SAN DIEGO – For their recent North and South American tour legs, The Pixies took along a sound system supplied by LMG Audio Systems with new Lake processing at its heart. Craig Mitchell, account executive for touring sales at LMG, credited the three Lake LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processors for "flexibility and audio quality," and also noted ease of rigging as well.
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LONDON – The first Midas PRO3 live audio system to roll off the production line has been sold to the Rambert Dance Company as its touring console. The PRO3 replaces the company's Midas H1000 – also, as it turns out, the first in production. The sale was made by LMC Audio's sales manager JP Cavaco.
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MIAMI – Jason Derulo recently completed the first leg of his North American tour supported by monitor engineer Billy Flores, who has also worked with Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu and Taio Cruz. Flores mixed monitors on using a Yamaha PM5D.
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OSLO, Norway – Rubicon AS purchased an MLA rig consisting of 20 MLA top boxes, 12 MLX subs, and four MLD Downfill enclosures from their local distributor, em nordic AS. The order follows major system purchases by launch customers Complete Audio of Germany and North Carolina-based Special Event Services (SES).
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SYDNEY – The Sarah McLachlan-led Lilith Tour 2010 suffered a number of setbacks, including the cancellation of a number of shows due to soft ticket sales, but McLachlan and her supporters still managed to raise money for women's causes, and McLachlan pressed on with an abridged, five-stop version of the tour in Australia, joined by Kate Miller-Heidke and the Verses.
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PHOENIX – Nearly 10 years ago, Xavier College Preparatory High School invested in a new, 1,000-seat auditorium for musical productions, assemblies, concerts and fundraisers. Since the beginning, the all-female Catholic high school has relied on Sennheiser for the auditorium's wireless audio infrastructure.
Read More »ELKHART, Indiana – Crown Audio's amplifier manufacturing facility here received a thumbs-up for quality assurance and customer service by the International Organization for Standards (ISO) 9001:2008.
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LONG BEACH, CA – The 1,074-seat Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), has presented a diverse array of productions to audiences over the past 15 years, and its audio system was ready for an upgrade.
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NEW YORK – They may lack the visual prominence of a Manhattan skyscraper or a 74-foot-high Norway spruced decked out with 30,000 LED lights. But the subcompact JBL VerTec line arrays that PRG provided for the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony still played an important role at the event, which featured performances by Mariah Carey, Josh Groban and Susan Boyle and an appearance by the Rockettes from nearby Radio City Music Hall.
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DIMMITT, TX – The congregation of the First Baptist Church is partial to the sanctuary's handcrafted walnut accents, and to the efforts undertaken by Troubadour Solutions and Bag End to get an exact match between the old wood trim and the appearance of the new Gem Series speakers being installed.
Read More »That hedline (yes, that's spelled right. It's an antiquated newsroom thing. We also call the first paragraph of a story a "lede") is a little misleading. It's the end of the year. Of course we are going to look back. It's one of those human nature issues.
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LONDON – The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.
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