NEW ORLEANS – Spanning seven days, a dozen stages, and drawing a total audience of about 400,000, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is one of the largest live music events in the world. Metairie, LA-based The Sound Source supported two of the stages with JBL VerTec VT4886 subcompact line array elements.
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TEMPE, AZ – A new nightclub, 910 Live, is close to Arizona State University and neighboring Tempe Town Lake, with a stage where, under previous ownership, bands like Weezer, Modest Mouse, Jimmy Eat World and The Specials have performed.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, CA – Harman JBL Synthesis is offering training and certification programs for its ARCOS Adaptive Room Correction and Optimization System, an integrated software and hardware package for setting up a JBL Synthesis complete multichannel audio system.
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SINGAPORE – Symetrix named Hock Thang to a newly-created post, Technical Sales Engineer for Asia. Thang will handle pre- and post-sales technical support for all Symetrix products and support Symetrix' Asian distributors with product training on a regular basis. Thang can be reached at: asiasupport [at] symetrix.co
Read More »ROCHESTER, NY – Lab X Technologies announced that the first shipments of its Titanium 411 1GB Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Ethernet Switch have been delivered to AV manufacturers around the world. Supporting IEEE 802.1 Ethernet AVB, the switch can be used for installed and live sound, including networked line arrays and speaker clusters, remote-networked equipment and on-stage, and FOH applications, among others.
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Music Group named Arie Korpel senior manager for worldwide sales. Korpel has more than 10 years of experience in the consumer electronics market, and comes to Music Group from a post at another loudspeaker manufacturer.
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MANILA, The Philippines – Soundcheck of Manila provided JBL VerTec line array system for Justin Bieber's recent concert at the SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds. The show, part of Bieber's My World tour, drew about 70,000 fans.
Read More »JOHANNESBURG – Gearhouse South Africa recently joined the AV Alliance comprised of 29 companies in 25 different countries. Set up in Europe to meet a request from a global corporation, the AV Alliance companies are independently managed but agree to abide by a comprehensive catalog of qualitative criteria to ensure standards of consistency when supporting events.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Adlib supplied a V-DOSC sound system, DJ set and crew for the recent David Guetta U.K. Tour. Guetta's FOH sound engineer is Hassane Es Siahi, who came onboard last August at the start of a festival tour which was also serviced by Adlib. However, this is the first full DJ set production tour in terms of touring the equipment – Guetta more typically does large one-off gigs at different destinations around the globe, using local productions.
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LONDON – Absolute Radio and smart car wanted to stage an event featuring the pop band Scouting for Girls on the third floor of The Bargehouse exhibition venue at London's Oxo Tower. To bypass noise restrictions, the gig, production-managed by LarMac Live Production, was staged "silently" – each of the 150 guests had headsets and the band members and crew were on IEMs.
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Citing its intuitive user interface, long battery life, wireless and 3G connectivity, light weight, compact size, and resulting popularity among users looking to use the Apple iPad as something more than a high-tech toy, Outline's development team is coming up with more iPad apps that remotely control its gear.
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COLUMBIA, MO – AV integrator Daktronics upgraded the sound system in 68,349-seat Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field, home of the University of Missouri Tigers football team, using a Harman JBL VLA end zone loudspeaker solution wrapped around the Tigers' new scoreboard.
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