MARIAZELL, AUSTRIA — Over 30,000 people flocked to the Austrian town of Mariazell to follow—via giant LED screens—a Mass celebrated by the Pope. BMS Production Group was responsible for the production, commissioned Thomas Millmann's MTR Productions to provide much of the sound reinforcement using systems from Electro-Voice.
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NEW YORK — Already a smash Hollywood movie, the Broadway stage production of Legally Blonde The Musical has received high marks across the board for both cast and crew. Bringing the musical into spotlight is the sound delivered by a powerful system featuring Meyer Sound MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers.
LAS VEGAS – Want to be the envy of all your friends? All you have to do is take five minutes to fill out the… Read More »Get Your Gig in Our Next Issue!
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The QSC WideLine is a full range line array loudspeaker system designed for use in a wide range of venues. The WideLine reportedly features an open, natural sound quality and wide 140° horizontal coverage pattern.
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Allen & Heath launched the ZED-14 stereo mixer, the first in a new range of small format, USB-equipped mixers for live performance.
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BERKELEY, CA — When Steely Dan resumed touring after decades off the road, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker carried their devotion to audio quality with them from the studio to the stage. For their current Heavy Rollers Tour 2007, the band retained Taylor, Mich.-based Thunder Audio to provide a system built around Meyer Sound’s self-powered MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker.
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KITCHENER, ONTARIO — Waterloo Oktoberfest is North America’s largest Bavarian festival, second in the world only to the original Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Kitchener’s Sherwood Systems Inc. has been providing sound reinforcement to each of the festival’s 13 venues for nearly two decades.
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FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Renkus-Heinz was forced to evacuate its factory in Foothill Ranch, Calif., yesterday, October 22, as the wildfires that have devastated large areas of California in the past few days came within 250 yards of the 50,000-square-foot facility.
Read More »NORTHRIDGE, CA — When FOH queried Harman insiders about the collapse of the buyout deal with a couple of heavy hitting Wall Street investment banks, one person told us, "Sid is by no means a dumb guy and may in fact make Harman a ton of money for having them back out." Turns out he was right, as Harman, along with KKR and GS Capital Partners, announced this week a new agreement that will keep the bankers from paying the $225 million termination fee called for in the original contract, instead seeing them make a $400M investment in Harman that they cannot sell or hedge for at least one year.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL — The deadline to purchase tickets for the Parnelli Awards, held during LDI at The Peabody Orlando Hotel, is quickly approaching. Tickets must… Read More »Parnelli Award Dinner Tickets!
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Meyer Sound has announced the debut of the MM-4XP miniature loudspeaker, a self-powered version of the MM-4 miniature wide-range loudspeaker. With a face measuring just four inches square, this compact product is designed for distributed systems where space is at a premium and in which a single light gauge cable can deliver both balanced audio and DC power over a long cable run of up to several hundred feet.
ANDOVER, MA — Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., used a new Martin Audio system during its 229th commencement. The system, provided by Balanced Input, was comprised of Martin Audio W8LM Mini Line arrays W8LMD downfill speakers and WS218X subs for the main coverage, Martin WM05s for fills and Martin LE 1200s for confidence monitors. Ashly PE Series amplifiers provided power for the speakers with onboard DSP under wireless control from a portable laptop.