HELSINKI, Finland – Depeche Mode's Tour of the Universe is now back in Europe, having travelled the globe since last April with a dual Midas XL8 live performance system for front of house and monitors, playing to audiences of up to 85,000.
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MEXICO CITY and NEW DELHI – Audioco of Mexico City and New-Delhi based Dhawan Electricals Pvt Ltd. both recently purchased Soundcraft Si3 consoles.
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VASTERAS, Sweden – Swedish rental company Music & Lights has joined the L-Acoustics K1/KUDO pilot program and will take delivery of a system this month. The company joins several other rental outfits around the world that are collaborating with the L-Acoustics R&D team to field test the new system.
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NEW YORK – Maryland Sound International (MSI) relied on Powersoft amplifiers to drive multiple speaker arrays and stage monitor systems for New York's biggest party: the New Year's Eve celebration at Times Square.
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PORTLAND, ME – Moonlighting Production Services, LLC recently added one dozen Radian Audio Engineer APEX-1200 low-profile, 12-inch, two-way coaxial stage monitor wedges to its rental inventory and quickly put the gear to work.
Read More »SALT LAKE CITY – dbx Professional Products' Web site has been redesigned with improved navigation and more targeted resources geared toward the markets dbx serves, including installed, portable, tour and studio sound markets.
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MONTREAL – Singer/songwriter Norah Jones is supporting her fourth studio album, The Fall, with a tour and performances on late night TV. The album, produced by Jacquire King, is a rock ‘n' roll departure from Jones' earlier work. But Jones' voice has not changed, and FOH engineer Brett Dicus continues to rely on Neumann gear for vocals and a backline of Sennheiser wired mics and wireless PMs.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – The 2010 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, held at the Alamodome, was the 10th annual East vs. West football match-up. Televised live on NBC, the game featured the top 90 high school football players in the U.S. Clearwing Productions supported the event with audio gear including a Yamaha PM5D-RH digital audio console.
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LAS VEGAS – The recession may have turned some of the high rollers on the Strip into bargain hunters, but not all of the big-spending visions from the mid-2000s got scrapped. CityCenter – a $4 billion project at its June 2006 ground-breaking and almost an $11 billion project at its December 2009 grand opening – stands as the largest privately-funded development in the U.S. The project also required a major investment in audio gear.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – HAS Productions has hired Dave Tennant as director of operations. Tennant started as a monitor engineer in the early 1990s and has worked big gigs including stints as technical director for the U.S. Army Entertainment Division, where he toured entertainment programs for the troops all over the world. He also served as technical director for all four properties owned by Cannery Casino Resorts before moving to HAS.
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Waves Audio is now shipping Vocal Rider, the first of Waves' series of new Mixing tools. Vocal Rider can be used by mixers and recording engineers to automatically ride the levels of vocal tracks, raising and lowering vocal volume.
Read More »KUNGSBACKA, Sweden – The TC Group has announced a restructuring that has resulted in the formation of a new organization known as TC Group International which will operate out of Aarhus in Denmark and Coatbridge, Scotland.
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