LONDON — Stage Electrics has become a UK dealer for the British loudspeaker manufacturer EM Acoustics. Pictured here are, from left, Jamie Gosney, business development manager-audio for Stage Electrics with Ed Kinsella, research and development director for EM Acoustics.
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CHESSINGTON, UK — DiGiCo named Dan Page sales application specialist. Page, who has worked for four years in the company’s R&D department, will be supporting the existing sales team of Ian Staddon, Tim Shaxson and James ‘Digger’ Bradley.
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LOS ANGELES — Facing RF interference issues from the LED surface used as a stage for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rat Sound tinkered with a variety of fixes, which improved the situation but did not eliminate the problem. Finally the crew opted to switch to a Shure PSM 1000 system for IEMs.
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DUBLIN — Singer-songwriter Imelda May and her FOH engineer, Trevor Gilligan, have opted for a Sennheiser e 965 for the artist’s vocals.
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LONG BEACH, CA — On the last day of his April visit to California, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama spoke about “Peace of Mind in Troubled Times” to an audience of more than 10,000 at the Long Beach Arena. PRG Audio of Sun Valley, CA deployed a Meyer Sound system comprised largely of MICA and M2D line array loudspeakers.
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FRISCO, TX — Gemini Light Sound & Video provided production gear for the annual EdgeFest one-day rock festival at 30,000-capacity FC Dallas Stadium here in late April, using Powersoft K2 and K3 amplifiers to power the main stage PA system. It was the sound and lighting company’s fifth year of supporting the event.
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MONTREAL — Michael Golden, executive vice president of JAM Industries, VP of Erikson Music/Korg Canada and son of JAM Industries founder Marty Golden, passed away May 11 after a two-year battle with cancer. He had just turned 50 in February.
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DUBAI — Outline has named the Professional Projects Division (PPD) of Oasis Enterprises, the electronics-oriented subsidiary of the Al Shirawi Group of Companies, as its distributor based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Outline CEO Giorgio Biffi and Oasis Enterprises/PPD GM Basel As Aref announced the new distribution partnership.
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PESA expanded its PESA PRO line of professional AV routers with the new PRO-3GSDI-1616 Routing Switcher. It supports all common SMPTE and ITU standard serial digital video signals, as well as embedded audio and other ancillary data required for HD-SDI and DVB/ASI sources.
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COLUMBIA, MD — At the Merriweather Post Pavilion within Symphony Woods here, Sweetgreen restaurant group hosted an all-day music festival featuring Avicii, Kid Cudi, The Shins, Explosions in the Sky, Fitz and the Tantrums, A$AP Rocky, Fun, Delta Spirit, Zola Jesus others. Called the Sweetlife Music and Food Festival, the event was supported by MHA Audio, which relied upon their Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) audio system for sound reinforcement.
Read More »BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound is offering the company’s first live webinars on AVB (audio video bridging), the non-proprietary IEEE AV networking standards built upon the ubiquitous Ethernet protocols. The newest addition to the Meyer Sound worldwide education program, these webinars will be led by John McMahon, executive director, digital products. Three have been set for June 5, 2012.
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TAMPA, FL — Magnum Audio Group recently provided new sound systems for three sports venues at the University of South Florida (USF): a 4,500-seat baseball stadium, a 1,500-seat softball stadium and a 750-seat soccer stadium. Magnum’s Randi Crooks equipped the two larger venues with Community Pro’s WET W2-2W8, R1-66 and R.5-99 loudspeakers along with R.5SUB subwoofers. For the smaller soccer stadium, just the R1-66 and R.5-99 loudspeakers did the trick.
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