTX Series line arrays this year. The main arrays, with 16 VTX V25 elements per side, were complemented by VT4889, VT4888, VT4887 and VT886 elements and VT4880A subwoofers.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The acoustically-treated wall that has traditionally separated the worlds of live and recorded audio production has changed in recent years. One case in point is the amped-up emphasis AES is putting on live sound for its 133rd convention, set for Oct. 26-29, 2012 in Moscone Center.
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LONDON — In August, the Caffè Nero Artist of the Month was pop songwriter Jamie Abbott, who has traveled and performed all around the U.K., performing in as many as three locations per day. Accompanying him on the tour of Caffè Nero locations in August was bassist Tom Kenrick and K-array’s Blueline KB1, which proved well-suited for the duo’s on-the-go performance schedule.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. — Harman Professional named Nuno Sousa regional sales manager for Southern Europe. Sousa brings more than 25 years of experience in broadcasting and pro audio, having worked in recording studios, radio and video production companies and in distribution companies.
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FREMONT, MI — ElectroMedia Inc. specified gear from Grund Audio Design for the newly-built, $39.9M, 170,000-square-foot high school here. Along with geothermal wells for heating and cooling, the school has two gymnasiums. The multi-purpose main gym, pictured here, features 20 Grund Audio Design UB-16RN loudspeakers, augmented by four GT-LPB24C subwoofers.
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DORNACH, Switzerland — The Goetheanum, based here, is the global headquarters for Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner. Named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the original structure was designed by Steiner himself. Now featuring two performance halls with a total seating capacity near 1,500, the Goetheanum’s audio setup also now includes Allen & Heath iLive systems.
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TAYLOR, MI — Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), designed and installed a new sound system centered on Aero Series 2 loudspeakers from D.A.S. Audio at Metro South Church in the Detroit area. The non-denominational Christian church serves more than 1,500 people each weekend.
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CHESTER, PA — Widener University alumnus Art Kalemkarian designed a new Community Professional speaker system for the football stadium at his alma mater. The Leslie C. Quick Jr. stadium now has six WET Series W2-2W8 loudspeakers covering the home team’s bleachers, with a pair of R2-52Z long-throw loudspeakers, also located on the press box roof, for the visitor seating and playing field areas.
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CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY — Ryan Jackson of JCA Media LLC, who designed and installed the replacement sound system for Campbellsville Baptist Church, brought in a Metrix system from Adamson Systems Engineering. The two-array setup could be fine-tuned to cover both the 900-capacity church’s main sanctuary seating and balcony areas. The speakers are powered by Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q amplifiers, and an Allen & Heath iLive digital system, Audio Technica 5000 Series wireless receiver and DPA instrument mics round out the audio upgrade.
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SANTA ANA, CA — Recent staging failures, such as this year’s Radiohead stage collapse in Toronto that left one dead and three injured could have serious ramifications for the live event industry, according to Scott Carroll, executive vice president and program director of Take1 Insurance, part of the U.S. Risk Insurance Group, and a specialist insurance provider for the entertainment industry. The Toronto event could renew calls for stricter regulations for stage construction and engineering, potentially convincing less experienced insurance providers to abandon the industry.
And with fewer providers, there is less competition, which could lead to higher premiums.
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