BERGAMO, Italy – Sound Services by Angelo Pelliccioli provided D.A.S. gear to upgrade the sound reinforcement at the 24,726-seat Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, home stadium for the Atalanta and Albinoleffe soccer teams. The stadium, which opened to the public in 1928, encompasses a field that is 120 meters long and 70 meters wide with grandstand seating that is only partially covered.
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OSLO – After a 28-year career, Norwegian trio A-ha have decided to split. For their farewell tour, Capital Sound provided two DiGiCo consoles and a full complement of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitoring systems.
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NEW YORK – Although many people consider Black Friday to be the official start of the Christmas frenzy, native New Yorkers will likely tell you that the holiday season doesn't truly kick off until the massive Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza has been lit.
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HAMBURG, Germany – PRG Germany is supporting a touring replica of Abba's 1979 performance at London's Wembley Arena called ABBA – The Concert performed by AbbAgain. The tour features more than a dozen musicians and 150 minutes of Abba songs, and to distribute audio at the various tour locations, the show is using a RockNet digital audio network from Riedel Communications.
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ANAHEIM, CA – Along with the challenge of opening up five satellite campuses at the same time right before Christmas, Saddleback Church suddenly had a staggering need for custom cases. The organization is renting schools for Sunday services and religious education, so these churches had to roll in and out 52 Sundays a year.
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DENVER and VERONA, Italy – Dowlen Sound Inc. and Britannia Row Productions put the new Outline GTO large format line array through its paces, respectively, at the Mile High Music Festival and with the final leg of Peter Gabriel's New Blood tour in Europe.
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MIAMI, FL – Proel America named industry veteran Ed Simeone V.P of Sales for North America. He will be responsible for all sales and marketing efforts in The U.S. and Canada for Proel, and will manage their independent sales rep force.
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WEDEMARK, Germany – The Supervisory Board for Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG recently approved a new global organizational structure separately targeting consumer electronics, professional systems and installed sound.
Read More »FRANKFURT and HAMBURG, Germany – Sirius Showequipment AG in Frankfurt and Amptown-Verleih GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg recently announced that they had joined forces in Sept. 2010. The two companies also announced plans to open an office and warehouse location in Munich in early 2011.
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LONDON – For Paul Weller's recent tour across the U.K. and Ireland, Andrew Jones, Weller's FOH engineer, and tech support Mike Savage used a Midas XL8 FOH supplied by Canegreen/SSE.
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD and LATHROP, CA – After operating in southern California for more than 20 years, US Audio and Lighting added an office in Lathrop , CA earlier this year, and, along with that expansion, added four L-Acoustics LA-RAK touring racks, each with three LA8 amplified controllers, to its inventory of gear.
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XTA's iCore software package was developed to provide the interface for sister company MC² Audio's Ti Series and XTA's DC1048 integrated audio management system. XTA has now extended the iCore2 package to support all 4Series products. The company has also added new features to simplify live sound and installed operating systems, with enhancements to parameter linking, custom control panels, application auto-update and wireless kit compatibility.
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