Kaltman Creations’ RF-id SOLO (pictured left) and RF-id STATION (right), introduced to the company’s Invisible Waves line of products at InfoComm12, are designed to help users identify wireless device frequencies. Both key in on wireless transmissions as near-field frequency counters, one as a handheld device and the other in a self-contained case for multiple wireless devices.
Read More »TORONTO — Staging elements for a June 16 Radiohead concert at Downsview Park partially collapsed, with falling structural elements pinning and killing drum tech Scott Johnson, 33, at the scene. Another crew member was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening head injury, and two others were treated at the scene.
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OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser recently named Andrew Kornstein House of Worship Market Development Manager. Kornstein will be responsible for identifying and driving opportunity for Sennheiser in the U.S.-based H.O.W. market. He will report to Dawn Birr, vice president sales & marketing, Integrated Systems, Sennheiser.
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NEW ORLEANS — To revitalize the historic, 65-year-old Joy Theater in New Orleans, PSX Worldwide Audio Visual recently installed a new audio system featuring Harman’s JBL VerTec line arrays.
Read More »WOODINVILLE, W — Mackie noted recently that its DL1608 Digital Live Sound Mixer with iPad Control, unveiled earlier this year, will soon be available, and for anyone seeking more information on the product, they can turn to the company’s latest episode in its DL1608 video podcast series.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — If the architecture of Oklahoma City’s First Christian Church, dubbed “the First Christian Church of Tomorrow” is any indication, the future holds lots of acoustic design challenges — and plenty of opportunities for companies like AVL Systems Design, which helped the church’s overcome those challenges with a new sound system centered on Iconyx from Renkus-Heinz.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Sennheiser’s distributed brand, K-array, is expanded with the company’s launch of several new product lines, including Redline, Kobra, Python and the KMT Series.
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LONDON — The 1,000-boat Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant along the River Thames in London, witnessed by millions of television viewers around the world on June 3, saw Delta Sound line the route from Putney Bridge to Tower Bridge and on down to Greenwich, with hangs of Harman’s JBL VTX line arrays.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — dBTechnologies has sold its 20,000th DVA T4 unit since launching the product five years ago. dBTechnologies presented Audiomusica, the company’s Chilean representative, based here, with a Golden DVA T4 award, honoring the rep firm not just for its link to the milestone unit but also for its overall sales success. The commemorative DVA T4 unit has the serial number 20,000 imprinted upon it.
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WILMINGTON, DE — Grace United Methodist Church may have earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, but not on the much-shorter list of Historic Places with Fully Modernized Sound Systems. To remedy that situation, Audiobahn stepped in with a new package of gear that included Entasys Steerable Arrays from Community Professional.
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CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH — NAC Technologies designed a new sound system for the lawn areas of the Blossom Music Center ampitheater. It includes a 10-box NEXO GEO GEO S12 line array system, supplemented with three NEXO Alpha speakers for fill zones, all powered by multiple 4×4 NXAmps.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Edinburgh Lighting & Sound School is using Allen & Heath’s MixWizard3 16:2 as the main training console for its new Production and Technology course, and an iLive digital mixing system was used for training purposes on one of the modules. First year students on the year-long course have just graduated, and all fifteen graduates have received job offers, including one student who has been employed by Autograph Sound, and is currently working on Damon Albarn’s new Dr Dee opera.
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