KNOXVILLE, TN – Waves Audio named Greg Price product specialist. Since getting his start at California's The Record Plant almost four decades ago, Price has served as live sound engineer for acts including Weezer, Foo Fighters, Van Halen, the Cheetah Girls/Hannah Montana, Audioslave, Black Sabbath, Glee's "The TV Show Tour," Rage Against the Machine, Ted Nugent, Kiss, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, ZZ Top, Them Crooked Vultures and many others.
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KNEBWORTH, U.K. – West Midlands-based Stage Audio Services (SAS) has purchased a Midas PRO9 live audio system, which is made its debut at FOH on Slipknot's worldwide festival tour this summer, joining SAS' existing Midas PRO6 on monitors.
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KUALA BELAIT, Brunei – The Brunei Shell Petroleum Company (BSP)'s new Pusat Insani community center, which includes a 1,500-capacity multipurpose hall along with a gymnasium, a VIP lounge, a learning center and other modern amenities, has been equipped with a sound system designed, supplied and installed by Singapore-based Synergy AVL, a distributor of Outline products.
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BOGOR, Indonesia – For Justin Bieber's My World tour performance at the 11,000-capacity Sentul International Convention Center (SICC) near Jakarta, DSS (Don Sistem Suara) Rental Company provided sound reinforcement services including gear from D.A.S. Audio.
Read More »MORAYFIELD, Australia – Absolute Sound & Lighting (ASL), an event production company that opened for business recently, has stocked its rental inventory with gear from dBTechnologies. The new company is led by managing directors Steve Teunis and Camryn Brown.
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BUENA PARK, CA – Hosa Technology named Kyle Lassegard marketing coordinator. Lassegard has served as technical support representative for the company since Sept. 2010 and has a background in studio recording, information technology, sales and marketing communications. He is based at Hosa headquarters.
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LONDON – RG Jones Sound Engineering provided audio gear including a custom-designed Synco sub-bass array and Synco stage monitor systems to the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival. RG Jones supported the festival stage's audio needs for the fourth year running. Additional crew and matching equipment came from Ampco Flashlight of Holland.
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MOUNT MASADA, Israel – Britannia Row Productions provided a Midas XL8 live performance system for an open-air production of Verdi's opera, Aida, as part of the Masada, Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival in June. The performance, where conductor Daniel Oren led the Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir, took place with Mount Masada as a backdrop.
Read More »NASHVILLE – One Systems named Alliance Audio Group (AAG) as its new Southern California representative. AAG is now responsible for sales of One Systems products throughout the region.
Read More »PETALUMA, CA – Panamax/Furman is supporting the Independent Professional Representatives Organization (IPRO) through a new company sales incentive program that pays up to $500 towards IPRO dues or annual conference fees for sales representative firms that achieve their sales target.
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HAMBURG, Germany – Cobra Sound Light designed and installed a new sound system for the 1,033-seat Hauptkirche St. Petri, Hamburg's oldest parish church, using Renkus-Heinz IC Live digitally steerable loudspeakers to meet architectural constraints without compromising on audio quality.
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Returning to Florida June 11-17, with exhibits from June 15-17, InfoComm11 set an attendee record in Orlando, drawing a total 33,000 visitors. It was the second-largest Pro AV trade event ever, topped only by 2008's attendance of 34,600 in Las Vegas. Exhibitors totaled 925, the same as last year, and more than 4,600 attended seminars and workshops.
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