LONDON – Sound engineer Randy Meullier, who is using a Soundcraft Vi6 for the U.K. and European legs of Alice Cooper's Theater of Death tour, credited Pete Russell at SSE Audio Group for giving him access to his first-choice console.
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HITACHINAKA, Japan – The Rock in Japan concert, produced by Rockin' On publisher Keiichi Shibuya, was held for the 10th year in 2009. More than 165,000 attendees came to Hitachi Beach Park to hear performances by some 150 Japanese artists, including Eikichi Yazawa, Unicorn, Ulfuls and Perfume.
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LONDON – Florence and the Machine used a combined iLive FOH and monitor system on its European tour this fall, which included dates in the U.K., Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Holland and Austria. iLive was subsequently specified on dates in the U.S. and Canada, and rented from SRD Systems in Kent by management production company, Britannia Row, for a performance as part of the Electric Proms at Camden's Roundhouse.
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POTTERS BAR, U.K. – Soundcraft Studer recently produced and tested the first Studer Vista large-format consoles on its new U.K. production line, which has taken on manufacturing for Vista, OnAir 3000 and Router production formerly done in the Studer Regensdorf facility near Zurich in Switzerland.
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LONDON – The new self-powered Meyer Sound UP-4XP loudspeaker recently made its debut at the Royal Albert Hall's renovated Elgar Room. The UP-4XP is noted for combining the advantages of a remote DC power supply and the acoustic power output of a three-way self-powered system.
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OSLO – In preparation for President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech and related music events, the sound system at Oslo City Hall was upgraded with Allen & Heath digital mixing and audio distribution systems and a Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC32 Digitally Steerable Array system.
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Some shows are the stuff of legend. While the advent of YouTube has made it possible for a wide audience to get a small glimpse of the scale of these shows, it's impossible to truly appreciate the behind-the-scenes complexity of today's largest productions without witnessing them in person.
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BERKELEY, CA – The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse is a haven for folk, traditional, and roots music and a local landmark of 41 years. Since 1988, Meyer Sound gear has been used at the venue. When the Freight relocated into an 18,000-square-foot eco-friendly building this year, Meyer Sound continued to work with its staff as well as the project teams involved, from sound system design through installation.
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SAINT-HERBLAIN, France – Terre de Son Le Mans provided an RCF audio system for the new multi-purpose arena for the city of La Chapelle St Herblain, near Le Mans.
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THOMASTON, CT – The parishioners of St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church, a 100-year-old stone church, took the advice of Pascom Sound Inc. to invest in a Symetrix Automix Matrix 780 to give their existing audio components a "better-than-new" sound, saving the cost of a total system overhaul.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Shure president and CEO Sandy LaMantia recently cheered on the efforts of Representative Shelley Berkley (D-NV) to help protect several classes of wireless microphone users from possible interference resulting from the use of new devices in radio frequencies used by wireless microphone systems and known as the "white spaces."
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DETROIT – PRG recently invested in a comprehensive stock of RockNet digital audio network gear from Riedel Communications, including a set of RockNet input, output and mixing console modules as well as inline repeaters and fiber optic connections, with plans to first use the new gear at the North American International Auto Show.
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